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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer offered a warm embrace of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after a Friday clash with President Trump which prompted questions about future U.S. support for the Eastern European nation. “You have full backing from the United Kingdom and we stand with you with Ukraine for as long as it may take,”...

Starmer's visit to Trump's White House was a delicate balancing act between flattering Trump and advocating for European priorities, with Trump's unpredictability ensuring that nothing is set in stone.

Putin knew he was in a weak negotiating position -- that is until Trump and Vance’s Oval Office outbursts strengthened his hand.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said the relationship between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky must be salvaged for the “good of the free world” in light of a tense back-and-forth between the two sides at the White House on Friday.  “It has to be salvaged for the good of the free world...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize to President Trump over Friday’s heated Oval Office showdown, expressing doubt over whether the Ukrainian leader wants to forge a peace agreement to end the war in Eastern Europe.  The country's top diplomat told CNN's Kaitlan Collins the Kyiv leader should “apologize...

The head of the Defense Health Agency (DHA), the health system for millions of service members and their dependents, was forced to abruptly retire Friday, Reuters reported. Army Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland, one of the most senior Black female officers in the Army who has served in her role since January 2023, “is beginning her retirement”...

The FBI is returning the property seized during the 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago to President Trump, according to the White House.  “The FBI is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them onto Air Force One,” White...

{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Trump, Zelensky meeting goes off the rails over Russia Efforts to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine were left in tatters following President Trump’s confrontational White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. ©...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) told Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “grow a pair” after the former senator defended President Trump after his heated meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington.  After Friday's public spat between Zelensky, Trump and Vice President Vance, Rubio thanked the commander-in-chief for “standing up for America in a way...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wouldn’t apologize for the meeting with President Trump, which erupted into a remarkable and tense spat, arguing that the situation was bad for both countries. Fox News’s Bret Baier asked the Ukrainian president Friday evening if he would apologize for the meeting, which was expected to result in signing a minerals deal...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Catholics call on Congress to protect Medicaid The three largest Catholic organizations in the country are urging Congress not to cut Medicaid to pay for their reconciliation bill that aims to drive much of President Trump’s agenda. ©...

Media pundit Geraldo Rivera weighed in on the heated meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying during an interview that Kyiv’s leader walked into an Oval Office “ambush.”  “I just could not believe what I was seeing. It's President Trump at his worst. President Trump as an ill-mannered bully insulting a war...

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) has called for President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to quickly resolve their disagreements after the explosive White House meeting, which he believes was detrimental to Ukraine's interests.

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story How the NOAA firings could affect Americans' lives The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which could impact its weather prediction and other services. © AP The extent of the potential damage to weather forecasting and...

White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino mockingly shared a video clip of Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova putting her head in her hands during Friday's hostile exchange between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "Ukrainian Ambassador understands that Zelensky is a complete and total disaster…," Scavino wrote in the post. Earlier, a photo...

The explosive clash between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House on Friday has sparked a firestorm on Capitol Hill, pitting “America First” Republicans against Ukraine backers from both parties in the ferocious battle over the future of U.S. foreign policy.  Within minutes of the televised Oval Office skirmish, conservatives in...

President Trump said Friday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “overplayed his hand” in an explosive Oval Office meeting earlier in the day, and he signaled future U.S. support would be in jeopardy if Zelensky does not want to end the fighting. “We had a meeting today as you know with Zelenskyy, and I would say...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Apple unveils ‘age assurance’ technology Apple will introduce technology to boost children’s privacy and safety on its devices, the company announced this week amid a larger debate surrounding children's digital privacy. © Getty With the new technology, parents will be able to...

Prominent political donor and attorney John Morgan is launching a new political party, he said on the social platform X on Wednesday. “I am forming a new political party for those of us stuck in the middle. Our two party system is broken due to Gerrymandering and divisive issues… both sides. No labels is not...

Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) suggested Wednesday that Congress and President Trump should allow private citizens, or "pirates," to take on international cartels to protect national security. Lee appeared on Fox News’s “The Will Cain Show,” where he was asked about his plan to allow people to be deployed but not using the U.S. military....

Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily delayed a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments, imposed by a lower judge who found the administration had flouted his ruling. The administration said it could not feasibly resume payments on the rapid timeline set by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, who on Tuesday directed the...

NewsNation contributor and former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said President Trump and Elon Musk are itching for a fight with the courts over their cuts to the federal workforce. Mulvaney was weighing in on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sending a memo to federal agencies requiring them to turn over their...

The Justice Department filed an emergency application at the Supreme Court Wednesday asking to block a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in blocked foreign aid payments. A federal judge set the deadline after the finding the administration had not complied with his previous ruling to restart the flow of foreign aid contracts and...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), threatened to make criminal referrals during a hearing on foreign aid on Wednesday. “This committee, based on this hearing and witness testimonies, will consider recommending investigations and criminal referrals,” Greene said, at the start of her questioning....