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Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story  TSA breaks screening records with holiday rush With the government shutdown over, airports handled a record-breaking surge of holiday travel, per new data. © AP The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened more than 3.13 million people at...

{beacon} Technology   The Big Story AI fights split Republicans in high-stakes NDAA talks A battle among Republican lawmakers over the future of U.S. AI policy is threatening to hold up a must-pass annual Defense bill. © Mariam Zuhaib, Associated Press Lawmakers are wrestling over whether to halt state AI regulations and other thorny AI...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump to reconsider part of silica dust rule The Trump administration says it will reconsider aspects of a rule that aims to protect miners from exposure to harmful silica dust on the job. © File AP Photo/Leah Willingham In a court filing last week,...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened more than 3.13 million people at U.S. airports on Sunday, a new single-day record. TSA announced the milestone Monday on the social platform X. The mark surpassed the previous high of more than 3.09 million, set on June 22. Each of the top 10 busiest days occurred in the...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing growing pressure over a Washington Post report that he ordered the military to "kill everybody" in a boat strike in the Caribbean, with Democrats alleging a potential war crime and President Trump saying he wouldn't have ordered a second strike. The Post reported Friday that Hegseth issued an order to “kill...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story HHS's latest vaccine policy upheaval A leaked memo from a top FDA vaccine regulator late last week laid out much stricter federal oversight of vaccines. An upcoming meeting of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked federal advisory panel later this week could shake up vaccine...

There is an increasing apprehension among service members that they may be asked to carry out an illegal order, amid reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered troops to “kill everybody” in a boat strike in September. The concerns, reflected in an uptick in calls to the Orders Project — which provides free legal advice to military personnel...

Venezuela halts deportation flights as Trump escalates military pressure on Maduro government, ending key cooperation between Washington and Caracas.

An illegal alien allegedly responsible for a fatal crash that killed two in Oregon was given a commercial driver’s license by California under Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, according to DHS.