National security spokesman John Kirby on Thursday said that the White House doesn’t regret including Ukraine aid in the package with funding for border security, a day after Senate Republicans blocked the supplemental funding bill. Kirby said “no” when asked if there is any second guessing inside the White House about the decision to lump...
Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) announced on Thursday that she won’t seek reelection to her U.S. House seat in 2024 under new “egregiously gerrymandered” congressional maps in North Carolina. “I would love nothing more than to continue representing our community in Congress. Unfortunately, the egregiously gerrymandered maps do not make this race competitive, and I cannot...
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The Senate health committee will hold a hearing next week on the diabetes epidemic in the U.S., committee chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said. Sanders, who earlier this year interrogated drug manufacturers about the high cost of insulin, told The Hill the hearing will focus broadly on the underlying causes of the rise in diabetes,...
A compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) negotiators in the House and Senate agreed on does not include a number of controversial amendments criticized as attacks against the LGBTQ community. House Republicans, who passed the amendments in July, agreed to drop them from the annual defense policy bill, according to an updated draft released Thursday. The...
A former executive who worked under Elon Musk after he purchased Twitter filed a lawsuit against the tech billionaire, claiming he was fired for raising concerns about security issues on the platform now known as X. Alan Rosa, the former head of Twitter's global information security, filed the suit in a New Jersey federal court...
A deputy U.S. marshal was charged Thursday with entering an aircraft while drunk after he was arrested in London over allegations of misconduct while on a flight from New York, according to local authorities. Michael Brereton, 39, was arrested Wednesday upon landing at Heathrow Airport in London after a flight crew alerted officers of an...
President Biden on Thursday took aim at former President Trump's travel ban policies, marking the eighth anniversary of the so-called "Muslim ban" pushed by Trump in the 2016 election. Trump released the proposal in December 2015, when he was vying for the Republican presidential nomination, calling “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United...
A memo written by the House Armed Services Committee is being sent around to Republican lawmakers touting conservative policy wins in the National Defense Authorization Act.