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...
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer presented Wednesday an $80.7 billion budget focusing on education spending hikes, free community college and free preschool.