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Click for the latest from The Hill {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story People to watch on energy, environmental issues in 2025 Energy and climate are expected to be divisive issues in 2025 as President-elect Trump, backed by GOP majorities in both the House and Senate, looks to expand U.S. energy...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Musk backs Johnson for Speaker after funding scuffle Elon Musk threw his weight behind Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), as the top Republican in the House seeks to shore up support ahead of Friday's Speaker vote. © Jose Luis Magana, Associated Press The...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Stopgap fight foreshadows funding challenges ahead This month's messy government funding fight foreshadows challenges for House Republicans as the incoming GOP trifecta gears up for another major test. © Greg Nash Congress narrowly averted a government...

A simmering debate over work visas exploded over the last days of the year, exposing a rift over immigration among President-elect Trump’s closest supporters. The H-1B visa — a temporary, nonimmigrant work permit — is at the center of the MAGA-on-MAGA strife, with one faction claiming it’s a necessary tool to attract professional talent to...

{beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story MAHA leaders heading for clash over GLP-1 drugs Two of President-elect Trump’s top health nominees are on a collision course as the incoming administration faces a crucial decision on coverage for groundbreaking anti-obesity drugs. © AP Mehmet Oz, Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Russia rejects Trump peace proposals in Ukraine Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow does not support the proposals to end the war that it has seen from President-elect Trump's team. © AP In an interview...

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appears to be bucking President-elect Trump's endorsement of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), whom he criticized in a social media post as a "potato" like President Biden. “I respect and support President Trump, but his endorsement of Mike Johnson is going to work out about as well as his endorsement of Speaker...

Chinese state-sponsored actors hacked into the Treasury Department in early December, accessing unclassified documents from its workstations, the agency said in a letter to lawmakers Monday. The hackers stole a key from a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, and used it to override security and gain access to Treasury Department workstations, according to the letter,...

{beacon} Evening Report © AP Trump endorses Johnson for Speaker. Will it be enough? President-elect Trump has fully endorsed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) ahead of the Speaker vote set for Friday. “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue...

Emergency officials said at least 62 passengers are dead after a plane caught on fire after swerving off a runway at an airport in South Korea, the Associated Press reported. There were 181 passengers on the flight when it caught on fire as it veered off the runway after landing and hitting a fence at...

Kari Lake, a GOP Senate candidate in Arizona who lost her campaign against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) this past election cycle, said she will not seek political office again. "We know the movement that we have in Arizona, and I will never take that for granted. But there is a corrupt machine here that is...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) took aim at Democrats for choosing Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in the upcoming Congress. "While I think both are absolutely qualified, I do think that within the Democratic Caucus, we are really stuck in...

The FBI Albany Field Office is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert Brooks, an inmate at the Marcy Correctional Facility, a state prison in Oneida County, after an assault by correctional officers. “The FBI Albany Field Office and the Department of Justice are reviewing the facts and circumstances surrounding the death of Robert...

A Colorado man allegedly attacked a television news reporter after asking if he was a citizen, saying, "This is Trump's America now," court documents show, as reported by the Associated Press. The AP reported that the man, Patrick Thomas Egan, could be facing bias-motivated charges after being arrested on Dec. 18 in Grand Junction, Colo....

President-elect Trump on Saturday congratulated Florida State Rep. Hillary Cassel (R) for switching parties to the GOP this month. "Congratulations to Hillary Cassel for becoming the second State Representative from the Great State of Florida to switch her Party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, once more expanding the GOP Supermajority in the State House!" Trump...

Cases implicating transgender rights are piling up at the Supreme Court as it begins drafting its opinion on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for minors.  The justices at their recent closed-door conferences have considered petitions to take up disputes involving what school sports teams transgender athletes can play on, parental rights and whether government-funded...

President-elect Trump backed immigration visas for highly-skilled workers as the program has been in the spotlight after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy faced backlash within the Republican leader's base for signaling their support for the H-1B work visa, which has been criticized as too complicated and susceptible to abuse. “I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of...

President-elect Trump's administration has promised a fresh approach to internet bans, government spending, border security and immigration policies, warranting each topic a top spot on the Republican list of priorities for the 119th Congress. All four of these topics will likely be discussed on this week’s Sunday talk shows. The incoming president recently urged the...

President-elect Trump celebrated the blocked sale of border wall materials following a Friday ruling from a federal judge in Texas. The incoming president, in a Saturday Truth Social post, called the ruling a "major, crucial WIN for America," calling out President Biden and "his cronies" for seeking to stall the construction of the border wall,...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk penned an op-ed further expressing support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD). In response, the paper’s commentary editor resigned in protest. Musk, a close ally of President-elect Trump, wrote a guest opinion piece in the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Axel Springer media group’s flagship news outlet,...

White House National Security communications adviser John Kirby said Russia was treating North Korean troops as “expendable” by sending them on impractical ground operations in its war against Ukraine. “It is clear that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” Kirby...

MoneyGeek, a personal finance site, had researchers analyze last year’s FBI crime data of more than 1,000 small towns and cities where the population is between 30,000 and 100,000.

Republicans will be thrilled that the Democratic Party continues to prove itself clueless and tone deaf coming up on two months after President-elect Trump’s decisive and power-shifting victory.

The race for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair is shaping up to be a field of largely white men — a notable development for a party that has long touted diversity within its ranks. Roughly half a dozen candidates are running to helm the Democratic Party, almost all of them men. Nate Snyder, a former Department of Homeland...