Sixty-three years later, a new Cuban Missile Crisis is in the making. Team Trump is building up a vast array of military forces in the Caribbean. Significantly, more than 10 percent of the U.S. naval fleet is either already on station or, as with the U.S.S. Gerald Ford strike group and U.S.S. Gravely guided-missile destroyer, headed toward...

Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Trump hails 'truly great' Xi meeting ▪ Signs of life on ending shutdown ▪ MTG irks Republican colleagues ▪ Far-right gets setback in Dutch elections President Trump said he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on a wide range of subjects during their much-anticipated meeting Thursday, including...

A former FBI special agent says the bureau uses its own review system to intimidate whistleblowers and bury complaints.

New Jersey's tight gubernatorial race between Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli heats up as early voting reaches 800,000 ballots with Election Day approaching.

Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican from the state of Florida, stated that he plans to field a proposal to bar noncitizens from getting welfare

The tobacco industry's influence on public health policymaking in the U.S. is growing according to the latest report by the anti-smoking organization Action on Smoking & Health (ASH). ASH's Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2025, provided first to The Hill, found that the U.S. scored an 89 out of 100 on the Global Tobacco Industry Interference...

The Senate voted Wednesday to terminate the emergency powers that President Trump used to impose tariffs on products from Canada, a neighbor and major trading partner.