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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s four-day state visit to Russia, which began yesterday, is sending Europe and the U.S. a stark message. Beijing’s “no limits” partnership with Moscow is here to stay. It is past time for Brussels and Washington to recognize that Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin are doubling down on their growing ideological war against the West. […]

When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines last week, the agency suggested the move would help protect consumers. But medical experts and vaccine makers say wide application of the rule would be an unnecessary drain on time and money, while raising ethical […]

Republicans are looking to regroup on President Trump’s agenda, which one GOP lawmaker says is becoming a “trainwreck.” Senate Republicans met at the Library of Congress Wednesday to plot a path forward on the stalled budget reconciliation bill, amid growing tensions between conservatives, who want to make deep cuts to government spending, and moderates, who […]

President Trump and his economic team are experimenting with a hodgepodge of messaging tactics to sell his tariff policy as it struggles to appease concerns over rising prices. Trump this week began likening himself to a shopkeeper. Meanwhile, his Treasury secretary said young girls would be better off than their parents if they had fewer […]

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House Republicans are falling further apart in negotiations on a reconciliation package that represents President Trump’s first-year legislative agenda, with just weeks to go before their self-imposed deadline. GOP lawmakers on Wednesday sent conflicting signals on how to cut Medicaid, indicating they were no closer to a deal on one of the biggest points in […]

A federal judge issued a stark warning to the Trump administration on Wednesday that the deportation of immigrants to Libya would violate a previous court order. “If there is any doubt—the Court sees none—the allegedly imminent removals, as reported by news agencies and as Plaintiffs seek to corroborate with class-member accounts and public information, would […]

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) said Wednesday that the U.S. will not “survive” if it’s not put on “sustainable fiscal paths.” “If we don’t put our country on sustainable fiscal paths, we are going to be not be able to survive as a country,” Spartz said on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight.” Spartz’s comments came on the same […]

President Trump on Wednesday night teased a trade deal announcement, nearly a month after he implemented a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs and implemented a 145 percent tariff on China. “Big News Conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 A.M., The Oval Office, concerning a MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY. […]

Pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with security at Columbia University’s main library on Wednesday, according to a student newspaper. The Columbia Daily Spectator reported that protestors in Butler Library’s Lawrence A. Wien Reading Room on Wednesday took part in an “Emergency Rally,” but were stopped from getting out of the room by officers with the school’s Department […]

Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday he doesn’t think about retiring, but he once asked two longtime friends to intervene if his health is ever in decline.  “I’ve sat down with them and said, I want at the appropriate time — because you don’t always notice that you’re slipping — ‘I want the two of you […]

President Trump said Wednesday he was not considering softening the 145 percent tariff on imports from China.  Reporters in the Oval Office asked if the president would consider reducing levies on the foreign nation, to which he succinctly responded, “No.” In early April, the Trump administration announced reciprocal tariff exemptions on electronics such as phones, […]

House GOP moderates are telling Republican leaders they will not walk the plank and vote for Medicaid cuts in the party’s “big, beautiful bill” only to see the Senate strip them out — their latest warning shot in the effort to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda. In the past, GOP leaders have corralled the conference around […]

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) asked a witness in a House hearing on transgender athletes Wednesday to play a game of “Trump or trans.” “This hearing has nothing to do with improving government efficiency,” Crockett said during the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee meeting. “It’s another attempt by Republicans to distract from their demonic and disastrous […]

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) banged her gavel almost 50 times in an effort to silence Ranking Democratic member Melanie Stansbury (N.M.) during a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday afternoon. The hearing, which focused on trans women in sports, devolved into heated crossfire between Democrats and Republicans on multiple occasions. However, the hearing got especially intense when Stansbury […]

Tensions are rapidly escalating between nuclear powers India and Pakistan after India on Tuesday struck what it says were terrorist targets deep inside Pakistan, which says its military shot down five Indian fighter jets. India on Tuesday launched what it said were retaliatory strikes against Pakistan, the most significant attack in decades, coming two weeks […]

96 <!– Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security <!–   The Big Story  2nd F/A-18 falls into Red Sea as Houthis agree to ceasefire The Navy lost a second F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea on a mission to […]

Cameron Hamilton, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told lawmakers Wednesday that he does not believe the agency should be eliminated — breaking with musings from the president and a recent declaration from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “As the senior adviser to the president on disasters and emergency management … I […]