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12 Democrats vote against defense bill in rare committee split

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 4:31 pm

Twelve Democrats voted against the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) nearly $1.15 trillion version of the annual Defense policy bill late Thursday, a rare break in the typically bipartisan panel. Ranking member Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), called the committee’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) a “good solid bill” that supports troop pay raises, allies and...

Canada's defense industrial strategy is, unfortunately, just a jobs program

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 4:30 pm

What it cares about is steering defense dollars toward Canadian firms, Canadian intellectual property and Canadian supply chains.

Appeals court majority appears sympathetic to White House ballroom challenge

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 4:26 pm

A majority on a three-judge appeals court panel appeared sympathetic to a challenge to President Trump’s White House ballroom project at oral arguments Friday.  The two Democratic-appointed judges pressed the government on its arguments that Congress has already given all necessary approvals and that a preservationist group has no right to sue.  “If the government decided very quickly and bulldozed the Statue of Liberty, the people whose ancestors, that was the first...

Jobs report sparks inflation fears; Trump responds

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 4:14 pm

President Trump on Friday pushed back on inflation concerns driven by a strong jobs report, arguing robust growth should be viewed as a positive for markets. "With a great Jobs Report, like just announced, stocks should go up, not down,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. "That’s the way it was for 200 years. Growth does...

Judge blocks series of Trump policies halting immigration processing

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 4:06 pm

A federal judge on Friday vacated a series of President Trump's policies enacted in the wake of a deadly attack on National Guard members, forcing immigration agencies to again process applications from citizens of nearly 40 countries. In the days surrounding last Thanksgiving, Trump barred the processing of any immigration application for those from 39...

Platner says he and wife dealt with his texts to other women ‘very early’ in marriage

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:38 pm

Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner (D) said Thursday that his past sexting with multiple women was an issue that he and his wife, Amy Gertner, dealt with early on in their marriage. When asked in an interview when the sexually explicit messaging ended, Platner told MS NOW: “It happened soon after we got married, and...

House GOP moves to codify Hegseth's 'Department of War' name change

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:33 pm

Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee moved to codify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War” name change during a marathon session of debate over the annual defense policy bill.  Lawmakers on the committee, in a party-line vote, adopted the amendment from Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) to formally change the Department of Defense to the...

State Department steps into British political storm over Henry Nowak's murder

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:32 pm

The State Department is weighing in on an explosive criminal case in the United Kingdom centered on questions around the weaponization of racial discrimination, underscoring the Trump administration’s focus on culture wars abroad and accusations of prejudice against white people. The debate centers on the December 2025 death of a white man, 18-year-old Henry Nowak....

The US is still an investors' haven, but high Treasury yields are a concern

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:30 pm

The premium that investors require to hold dollar debt could rise further.

Astronauts briefly moved to 'safe haven' over ISS leak

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:28 pm

Cracks in the transfer tunnel of the aging space station have been causing leaks since 2019.

NPR reporter says Santos threatened him: ‘He was boiling with rage’

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:09 pm

An NPR reporter on Thursday accused former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) of threatening him during a heated phone call that included the phrase “a gun in your face.” NPR’s Bobby Allyn said the comments from Santos came a day after he published a report on the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigating the ex-lawmaker for possible...

Trump teases Lincoln Memorial 'promenade'

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:08 pm

President Trump unveiled plans Thursday for a new pedestrian "promenade" connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River, the latest in a series of high-profile projects aimed at reshaping some of Washington's most recognizable landmarks. “We’re going to call it the promenade. They want to call it the 'Trump Promenade,' but I don’t know if...

Pritzker pauses data center tax incentives in Illinois

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:03 pm

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Friday he is pausing the state’s data center tax incentives starting in July amid a push to address concerns about electricity costs and water resources that have plagued the AI infrastructure build-out nationwide. He directed state officials to pause agreements under the Data Center Investment Program, which exempted data...

Can a woman in labor be forced to have a C-section she doesn't want? 

By: The Hill

Published on: June 5, 2026, 3:00 pm

Officials in Florida decided a viable unborn child has legal standing worthy of state protection. Legally, however, that creates a dangerous framework, because it transforms the pregnant woman’s autonomy into something conditional. And what gets lost in all of this is the mother herself.