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Two Chinese citizens were charged with a conspiracy and smuggling of a fungus that officials said is a "dangerous biological pathogen" into the United States.  Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, were charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the country, false statements and visa fraud on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for...

A Texas man was arrested for allegedly trespassing at Mar-a-Lago early morning on Tuesday, telling law enforcement that he wanted to "spread the gospel" to President Trump and marry the commander-in-chief's granddaughter.  Anthony Thomas Reyes, 23, was arrested by the Palm Beach Police Department for "unlawfully entering" the Mar-a-Lago Club, Trump's resort in Palm Beach,...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Tuesday blasted the megabill featuring President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities and backed tech billionaire Elon Musk’s recent comments on it. In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” host Blake Burman brought up an earlier post from Musk on the social platform X in which he called the legislation...

The Army has hit its annual recruiting goal of 61,000 new active duty soldiers, four months ahead of the end of fiscal 2025 in September, the service announced Tuesday. The Army said the goal - 10 percent higher than the 55,000 recruits it sought last year - “represents a significant turning point for the Army...

Miles Taylor, a former deputy chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration who wrote an op-ed criticizing President Trump, said the president is creating a "modern blacklist." "I think he wants to create a modern blacklist and have that blacklist ruin people's lives," Taylor responded when asked what...

A South Florida meteorologist warned viewers that National Weather Service (NWS) shortages will impact his forecasts. In a segment that aired Tuesday on WTVJ, a local NBC television station, meteorologist John Morales talked about previous coverage of a hurricane in 2019, saying, “confidently, I went on TV, and I told you, ‘It’s going to turn....

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sparred with a legal professor during a Tuesday congressional hearing over nationwide injunctions issued by district court judges against President Trump’s administration. Hawley, during the Senate Judiciary joint subcommittee hearing, presented a graph showing that the number of injunctions issued against Trump is far higher than other recent U.S. presidents.  “You...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Hegseth orders Harvey Milk's name stripped from ship amid Pride Month Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Navy to rename an oil ship named after gay rights activist Harvey Milk, a move that pointedly comes at the start...

Presented by Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding — The Food and Drug Administration commissioner has committed to reviewing the abortion drug mifepristone after previously stating he had no plans to “take action” on the drug.   {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story FDA commissioner promises to investigate mifepristone Food and Drug Administration...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story  Musk blasts Trump's big bill after leaving White House Billionaire Elon Musk ramped up his criticism of the megabill of President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities, calling the legislation a “disgusting abomination.” © The Associated Press...

The Florida Board of Governors rejected Santa Ono to serve as the president of the University of Florida on Tuesday amid backlash from conservatives over Ono’s past stances on diversity, equity and inclusion on (DEI) college campuses. The board, which oversees the state’s university system, voted 10-6 to block the former University of Michigan president...

Elon Musk dropped a rhetorical bomb on President Trump’s plans to pass a massive budget bill on Tuesday. Musk, the world’s richest man, excoriated legislation that Trump calls big and beautiful as “a disgusting abomination.” He also called the legislation “outrageous” and “pork-filled.” Referring to members of the House who had passed the bill and...

{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story  What to know about the FTC-Meta trial The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Meta have wrapped up a six-week trial over the Facebook and Instagram parent’s alleged social networking monopoly, leaving the final decision in the hands of the judge.  © Thibault Camus, Associated Press The trial, which came to...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is launching an investigation into the charges filed against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) and the mayor of Newark, N.J., saying the moves appears to violate Justice Department policy. McIver was charged last month after a scuffle with Department of Homeland Security officers outside an...

The House Freedom Caucus is pushing for House GOP appropriators to work to lock in cuts pursued by President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency as the party begins crafting government funding legislation for fiscal year 2026. In a letter addressed to Reps. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), chair and ranking member of the...

The White House said late Sunday that the suspect arrested in connection to the attack in Boulder, Colo., is an “illegal alien” who overstayed his visa. “A terror attack was committed in Boulder, Colorado by an illegal alien,” Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, said in a...

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) strongly criticized federal officers with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for entering his district office and briefly detaining one of his staffers last week, calling the incident “deeply troubling.” In the Wednesday episode, first reported by Gothamist and captured on video, a DHS officer is seen handcuffing an aide, who...

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt condemned the recent “rage-filled, violent attacks” at Jewish gatherings and called on public officials to do more before “the crisis escalates even further.” In a post Sunday on X, Greenblatt connected the Sunday attack in Boulder, Colo.— which targeted a group of peaceful participants in a weekly walk to...

Americans are more likely to say neither party has strong leaders than they are to attribute the characteristic to either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, according to the latest CNN/SSRS poll. In the May poll, released on Sunday, respondents were asked which party is best described as “the party with strong leaders.” More...

Six people were injured Sunday in an attack near a peaceful pro-Israel gathering in Boulder, Colo. The FBI and local law enforcement are investigating it as an act of terrorism. A suspect in custody used a "makeshift flamethrower" and incendiary devices, Mark Michalek, FBI special agent in charge, said at an evening press briefing. The...

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) sidestepped a question on whether former President Biden should have dropped out of the 2024 presidential race sooner, saying in a Sunday interview that the election is “over.” “Here is what we absolutely know about last year's election: It's over. And I'm going to spend all of my energy focused on...

Senate Republicans will take control of the party’s mammoth tax and domestic policy bill when they return to Washington on Monday — and seek to win over a diverse group of GOP lawmakers agitating for changes to the legislation. Members are staring down a key four-week stretch to hammer out provisions of the bill, with...

China accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of espousing a “Cold War mentality” in a speech “filled with provocations” in Singapore on Saturday. “Hegseth deliberately ignored the call for peace and development by countries in the region, and instead touted the Cold War mentality for bloc confrontation, vilified China with defamatory allegations, and falsely called China...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose time as a special government employee came to an end on Friday, said in a Sunday interview that he doesn’t want to “take responsibility” for all actions of the Trump administration. In an interview on CBS News's "Sunday Morning," Musk said he disagrees with some moves President Trump has made,...

The Securities and Exchange Commission can help level the playing field by modernizing outdated rules and expanding access to private markets, allowing more Americans to build wealth.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday touted the “absolutely brilliant result” of a large-scale drone attack on Russian strategic bombers. “Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk delivered a report regarding today’s operation. An absolutely brilliant result,” Zelensky said in an afternoon post on the social platform X. “A result achieved solely by...

The Security Service of Ukraine oversaw a drone operation on Sunday that struck dozens of Russia’s strategic bombers just ahead of planned peace talks in Istanbul. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the “absolutely brilliant” outcome of the attack, which he described as “our most long-range operation” to date. Zelensky said the attack had been in...

President Trump's executive order aims to bring down drug prices while optimizing IP protections, and Congress should pass the EPIC Act to extend the price-setting window for small-molecule drugs.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday that Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-Iowa) constituents know they will die, but “would just rather die in old age,” referencing a town hall remark from the Iowa Republican. “I think everybody in that audience knows that they're going to die,” Murphy told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,”...

Rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson said he would contact President Trump to dissuade him from considering a pardon for Sean “Diddy” Combs if the embattled rapper and producer is found guilty in his ongoing federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial. Trump said he would "look at the facts" when asked Friday if he would consider pardoning Combs....

A California judge on Friday halted the Trump administration from revoking temporary protective status (TPS) for 5,000 Venezuelans.  U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chen, an Obama appointee, said Friday the White House would have to uphold the TPS extension granted by former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in January. His successor, Kristi Noem, attempted to...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said his fellow party members need to be a bit more harsh in upcoming elections to put an end to political intimidation. After an unsuccessful bid for the vice presidency in November, Walz has shared staunch criticism of Elon Musk and other officials within the Trump administration.  “I'm getting called...

The Trump administration has ramped up its standoff with the courts over tariffs in recent days, with top advisors condemning two rulings that attempted to block tariffs from proceeding as planned. On Thursday, an appeals court temporarily paused an order that would have halted international tariffs. Despite the ruling in favor of the administration, deputy...

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg is seeing his political star rise — along with the number of attacks lobbed at him from both parties.  Hogg has drawn ire and praise from Democrats for his move to get involved in the party’s congressional primaries, part of what he says is an effort to...

President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said he received a response to the hostage proposal from the Palestinian militant group Hamas, slamming it as “totally unacceptable” and arguing that it will “only” take all sides involved “backward.”  “Hamas should accept the framework proposal we put forward as the basis for proximity talks, which we...

The White House on Saturday said it will pull the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator. “It’s essential that the next leader of NASA is in complete alignment with President Trump’s America First agenda and a replacement will be announced directly by President Trump soon,” a White House spokesperson told The Hill....

The recent U.S. Treasury bond auction's lackluster performance and Moody's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating highlight a growing loss of faith in Washington's fiscal stewardship, with the potential for global economic instability.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doubled down on a recent quip about Medicaid in a Saturday post on her Instagram story. “Hello, everyone. I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall,” Ernst said in the clip, with a sarcastic tone. On Friday, the...

Puerto Rico is a natural partner in reshoring the medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, and its leaders are working to ensure that efforts do not trap the island in its current territory status but instead enable it to reach its full potential as a future state of the United States.

A number of the president’s cabinet secretaries are Washington outsiders who bring heavyweight private sector resumes to their new roles.

President Trump is set to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz next week in Washington, marking the first in-person meeting between the two leaders.  Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who was elected as Germany’s leader in early March, is expected to visit Trump at the White House on Thursday, June...

It is baffling what Hegseth intended to accomplish with the purge. We do know that he has accomplished a decided weakening of national security.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) advised Democrats to act and learn from President Trump’s “impatience” during his speech at the annual South Carolina Democrats’ Blue Palmetto Dinner Friday night in Columbia, S.C. “I want to be clear: We can and we must condemn Donald Trump’s reckless actions. But we would also be foolish not to...

CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman said some White House officials are excited to see Elon Musk exit his role as a special government employee.  The tech giant led the Department of Government Efficiency for 130 days with an objective to downsize federal spending by trillions. Haberman, also a New York Times journalist, said news coverage...

Lester Holt hosted his last “NBC Nightly News” show on Friday after a 14 year tenure as its anchor. The highly decorated reporter bid viewers a farewell by reminding them of their core values that guide the team’s coverage. “I'm so grateful for your trust around here,. Facts matter, words matter, journalism matters, and you...

President Trump said Friday he was not aware of Elon Musk’s reported drug use but indicated he was not troubled by it. “No, I wasn’t,” Trump told reporters when asked if he was aware of Musk’s regular drug use. “I think he’s fantastic. I think Elon is a fantastic guy,” Trump added. "I'm not troubled...

The housing market is facing a record imbalance, with nearly 500,000 more sellers than buyers, according to Redfin.

Investor Kevin O'Leary seemingly bashed the Trump administration's recent crackdown on Harvard's international student population, calling the actions "stupid" during a Friday Fox News interview. "Harvard's taken a lot of heat for other stuff, but they shouldn't be taking heat for curating amazing cohorts," the "Shark Tank" star said while appearing on "Outnumbered." "These kids...