A group of six Democratic lawmakers is demanding more details from the Air Force as to how the service is siphoning funding from a nuclear missile modernization program to pay for retrofits for a luxury jet, gifted to the Trump administration by Qatar, to make it usable as Air Force One. In a letter sent Wednesday…
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he would not initiate trade talks with President Trump after U.S. tariffs on Brazilian goods spiked to 50 percent on Wednesday. “The day my intuition says Trump is ready to talk, I won’t hesitate to call him,” Lula told Reuters from his presidential residence. “But today my…
A group of Democrats is calling for a congressional hearing with the victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, who they argue have firsthand accounts that “may not be sufficiently represented in the Department of Justice’s records.” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, led a group of…
President Trump on Thursday slammed The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board for routinely criticizing his trade policy with “China-centric” rhetoric. “The reason that The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is always negative on ‘TRUMP,’ and the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars we’re bringing into our Country through Tariffs, numbers that the U.S.A. has never seen…
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Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Questions loom over potential Trump-Putin summit President Trump is eyeing a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine, a potential meeting that carries huge risks and possible…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday upped the reward it’s offering for information that leads to the arrest of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro to $50 million. “He is one of the largest narco traffickers in the world and a threat to our national security. Therefore, we’ve doubled his reward to $50 million,” Attorney General…
A court on Thursday declined to issue an immediate restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) requested by a woman who accused him of harassing and threatening her after their break-up, according to a court document reviewed by The Hill, but ordered both Mills and the woman to appear at a hearing later in the…
Most states saw premiums fall in the first half of 2025, but a new analysis suggests that’s unlikely to continue.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has launched an investigation into whether former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D-Texas) political group is breaking laws by allegedly “bankrolling” the out-of-state travel of Democrats attempting to stop the passage of the newly proposed GOP-favored congressional maps. Paxton, in a Wednesday press release, said Powered by People, a group led by O’Rourke,…
