Prosecutors dove straight into the seamy details of the hush-money case against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, getting porn star Stormy Daniels to testify about an alleged sexual encounter in a Lake Tahoe suite in 2006 and efforts to sell her story before the presidential election a decade later.
A Republican House member filed a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar Tuesday after she said some U.S. Jewish college students were "pro-genocide."
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden 's handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer's Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection campaign.
Back in the Obama era, Matt Damon starred in and kind of directed an anti-fracking movie called Promised Land. This movie was funded in part by the government of Abu Dhabi, one of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi’s government is one of the leading producers of oil and gas. This makes perfect sense. A […]
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) has won the Republican nomination for another term in the House, fending off a challenge from the right, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Spartz, who has represented Indiana’s 5th Congressional District since 2021, initially announced in 2023 that she would not run for reelection but later changed her...
{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story As Israel chokes off Rafah, US scrambles to salvage cease-fire talks The White House on Tuesday pushed to finalize a cease-fire agreement that would pause fighting in Gaza, even as Israel carried out a...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Tuesday doubled down on his support for Israel shortly after the nation's forces seized control of Gaza's Rafah border crossing, where more than 1 million civilians are being housed amid the ongoing war. Asked on Fox News if he supports Israel going into Rafah, Fetterman said, "Well, I follow Israel...
Columbia Law Dean Gillian Lester backed the school's graduates Tuesday after a group of conservative judges said they wouldn’t hire them following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests on the campus. Lester said in a statement that Columbia Law graduates are “consistently sought out by leading employers in the private and public sectors, including the judiciary,” Reuters...
The Senate’s push to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is coming down to the wire this week as they struggle to strike a time agreement and try to avoid a lapse of the program ahead of Friday’s deadline. Top senators said that while progress had been made toward extending the FAA’s authority for five...
Israel’s push into Rafah and takeover of a key border crossing Tuesday has ignited international debate and condemnation as roughly 1.4 million sheltering civilians in the southern Gaza city were caught in the crosshairs of potential invasion. Israel late Monday began “targeted strikes” in eastern Rafah before seizing control of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing,...