Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Key takeaways from Israel’s calibrated strike on Iran Early Friday the Israeli military struck near a major air base and nuclear site in Iran, in what appeared to be its first military response to Tehran’s...
Contractors for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cut access to tests for transplant patients that could show early signs of organ rejection despite expert physicians advising the opposite, a new report has found. The Health Equity in Transplantation Coalition (HEiTC) announced Friday that a Freedom of Information Act request found that Medicare...
Presented by AFPM — It will block off oil and gas drilling on 13m acres in the Western Arctic {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden administration bars drilling on millions of Alaskan acres The Biden administration is restricting drilling on millions of acres of government-owned lands in Alaska —...
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk spoke out against the effort to ban TikTok in the U.S., saying it would be in conflict with the First Amendment and it is “not what America stands for.” Musk added that while the ban would likely benefit social media platform X — which he purchased in October 2022 —...
Americans are split on whether former President Trump will be convicted in his New York hush money case, according to a poll released Friday. The Economist/YouGov poll found that 24 percent of Americans think the former president is going to be convicted of a crime in the case, 36 percent said they don’t think the...
Leaders within the Congressional Black Caucus threw their support behind Democratic candidate Adam Hollier on Friday in Detroit's primary election in the hopes of ousting Democratic incumbent Shri Thanedar. CBC chair Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and former chair Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) joined a growing list of Democrats to back Hollier, who has already received...
A “30 Rock” actor said his “heart goes out” to students at a middle school in Pennsylvania after a scheduled event with him was canceled by the local school board. Maulik Pancholy, who is openly gay, said in a Thursday Instagram post he “learned via social media that the school board of the Cumberland Valley...
The New York attorney general's office has asked a judge to void the $175 million bond former President Trump secured to put off paying the larger monetary damage award in his civil fraud case. State lawyers said in court filings Friday that the former president and his co-defendants — the Trump Organization and its top...
Votes are almost in from factory workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee deciding whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW), an election that could signal more momentum in organized labor following a year of high-profile strikes and major contractual wins for workers. The vote at the Chattanooga plant is a direct challenge to...