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Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story US set to announce nearly $6B in Ukraine aid The Biden administration is expected to soon announce billions of dollars for Ukraine before a deadline to release the funding at the end of the month, according...

Senators on Wednesday passed a short-term funding extension that will keep the government’s lights on until mid-December and will avert a preelection government shutdown days before the end-of-the-month deadline.  The Senate voted 78-18 on the stopgap bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), that will keep the government funded at current spending levels until Dec....

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Harris, Trump look to woo crypto voters Americans who own cryptocurrency are getting unprecedented attention from both major presidential candidates amid the tight battle for the White House. © AP Photo/Matt Slocum/Paul Sancya Both former President Trump and Vice President Harris took...

Presented by NFIB — The House passed a three-month government funding bill Wednesday, sending the package to the Senate as Congress seeks to avoid a shutdown starting next week. {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story House clears funding hurdle; Senate moves toward vote The House passed a three-month government funding...

Presented by Prevent Cancer Foundation — Plus: Rating the US health care system globally {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story The loophole letting telehealth companies sell weight loss drugs Despite being patented products without any approved generics, sky-high demand for GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro has allowed telehealth companies to sell...

TikTok has removed accounts on the platform linked to Russian media groups for engaging in what it calls “covert influence operations” ahead of the 2024 U.S. election. The video-streaming platform announced Monday it had removed accounts associated with parent companies Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti for violating its community guidelines. TikTok did not list which specific...

Former President Trump on Monday told women he would protect them if he is elected and attacked his opponent, Vice President Harris, as "very dumb" during a rally in the key battleground of Pennsylvania. Trump at one point sought to directly address the women in the audience as polls have shown him trailing Harris with...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration Monday after it declared a rare lizard endangered earlier this year. Paxton, a Republican, is suing the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Biden administration officials after the agencies declared the dunes sagebrush lizard was endangered. He argued that the groups...

Former President Trump on Monday told a crowd of supporters in Pennsylvania that he doesn't like anybody who doesn't like him, joking that it was a "personality defect." The former president went on a lengthy rant about late night hosts, bashing NBC's Jimmy Fallon and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, who frequently mock Trump. He then spoke...

A major hurricane is expected to form this week and threaten the Gulf Coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Monday. The NHC said in a forecast discussion Monday that a “disturbance” named Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine “is expected to intensify into a major hurricane before it approaches the northeastern Gulf Coast on Thursday.” In...

House Republican leaders are changing course on the process for considering a three-month government funding bill, abandoning plans to bring it up through a regular procedural process after opposition from some in the right flank threatened to block it. Now, the stopgap — which would keep the government funded through Dec. 20 — is expected...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) called Vice President Harris "the biggest threat to religious liberty we've had in at least a generation" during a campaign event in North Carolina, and he suggested the administration was an "opponent" of individual freedoms. "Now let's just run through a number of ways in which the Kamala Harris administration has...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Pentagon ups US troops to Middle East The U.S. is sending a “small number” of ground troops to the Middle East as a larger war between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to break out, the Pentagon announced...

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D) was sworn into the House on Monday evening after winning the special election earlier this month. McIver, 38, now represents New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District after defeating Republican Carmen Bucco. She will serve the remainder of the term for the late Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who died in April. McIver and...

Foreign dignitaries will descend on New York City beginning Tuesday for this week’s United Nations General Assembly, tackling topics including the powder keg situation in the Middle East and ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Sudan. The 79th U.N. General Assembly's theme is “advancing peace, sustainable development, and human dignity." It will include a "Summit of...

Polling practices have changed significantly over the past two decades, especially with the decline of landline usage.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a new interview with The New Yorker that Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R), the Republican nominee for vice president, “is too radical.” “He is too radical,” Zelensky said in the interview, released Sunday, of Vance. In the interview, Zelensky said Vance’s “message seems to be that Ukraine must make...

Californians will soon be subject to a sharp rise in punitive fines for illegal diversions of water resources, after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law this weekend. Newsom on Sunday granted his approval to A.B. 460, which will raise potential fines for those who steal water from rivers to up to $10,000 daily. That's 20...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) indicated that he will not vote for North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) for governor and maintained that his focus is on getting former President Trump and state legislators over the finish line in November. When asked if he will vote for Robinson — who is amid a firestorm after...

Former President Trump is headed to Tuscaloosa, Ala., for the University of Alabama's football game against the University of Georgia on Saturday. The University of Alabama confirmed Monday that Trump plans to attend the game, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m. EDT, after “receiving an invitation from a private citizen.” “The safety of our campus...

The U.S. Navy apologized in a ceremony Saturday for the bombardment of the Alaska Native village of Kake in the late 1860s, The Guardian reported. “This has been 155 years in the making,” said Joel Jackson, the president of the Organized Village of Kake, of the apology. “It’s becoming real because we never talked about...

Hezbollah said it fired dozens of missiles into an air base in southeast Haifa as a retaliatory move after a series of attacks from Israel killed dozens of people in Lebanon last week, according to reports. The death toll rose to at least 37 people after a missile attack Friday in Beirut, as Israel hit...

President Biden announced Saturday a new program and funding for research on cancer surgeries as part of his administration's Cancer Moonshot initiative, aimed at reducing cancer deaths. "So I'm proud to announce that our four countries, the leaders behind me, and many organizations here today are committing over $150 million for HPV, HPV screening and...

At a campaign rally in North Carolina on Saturday, former President Trump praised many of the state's politicians, but stopped short of mentioning gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson in the wake of a bombshell report that linked the state’s GOP lieutenant governor to adult websites. North Carolina GOP Chair Jason Simmons, Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Rep. Dan...