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Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story A link between Iran war and 9/11 in Trump administration speeches President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tied the Iran war to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in remarks at the Pentagon, suggesting the…
The Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group’s reported takeover of a Yemen port city is raising the stakes in Tehran’s war with the U.S. Saudi Arabia, which backs Yemen’s military, is reportedly urging President Trump to strike the rebels, while the U.S. has sent more than 100 advisors to aid its Saudi allies in the fight. In…
Prices in the U.S. economy kept rising in August, according to government data released Friday, ratcheting up the affordability squeeze on American consumers...
Kevin Warsh and the Fed have expressed interest in rate hikes, but are boxed in as inflation hinges heavily on oil prices.
A Schwab fixed-income strategist and a Wharton finance professor are both saying the same unsettling thing about next week's Fed meeting, and Friday's CPI re...
Will Republicans actually sign on for a tax increase — and how can you avoid taking a tax hit if they do?
The president reiterated his support for policies to cut fees associated with credit cards, noting the charges are a burden for consumers.
Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said Friday that it’s investigating a data breach, making it the second organization that hosts Americans’ driver’s license information to be hacked this month.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Friday publicly released for the first time a tranche of daily intelligence briefings provided ahead of September 11, 2001 to former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton about Al Qaeda’s plans to commit terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. The intelligence agency released 71 declassified documents in what CIA…
A Texas judge on Thursday ruled the social media platform TikTok misled consumers about the company’s efforts to filter inappropriate content for minors. In her ruling, Texas District Judge Cory Liu said TikTok’s claims about its content-moderation policies violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The state of Texas alleged TikTok did not remove certain…
The New York Times reported Thursday that federal prosecutors are in the “early stages” of a criminal investigation into the Clippers’ shady sponsorship arrangements for Kawhi Leonard, using companies like Aspiration, Daktronics (which already revealed an ongoing SEC investigation), and Boingo Wireless. Pablo Torre obviously chimed in with his take on the proceedings, saying “there is, in fact, more.” [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FplbSvQh5jI]
Asking Siri to call American Express connected an 82-year-old woman to a bogus number that nearly drained $100,000 from her Bank of America account.
The country’s largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis has ended, federal health officials said Friday. The foodborne illness linked to contaminated lettuce sickened 12,883 people across 21 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with more than 500 people hospitalized. Two people died in Michigan, which was the hardest-hit state, though health authorities…
“It is likely to be connected in a complex way to the psychological and social elements related to failing to control one’s weight.”
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the former president, who became a painter in his retirement, just shared a self-portrait from his most fateful day. (He also has a new collection of paintings related to 9/11.) The original image depicts Bush receiving news of the attack from his chief of staff, as the president was reading a book to Florida schoolchildren. The “whisper” image has become a potent meme over the years. [Media: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdJk6AwEczO/?hl=en&img_index=1]
North Korea’s surreptitious push to plant employees in U.S. companies has expanded to include remote workers from other countries, such as Iran and Lebanon, according to U.S. government and foreign agencies and several cybersecurity researchers.
Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch.
The White House claims Truth Social “most powerful and popular social media platform in the world,” as YouTube and Facebook garner billions of monthly users each month.
