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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday went after President-elect Trump for recent comments he made about ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area. “People are literally fleeing,” Newsom told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview that aired on his show Wednesday. “People have lost their lives. Kids lost their schools, families completely torn asunder,...

President Biden will no longer travel to Italy this weekend as fires rage in Los Angeles County, the White House said Wednesday. "After returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today he had met with police, fire and emergency personnel fighting the historic fires raging in the area and approved a Major Disaster declaration...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a hearing date for President-elect Trump’s Attorney General pick Pam Bondi. The hearing will take place on Jan. 15 and 16, giving Senators on the panel the chance to question Bondi before voting on her nomination. Trump chose Bondi, Florida’s former attorney general, as his second nominee to lead...

Biden and Harris campaign battleground director Dan Kanninen said Wednesday that President Biden being on the presidential ticket wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the 2024 election. “I think that if he was the top of the ticket, versus Kamala Harris, who did an excellent job performing over 107 days, I don't see how that...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is doubling down on his attacks against tech billionaire Elon Musk over H-1B visas, telling him he’s “dead wrong” about the employment visa. In an op-ed published Wednesday on Fox News, Sanders highlighted the ongoing debate about H-1B visas and other guest worker programs as President-elect Trump prepares to implement his...

President-elect Trump and Republican senators wrestled over the best strategy for moving Trump’s top agenda items, including border security and tax relief, during a two-hour meeting at the Capitol Wednesday night, but Trump largely resisted senators’ pleas to break his agenda up into two big bills. Many Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune...

{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story  Anxieties jump at Trump's Greenland, Panama Canal military talk President-elect Trump’s refusal to rule out military action to attain his ambitions plans of acquiring the Panama Canal and Greenland has spurred a global debate over...

President-elect Trump on Wednesday said “it doesn’t matter” whether Republicans on Capitol Hill tackle his top priorities on taxes, energy and the border in one package or two as the party tries to nail down its plan for the coming months. “We had a great meeting. There’s great unity. Whether it’s one bill or two...

California Rep. Ami Bera (D) said the fires raging across parts of Los Angeles could be the state’s worst disaster in history. Bera joined NewsNation’s "The Hill" on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing fire and the briefing the California delegation received from the Office of Emergency Services. “It’s horrific and tragic and our hearts go...

Dockworkers and longshoremen struck a tentative deal Wednesday night to avoid a damaging strike ahead of a looming January deadline.  “This is a win-win agreement that creates ILA jobs, supports American consumers and businesses, and keeps the American economy the key hub of the global marketplace,” the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and United States Maritime...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday confirmed a call with President-elect Trump, and he said they did not discuss an emergency application from Trump to block his upcoming sentencing in his New York hush money case. “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding...

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) says Canada, Panama and Greenland should be "honored" by President-elect Trump's ambitions to make them part of the United States. "I think that the people of Panama, I think that the people of Greenland, I think that the people of Canada for that matter should be honored that President Trump wants...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Cassidy doesn’t seem completely on board with RFK Jr Senate Health Committee chairman Bill Cassidy (R-La.) doesn’t seem completely on board with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human...

CNN’s Harry Enten said President Biden's recent comments about possibly securing a victory in the last election against President-elect Trump if he had not dropped out are “flat-out bonkers” in a video posted to the social platform X on Wednesday. “Joe Biden in his exit interview with USA Today claims that he could have beaten...

The Pentagon on Wednesday said it was “not aware” of any plans to invade Greenland if ordered to do so, after President-elect Trump a day earlier refused to rule out using military force to seize Denmark's autonomous territory. “I'm certainly not going to get into hypothetical situations. I think that's for the incoming administration to...

Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) said on Monday he is ready to meet Republicans “at the 50-yard-line” and even at “the 40-yard-line” due to them being “in the majority.” “So, the American public clearly wants more secure borders,” Bera told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.” “Great. Let's meet at the 50-yard-line. I'd even say, since...

President-elect Trump said on Monday that he’ll replace the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) leader. “We will [have a] new archivist,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on his show. According to federal law on the NARA website, Trump has the power to fire the archivist but must "communicate the reasons for any...

President Biden offered his condolences to the victims of the New Orleans New Year's Day attack, calling the Louisiana city one with a tough spirit at an interfaith prayer service with victims’ families. “If there’s one thing we know, New Orleans defines strength and resilience, you define it. Whether it’s in the form of this...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story A Gaza ceasefire agreement in next 2 weeks? The US is hopeful The Biden administration says it is still hoping to secure a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in its final two weeks in the White House....

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked his followers on the social platform X, which he owns, if the U.S. “should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.” “America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government,” Musk captioned a post with a poll on X highlighted by Mediaite, with users able...

President-elect Trump will be on Capitol Hill on Wednesday at the invitation of Senate Republican leadership, according to three sources familiar with the invitation. GOP leaders haven’t released the time of the meeting, but Trump has met with Republican senators at their weekly Tuesday Republican policy lunch meeting in the past. Senate Republican Whip John...

It was routine — and that was the point. Congress certified President-elect Trump’s election victory in a smooth and relatively brief ceremony Monday. The normalcy of the occasion was a juxtapositional reminder of the events of four years before, when a mob laid siege to the Capitol, coming ominously close to keeping Trump in power...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story GOP senator says Trump pick RFK Jr. ‘wrong’ on vaccines Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), the incoming chair of the Senate HELP Committee, said Sunday that President-elect Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary is ‘wrong’ when...

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO and President Dana White will join Meta’s board of directors, the social media company announced Monday. White is part of a trio of new additions to the Meta board, alongside John Elkann, CEO of Exor and chair of Stellantis and Ferrari, and tech investor Charlie Songhurst. “Dana, John and Charlie...