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No two days are the same for Wyndee Parker. As national security adviser to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Parker is responsible for overseeing the activities of all of the lower chamber’s national security committees, including Armed Services, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security and their Appropriations counterparts. She also works with the executive branch…
Carrie Hughes knows she is somewhat of a rarity on Capitol Hill. Her first job as a congressional aide was in the office of Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.). Eighteen years later, he’s the only member she has worked for. Hughes started in Scott’s personal office and now serves as the director of Health and…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has insisted faster economic growth can wipe away concerns about troubling fiscal trajectories, a key theme of his recent G2...
Tech News News: Apple has released iOS 27, the largest iPhone software update it has shipped all year, and it is free for every iPhone 11 and newer. The rollout start.
Mobile data, broadband services suspended in the territory since protests calling for electoral reform in June.
The 10-year US Treasury yield rose to the highest level in almost two decades, the latest milestone in a bruising global bond selloff driven by surging energ...
U.S. diplomatic facilities in four Gulf countries suffered around $184 million in estimated damages from Iranian military strikes, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog made public on Monday. The posts are located in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon watchdog said in the 44-page report, the first…
Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Iran strikes on US diplomatic facilities raise war cost U.S. diplomatic facilities in four Gulf countries suffered around $184 million in estimated damages from Iranian military strikes, a new Pentagon watchdog report found. © Farid Abdulwahed,…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told reporters he would like to see the Protect College Sports Act, the proposed landmark legislation regulating the big business of college sports, signed by President Trump live on ESPN’s “College GameDay.” “Our goal from the beginning was not just to squeak by with 60 votes but to get a big…
A price hike and purchase limits may take you back to the days of empty shelves where toilet paper once stood, but this likely won’t impact you as much as you may immediately fear.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling on House GOP leaders to remain in Washington to allow Congress to consider new limits on AI companies following dire warnings from industry insiders about the threat the technology poses to humanity. Speaking to reporters Monday in the Capitol, Jeffries said the calls for a slowdown from…
The Trump administration on Monday gutted regulations that limited planet-warming emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants. The move allows a sector that makes up a large share of the U.S.’s climate change contributions to release greenhouse gases unchecked by the government. It’s expected to be a win for the fossil fuel industry, while allowing…
The Trump administration wants to eliminate any limits to greenhouse gas pollution from power plants as it prioritizes making the US “the AI capital of the world.”
Oil prices on Monday leaped more than 4 percent after Yemen-based militant Houthis struck Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure and ships, leaving one crucial pipeline out of service for weeks. The global benchmark for crude oil, Brent crude, settled at $105.66 per barrel as of Monday afternoon. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark in the U.S., rose…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at an event, and the president launched into his take on recent fears about AI development.
Political figures across the aisle, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, are finding themselves on the same side of a growing fight over AI regulations. Sanders and Bannon are among a handful of political leaders speaking at a Tuesday event advocating controls to keep humans in charge of…
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to give a keynote address this week at a conference for Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine advocacy organization he co-founded and led prior to becoming head of the nation’s health agency. For the past year Kennedy has worked to distance himself from the efforts…
The Federal Reserve said Monday for the second straight month it won’t buy Treasury bills for reserve management purposes in the upcoming period, an indicati...
