House Speaker Mike Johnson is imploring his fellow Republicans to stop venting their frustrations in public and bring their complaints to him directly.
The U.S. military blew up another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing four male “narco-terrorists" and continuing its lethal counternarcotics campaign as scrutiny over the Trump administration’s early September operation intensifies. The boat on Thursday was struck in international waters and was operated by a designated terrorist organization, U.S. Southern Command...
A graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on leave after giving a student a failing grade for rejecting the notion that someone's identity can fall outside of the two genders assigned at birth. Samantha Fulnecky, 20, received zero points out of 25 total on a 650-word essay assignment requiring students to respond...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story New details on boat strike on survivors after Navy commander briefs Congress Navy Adm. Frank Bradley appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday to brief bipartisan lawmakers in both chambers on the details of a September attack...
The Justice Department has failed to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) after its initial case against her was dismissed, a blunder for prosecutors who have trained their sights on the adversary of President Trump. Justice Department officials sought to proceed with a fresh case against James, despite vowing at first to appeal the dismissal, after a...
Senate Democrats sent a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Thursday that called the Education Department's breakup of some of its programs for students and their families "illegal." "Your brazen attempt to dismantle the Department by transferring to other federal agencies complex and foundational responsibilities that Congress specifically charged to the Department — including...
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on Wednesday said Americans don’t "care very much” about the controversy involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders regarding strikes on a boat in the Caribbean in September. “I frankly don't think that Americans care very much about what is being reported with regard to Secretary Hegseth. I also think that the...