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Watch live: Vance seeks to sell Trump agenda to Ohio voters

Vice President Vance is heading back to his Ohio hometown Friday afternoon, as he looks to sell President Trump’s economic agenda to voters ahead of the November midterms. Vance will deliver remarks at Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works, a steel plant where his grandfather worked for nearly four decades. He is expected to tout the administration’s efforts…

Trump’s move to pause beef tariffs risks blowback

😎 Plus: South Carolina gets a dose of Trump {beacon} It’s Friday. Against all odds and several hundred emails, we’ve made it. In today’s issue: Beef tariffs get a timeout Bessent weighs America’s debt Trump goes all in for Graham IndyCar zooms into DC Programming note: Hello! We are Colin Meyn and Steff…

Massie, Greene slam Trump’s move to lower beef prices

Two Republicans pushed back on the Trump administration’s Friday decision to temporarily lift certain tariffs on imported ground beef in an effort to bring down prices for American consumers ahead of the midterm elections. President Trump announced in a Truth Social post Friday morning that he had finalized “a deal to substantially lower the price…

ICE begins deporting Haitians who lost temporary protections

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday carried out its first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration terminated deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians earlier this year. The plane, which carried more than 160 people, arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien, The Associated Press reported. The U.S. has a…

Mike Rogers on push for data center pause: ‘Let’s get these questions answered’

Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) is calling for a one-year moratorium on data center construction until Michiganders can “get their questions answered” about such projects. The Republican, who is running in Michigan’s closely watched Senate race, cited his conversations with voters on the campaign trail about the issue in an interview with NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich.…

The hemp loophole has become a national intoxicant market

An op-ed argues that while recent federal legislation aims to correct the 2018 farm bill’s loophole regarding intoxicating hemp products, states must maintain authority to regulate the burgeoning market to prevent it from becoming politically entrenched.

What’s with Trump’s war against the US Navy?

So far, the president has insisted that the Navy go back to using steam, decreed that the Strait of Hormuz will be a U.S. territory, and demanded that new aircraft carriers be redesigned to make them look “better.”

How the bipartisan data center backlash could reshape politics nationwide

Bipartisan backlash to data centers is spreading nationwide. How could the panicked political response carry lasting consequences? Plus, democratic socialist Angie Nixon’s upset in the Florida Democratic Senate primary and Sen. Darline Graham’s (R-S.C.) viral debate stumble in South Carolina. Join The Hill’s senior vice president of editorial content, Bill Sammon, and political editor Chris Stirewalt to discuss…

Whole Hog Politics: A chilly forecast for the Senate GOP from Alaska

[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Hill Insider members can join us live today at 9 a.m. EDT as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] Elon Musk may succeed in November at repealing Alaska’s nonpartisan primary system. Whether you think that’s a…

8 killed in plane crash at remote Alaska radar site: US military

Eight people were killed after the charter airplane they were traveling on crashed in Alaska on Thursday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The crash occurred near the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, a U.S. Air Force military airstrip located in a remote area in the southwest part of the state.…