Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} View Online Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Pentagon report says no evidence of alien visits A new Pentagon report says there is “no evidence” the U.S. government or any private companies have reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology, nor are there any confirmed sightings...
Sam Altman, the CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, was reinstated to its board of directors following an investigation Friday. “We have unanimously concluded that Sam and [president of OpenAI Greg Brockman] are the right leaders for OpenAI,” Bret Taylor, chair of the OpenAI board, said in a Friday blog post. Altman was fired...
Senators on Friday passed a bill to fund a slew of government agencies for the rest of fiscal year 2024, sending the measure to President Biden’s desk hours before a shutdown deadline after Congress has struggled for months to approve its full-year spending bills. The Senate voted 75-22 to pass the six-bill, $460 billion package on...
NewsNation launched "The Hill Sunday," a new weekend public affairs show, last week that is hosted by political editor Chris Stirewalt. Stirewalt, a former editor at Fox News, said in a recent interview with The Hill that his new time slot “comes with a promise to the audience that you’re going to provide something that...
Presented by Panasonic — {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden says at SOTU he wants to triple Climate Corps President Biden said he plans to triple the size of the American Climate Corps jobs program by the end of the decade during his State of the Union Speech. ...
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that law enforcement must have a warrant prior to using aircraft and binoculars or cameras with zoom lenses to surveil areas around homes. The decision by Alaska’s high court explains that some argue that "because small airplane travel is so common in Alaska, and because any passenger might peer...
A long-awaited Pentagon report on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) concluded Friday that there is no evidence the U.S. has reverse-engineered alien spacecraft and rebutted claims that Washington is hiding off-world technology or extraterrestrial biological material. The first volume of an investigation from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), called the Historical Record Report, debunks claims...
The Senate passed several appropriations bills on Friday to avoid a government shutdown, and after President Biden's State of the Union address the night before.