Hillary Clinton reacted to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s recent announcement that he had secured an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling the former Fox News pundit a “useful idiot” In an interview with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, the former first lady appeared unsurprised by the news and highlighted comments made previously by Carlson about the...

Former national security adviser John Bolton said he thinks former President Trump is “chickening out” by not making an appearance Thursday at the Supreme Court as it hears arguments over his ballot eligibility. Trump, who appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, will be at Mar-a-Lago in Florida before traveling Thursday to Nevada, CNN reported....

Lawyers representing former President Trump and the New York attorney general’s office both urged a New York judge Wednesday to disregard reports that a witness committed perjury while testifying, as the judge weighs his ruling in the case. The New York Times reported last week that Allen Weisselberg, ex-Trump Organization chief financial officer and...

Uber posted its first full-year profit since going public in 2019, marking the first time the ride-hailing company has earned money from its operations. The company on Wednesday posted a net income of $1.43 billion in the fourth quarter, after recovering a $1 billion tailwind from investments, Uber confirmed in a release. This is a...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon}   Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story US targets senior Iranian-backed militia official in Iraq The U.S. said Wednesday it killed a senior commander in Iraq with the Iranian-backed militia group Kata’ib Hezbollah who was involved in planning attacks on American troops....

President Biden on Wednesday said Republicans threw Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) "overboard" after torpedoing a border security bill the Oklahoma Republican helped craft. “They really threw the man overboard," Biden told donors at a New York City fundraiser. The president echoed comments from a day earlier, when he argued former President Trump was to blame...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Wednesday slammed Senate Republicans over the attempted border deal, saying it was “stupid” for them to try to work with Democrats. Gingrich appeared on an episode of the "Cats & Cosby Show" hosted by John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby, where he said he had just recorded a podcast...

Democrats are looking to separate Ukraine aid from the Senate border deal that’s now in tatters and move quickly on funding for the embattled country, a plan that will once again come up against a skeptical Republican-led House. The Senate on Tuesday shifted away from the border and immigration package and toward approving a separate...

Special counsel Robert Hur has concluded his investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified records in his prior government posts, Attorney General Merrick Garland informed lawmakers in a letter Wednesday. The letter from Garland says nothing about the conclusion Hur reached, but arrives amid reporting that the special counsel is expected to announce the findings...

A Republican running for Missouri secretary of state on Tuesday posted a campaign video of herself lighting LGBTQ-inclusive books on fire to underscore her pledge to "burn" such books. Valentina Gomez, appearing with a flamethrower in hand, said in the video posted to various social media platforms, "This is what I will do to the...