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CNN reported its journalists have been barred from joining the press pool traveling with President Trump this weekend. They were set to board Air Force One Saturday to cover his visit to Knoxville for a college football game. The outlet had been scheduled to serve as this weekend's TV press pooler — a rotating group...
President Trump cancelled almost $1 billion in federal funding Friday using the controversial “pocket rescission" process, which allows him to sidestep congressional approval. Most of the cancellations targeted Health and Human Services (HHS) programs serving undocumented immigrants and unaccompanied children in court, as well as similar initiatives under the agency's Minority Health office and the...
The attempted clawback represents the second time in as many years that the White House has sought to cancel funding approved by lawmakers.
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story GOP senators not happy with Trump's embrace of Xi after China helped Iran Republican senators are dismayed over President Trump’s lavish welcome of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the U.S. after the discovery that Iran used...
Cattle industry groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas and two Republican senators said the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions were hurting operations.
The White House defended the pro-President Trump television campaign that aired this week ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, saying that “patriotism isn’t partisan.” “The announcements are a reminder for Americans to love their country and know why it’s worth defending — at home, at the border, and abroad,” the White House wrote in a...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Appeals court sides with Pentagon on Anthropic blacklisting The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with the Trump administration in its blacklisting of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, allowing the Pentagon to label the AI firm a supply chain risk. Patrick Sison, Associated Press The...
President Trump welcomed Xi Jinping of China for a state visit that was heavy on pomp and ceremony. But surprisingly little time was spent on the issues that most divide the two superpowers.
His visits come as the GOP rushes to shore up their own territory amid sky-high costs, an unpopular Iran war and some backlash to mass deportations.
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded a lavish three-day summit in Washington, D.C., Friday, pledging to meet at least two more times this year. It was one of the few, solid commitments announced during the meetings, which saw other high-stakes issues fall to the background. This includes negotiations over Artificial Intelligence regulation, long-term...
Norm Eisen, a former White House ethics lawyer and frequent critic of President Trump, urged Americans not to “overreact” after the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling permitting the administration to move forward with its new immigration database ahead of the midterm elections. In an emergency ruling, the high court found that the Trump administration could proceed...
A group of senators, including seven Republicans, sent an open letter to President Trump on Friday to express “serious concern” and press him to explain why he invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the Group of 20 Leaders’ Summit in Miami later this year amid Russia’s war with Ukraine. “Given President Putin’s continued actions...
The U.S.-China summit offered a sharp contrast with the action at the faltering United Nations in a gridlocked New York.
Former President Bill Clinton rebuked President Trump's attempted ban of three outlets from the White House earlier this week, saying during his presidency "there were lots of times when I wanted to ban the White House press corps." “I got news for the people who work in the White House today. There were lots of...
President Trump said on Friday he is ruling out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to serve as his artificial intelligence czar amid speculation the Cabinet member was under consideration. Trump, in a Truth Social post Friday, said Bessent will not be the "Super Intelligence (SI) Czar," referring to his proposed rebrand of AI, because he "doesn't...
Former special counsel Jack Smith will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, his second appearance before Congress as they probe his investigation into President Trump. Smith led a team of Justice Department investigators and ultimately determined he would bring charges against Trump in both the Mar-a-Lago documents case and another related to the...
President Trump criticized former President Barack Obama for hosting Chinese presidents for state dinners, including Xi Jinping, multiple times more than a decade before doing it himself. Trump personally greeted Xi at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday and hosted a state dinner for him Thursday. But in 2016, Trump criticized state dinners, saying, “We shouldn’t...
President Trump on Friday confirmed he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping two more times before the end of the year, following his counterpart’s three-day state visit to the U.S. Trump said in a Truth Social post that he will meet with Xi in China in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, as...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, is calling on the Trump administration to spend more than $1 billion of global health funding that Congress has already appropriated before it expires Sept. 30. In a letter sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House Budget Director Russ Vought and Eric Ueland —...
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Friday demanded the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) keep Washington’s airspace safe by rejecting President Trump's plans to convert his intended triumphal arch into a military site from which drones may be launched. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford, Duckworth pressed for...
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to deploy a system that merges personal data from across the government. Questions remain about its reliability.
President Trump softened much of his stance toward China as he prepared to host its leader. But his disregard of a topic that has consumed him — the 2020 election — was particularly stark.
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Presented by American Policy Ventures — Plus: 💬Trump, Xi summit winds down {beacon} It’s Friday. We rarely work just 9 to 5 in the media business — but we can still celebrate the late Dolly Parton today with more than one cup of ambition. ☕ In today's issue: White House TV pool makes...