A federal judge suggested Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new policy requiring troops to meet testosterone levels -- and delivering testosterone replacement therapy -- could undercut the rationale behind the department's restrictions on trans troops.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has climbed into the pole position in the early jockeying for the 2028 New Hampshire Democratic primary sweepstakes.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will try to advance a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal Wednesday, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities over Democratic objections as a GOP priority before the midterm elections.

A special prosecutor on Wednesday dismissed felony criminal charges against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who was indicted on accusations of threatening the jobs of New Orleans officials who fought a Republican-led overhaul of courts in the heavily Democratic city.

Democrats and liberal media have said that evidence of voter fraud, specifically fraud committed by noncitizens, is essentially nonexistent. Now, New Jersey’s Democratic governor has effectively killed that talking point. Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Tuesday that she had removed 6,600 voters from the state’s voter rolls. Those voters were nonresidents who applied for driver’s licenses and […]

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{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story White House expands electricity rate pledge The White House is expanding a voluntary pledge aimed at mitigating the electricity cost impacts of data centers to utilities and state governors. © AP Photo/George Walker IV, File A White House official confirmed to The Hill Wednesday...

President Trump is mulling over launching military strikes on an al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing current and former U.S. officials familiar with the deliberations. The Post noted that there is disagreement among top U.S. officials about going forward with an attack, with the National Security Council's senior director for counterterrorism, Sebastian...

The number of Senate-confirmed officials who have left their roles in the Trump administration is more than double the amount of departures at this point of President Trump’s first term, according to a new analysis from the Partnership for Public Service. Over the last 18 months, 27 such officials have left their posts, equating to...

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story OpenAI says model hacked another AI company OpenAI said one of its artificial intelligence systems hacked into another AI company’s servers on its own during internal testing, in what the ChatGPT maker described as an “unprecedented cyber incident.” © Michael Dwyer, Associated Press “We had a significant security...