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Europe and Canada had a 20 percent surge in defense spending in 2025 compared with the previous year, according to the annual report by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, who said the alliance has “started a new chapter.”  “We took big decisions and decisive action to defend the Alliance, protect our way of life, and keep one billion…

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) suggested Wednesday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) should have less access to President Trump as the conflict with Iran persists. “I absolutely think he should have his Oval Office credentials revoked,” Cammack told Migrant Insider’s Pablo Manríquez as she departed the Capitol. Graham, a staunch foreign policy hawk who has openly…

As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown drags on, President Donald Trump is now considering deploying the National Guard to assist ICE agents at U.S. airports—raising new questions about security, politics, and the ongoing crisis. Read More: Democrats worry centrists will undercut them on DHS shutdown amid TSA meltdown

Joe Rogan said Wednesday Democrats were tougher on the border than President Trump, citing past comments from both former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  The podcaster described Clinton’s rhetoric on the border during her first presidential campaign as “hardcore.” “If you’ve been convicted of a crime, get out. If you stay…

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Thursday it will ban transgender women athletes from women’s events ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The policy states that eligibility to perform in women’s sports will first be based on SRY gene screening “to detect the absence or presence of the SRY gene,” the committee said in…

“He’s telling on himself,” one observer wrote of the president.

Inflation is projected at 4.2 percent this year amid economic concerns surrounding the U.S.-Israeli conflict against Iran, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In a new report, the OECD made 2026 inflation projections for multiple countries, with the United Kingdom at 4 percent, Japan at 2.4 percent, Canada at 2.4 percent…

Some Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have started checking travelers’ identification documents (IDs) after receiving standard training from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), officials from the latter agency said. Acting TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that ICE officers deployed to select airports throughout the country were…

Former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday said the “big present” President Trump received from Iran was likely a tanker filled with oil. “I think I’ve speculated about this before and it’s still speculation, but I think it is a tanker loaded with Iranian oil that they let out. And the reason Trump thinks…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has settled a lawsuit from President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn over claims he was wrongfully prosecuted for making false statements to the FBI during its probe of Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. The agreement resolves a 2023 lawsuit in which Flynn cast…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced that his country’s military killed the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’s navy, Commodore Alireza Tangsiri. Tangsiri and other senior naval commanders were killed in an Israeli strike overnight, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said. “This man had a great deal of blood on his hands,”…

Daniel Fried, who once served as U.S. ambassador to Poland, called out the president over his “improvising” ways in the Middle East.

A Democratic lawmaker has asked a federal judge to stop the Kennedy Center from sticking President Trump’s name on its building and other branding. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex officio member of the performing arts center’s board of trustees, argued in a motion filed Wednesday that Congress plainly established former President Kennedy as the…

Republicans continue to try and appease Donald Trump anyway they can — including giving their dear leader a new award.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has been known to buck his party in recent years, said he is confused about his popularity with Republicans. “I, for some strange way, I am more popular with Republicans, which is, it’s confusing because I vote, I vote in the 90s [percentage-wise] Dem line, and I didn’t, and I…

President Trump’s disapproval rating hit its lowest rating across both of his terms, according to a new Fox News poll. The survey, released Wednesday, found that 59 percent of registered voters do not approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency, with 47 percent who say they strongly disapprove. Another 41 percent said the opposite, with…

The longtime host launched a few zingers at the president in a debate with guest host Abby Huntsman.

President Trump will convene a meeting of his Cabinet at the White House on Thursday morning as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown stretches into Day 41. The forum comes as pressure mounts over travel woes caused by airport security staffing shortages amid the DHS funding lapse and as Iran and the U.S. go…

The “Late Night” host wasn’t having it with the president after he started “pulling numbers out of his ass.”

President Trump will hold a Cabinet meeting on Thursday morning amid escalating tensions over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown and war in Iran. Fear is rising that some centrist Senate Democrats who have toed the party line on DHS funding will start defecting as the shutdown stretches on. All but one Democrat —…

President Trump on Thursday urged Iranian negotiators that they “better get serious soon” as efforts for a ceasefire in the Middle East appear to falter. Trump previously said the two countries were close to a deal but wrote in a post on Truth Social that the Islamic Republic’s negotiators were “very different and ‘strange.’” “They…

The U.S. and Iran are standing by their hardened positions as the push to bring a ceasefire to the Middle East conflict appears to dissipate. President Trump early Thursday accused Iranian negotiators of “begging” to reach a deal with the U.S. after the Iranians submitted their own peace plan and rejected the Trump administration’s 15-point…

In an apparent effort to break the impasse on the strait, Israel said it killed Commodore Alireza Tangsiri, the head of Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s navy.

Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here or in the box below: In today’s issue: ▪ Mullin’s priorities at DHS ▪ Iran bolstering defenses ▪ Landmark ruling against Meta, YouTube ▪ Democratic lawmaker’s ethics hearing Markwayne Mullin is hoping to turn the page at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now that he’s…
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