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Miranda Devine: New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ senior leadership used to shutdown any Hunter Biden laptop discussion

The conversations, withheld by the FBI under Director Chris Wray, show that senior leadership issued an internal “gag order” on the laptop. 

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs on Canada in bid to roll back presidential emergency powers

Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.

Why voter ID won in Wisconsin

Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]

Booker says he hoped floor speech would be something that ‘would unify our caucus’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...

Vance, Harris seen as top 2028 White House contenders

Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...

Trump reverses with tariff exemptions

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story  Trump reverses on Canada, Mexico tariffs with exemptions President Trump, in his latest reversal on tariffs, signed off on exemptions for imports from Canada and Mexico that are covered under a 2020 North American trade agreement....

Ontario will tariff electricity going to 3 US states on Monday, premier says

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said three states would face tariffs on electricity after a week of President Trump’s swipes at Canada with fluctuating trade policies. “I love Americans. It's been 20 years of my life. But in saying that, no, we're going to put a 25 percent tariff on electricity coming from Ontario to Michigan,...

New Zealand fires top diplomat in London over Trump remarks

New Zealand's top diplomat in the United Kingdom was fired after making comments about President Trump in London earlier this week. New Zealand's high commissioner to the U.K., Phil Goff, was terminated from his role after questioning Trump's knowledge of history during an event hosted by an international affairs think tank, Chatham House, on Tuesday. ...

Trump: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Rachel Maddow ‘should be forced to resign’

President Trump said MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow “should be forced to resign” while criticizing the network for low show ratings. “Worse than CNN is ‘MS-DNC,’ which is the worst. And the good news is very few people watch them anymore,” he told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office. “They have lost such...

Trump faces new economic uncertainties amid trade battles

President Trump is facing slumping consumer confidence and deepening concern among business leaders ahead of the first jobs report of his new administration. Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report. But tumbling markets in the...

Judge orders release of some foreign aid payments by Monday

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to release some foreign aid payments by Monday evening to U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors and nonprofits who challenged the freeze, a decision he called the “first concrete step” toward compliance with his previous order to resume existing foreign aid contracts. U.S. District...

Trump signs order targeting law firm Perkins Coie

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at stripping security clearances and government ties to Perkins Coie, a major law firm that did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign. The order, which Trump signed in the Oval Office, directs the attorney general and director of national intelligence to “immediately take steps consistent...

Trump eyes chemical safety rule rewrite

Click for more from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump eyes chemical safety rule rewrite The Trump administration will consider rolling back Biden-era regulations that increased safeguards for workers at chemical plants, announcing the plans Thursday. © Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP The Trump administration asked a...

AI chatbots infected with Russian disinformation: Study

The world’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are infected with Russian disinformation, according to a new study that was published Thursday.  The research done by the news monitoring service NewsGuard found that the Moscow-based disinformation network dubbed “Pravda” — which is Russian for “truth” — has been spreading falsehoods on the internet, including attempts...

GOP signals CHIPS Act not going anywhere

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Trump's call to repeal CHIPS Act faces GOP scrutiny Republican lawmakers say President Trump's call for Congress to "get rid of" the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act will be dead on arrival on Capitol Hill. © Greg Nash Republican senators said they’re...

Dems draft resolution to condemn GOP leaders over ‘illegal immigrant’ smear against Hispanic Caucus chair

House Democrats have drafted a resolution to condemn Republican leaders after the GOP’s campaign arm falsely portrayed a Hispanic lawmaker as an “illegal immigrant.” Led by Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), the resolution denounces the attack on Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) by the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) as a “vile” and “xenophobic” smear. It seeks...

Second measles death reported as outbreak grows in Southwest

A second person has died from measles as the outbreak of the disease in Texas and New Mexico continues to grow, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. The person was unvaccinated and a resident of Lea County, N.M., where at least 10 cases of the disease have been reported. It lies just across...

Evening Report — Democrats adrift as Trump charges ahead

Presented by National Council on Aging {beacon} Evening Report TRUMP FIRST 100 DAYS © Greg Nash Democrats seek winning message to combat Trump DEMOCRATS ARE SCRAMBLING to identify new leaders and a message that resonates with the public as President Trump and his GOP allies charge ahead with his sweeping agenda. Trump’s swift upending...

US, Ukraine planning peace talks in Saudi Arabia

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story US, Ukraine planning peace talks in Saudi Arabia U.S. and Ukrainian officials are looking to set up a meeting next week in Saudi Arabia aimed at structuring the framework for a ceasefire with Russia and establishing...

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