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State Department OKs potential $24B fighter jet sale to Saudis

Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story State Department OKs potential $24B fighter jet sale to Saudis The State Department announced Thursday that it approved a potential $24 billion sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite worries from defense officials and lawmakers…

Alaska governor’s race shifts to toss-up: Cook Political Report

Nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report shifted Alaska’s gubernatorial race to a toss-up on Thursday after previously leaning Republican. Jessica Taylor, the handicapper’s Senate and governors editor, reported that new AARP polling found Democratic former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins had 40 percent of respondents’ backing, while his closest challenger — conservative businesswoman Bernadette Wilson (R)…

Kennedy fans vaccine injury concerns at anti-vaccine event

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Kennedy fans vaccine injury concerns at anti-vaccine event Returning to the anti-vaccine group he long chaired on Thursday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. Used his keynote address to reinvigorate concerns about vaccine injuries. © Jacquelyn Martin,…

Far Cry TV Show Adds Oscar Nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh, Spider-Noir's Brendan Gleeson to Cast

FX's upcoming anthology TV series Far Cry, based on Ubisoft's hit first-person shooter video game franchise, is adding five more actors to its cast as it heads towards production. Oscar nominees Jennifer Jason Lee (Hateful Eight, Fargo) and Brendan Gleeson (Spider-Noir, The Banshees of Inisherin) have signed on, as have Hamish Linklater (Batman: Caped Crusader, The Whisper Man), Sam Spruell (Game of Thrones: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), and Jamie Demetriou (Only Murders in the Building).

RFK Jr. says anti-vaccine group has a ‘friend at the White House’

Speaking to the anti-vaccine group he once led, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday the Trump administration supports its cause. “You have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House,” Kennedy told dozens of attendees at a one-day conference put on by Children’s Health Defense, the organization he…

A Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘theft of unprecedented proportions.’

In court documents unredacted Thursday, lawyers for the NYT in its copyright infringement case against Microsoft and OpenAI cited Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, saying that “millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions… almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.” The Orlando Sentinel, which is also part of the suit, reports a Microsoft filing “framed Hecht as someone on the payroll to play a contrarian.”

Watch live: Trump hosts Burgum, group of outdoorsmen at White House Rose Garden

President Trump will host Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, along with more than 100 outdoorsmen, for a White House Rose Garden dinner Thursday evening, a source familiar with the event told The Hill’s broadcasting partner, NewsNation. Trump will reportedly speak during the event and sign two executive orders reversing former President Biden-era restrictions on U.S. land.…

F-16 crashes on training run in Michigan; pilot safely ejects

An F-16 fighter jet crashed and the pilot ejected to safety in northern Michigan on Thursday afternoon, military officials confirmed. The crash, which occurred in Grand Traverse County, was captured in a video circulated by local news outlets showing a large plume of black smoke in the air near residential homes. The Texas Military Department…