Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story A Gaza ceasefire agreement in next 2 weeks? The US is hopeful The Biden administration says it is still hoping to secure a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in its final two weeks in the White House....
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked his followers on the social platform X, which he owns, if the U.S. “should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.” “America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government,” Musk captioned a post with a poll on X highlighted by Mediaite, with users able...
President-elect Trump will be on Capitol Hill on Wednesday at the invitation of Senate Republican leadership, according to three sources familiar with the invitation. GOP leaders haven’t released the time of the meeting, but Trump has met with Republican senators at their weekly Tuesday Republican policy lunch meeting in the past. Senate Republican Whip John...
It was routine — and that was the point. Congress certified President-elect Trump’s election victory in a smooth and relatively brief ceremony Monday. The normalcy of the occasion was a juxtapositional reminder of the events of four years before, when a mob laid siege to the Capitol, coming ominously close to keeping Trump in power...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story GOP senator says Trump pick RFK Jr. ‘wrong’ on vaccines Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), the incoming chair of the Senate HELP Committee, said Sunday that President-elect Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary is ‘wrong’ when...
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO and President Dana White will join Meta’s board of directors, the social media company announced Monday. White is part of a trio of new additions to the Meta board, alongside John Elkann, CEO of Exor and chair of Stellantis and Ferrari, and tech investor Charlie Songhurst. “Dana, John and Charlie...
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said a bill empowering local authorities to take down drones is a “number one” priority in the next Congress. In an interview on Friday that he shared Monday, Green said federal agencies were not being transparent on the issue of drones, criticism that follows...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Musk extends political reach to UK, Germany Elon Musk is seeking to wield the power of his social media network to boost far-right political movements in the United Kingdom and Germany, after becoming a major backer of President-elect Trump in November’s election....
President-elect Trump said that he plans to visit Greenland and move on plans to buy the country after a resident asked him to "buy us" and free the country from Denmark.