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United Airlines and Delta Airlines canceled flights to Tel Aviv this week amid rising tensions in the region, the companies announced separately on Wednesday. United will suspend all service to Tel Aviv until further notice, a United spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill, citing “security reasons” for the decision. The suspension begins Wednesday...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story After Hamas leader's death, region inches closer to war The assassination of Hamas’s top political leader in Tehran is intensifying fears of a wider war while cooling hopes to end the Gaza war and secure a...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is making a campaign appearance Wednesday in Glendale, Ariz., a critical state former President Trump wants to swing back to his column in November. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (D) is considered among the top candidates to be Vice President Harris's running mate, underscoring how importantly both sides see the state. Vance...

A United Nations report released Wednesday said Palestinian detainees were subjected to torture and abuse while in Israeli custody. The United Nations Human Rights Office report investigated Palestinian detentions from October to the end of June and found those detained are sometimes imprisoned without a clear reason and generally held in prolonged secret detention, sometimes...

Presented by PhRMA — The CDC has confirmed 13 bird flu cases in the U.S. since March of this year. Nine of the cases were detected in Colorado with three most recently confirmed last week. Officials described the symptoms as mild, with pink eye being the primary sign.  {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The...

Comedian Jon Stewart took aim at Republicans who criticized President Biden's exit from the race, suggesting that their party could also replace former President Trump.  Stewart played clips of Republicans claiming that Biden's withdrawal from the race and endorsing Vice President Harris was a "coup" within the Democratic Party on Monday's episode of "The Daily...

Republican strategist Karl Rove said former President Trump needs to regain control of the campaign narrative because he is in a "subordinate role" compared to Vice President Harris. Rove outlined what both Trump and Harris need to do to boost their campaigns in the coming weeks during an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Saturday. He...

A New York judge on Monday banned former National Rifle Association (NRA) leader Wayne LaPierre from serving in a paid position for the gun rights group for the next ten years while declining to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the organization. The ruling came as part of the second stage of a civil trial...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has withdrawn from consideration as Vice President Harris’s running mate in the November election, he said Monday. “I strongly support Vice President Harris’ campaign for President. I know she’s going to win and I was honored to be considered for this role,” Cooper said in a statement. “This just...

Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday repeatedly prodded former President Trump over his comments at a conservative Christian summit, where he told attendees they won’t have to vote anymore after November. Trump did little to push back on the backlash over his remarks, as some Democrats have suggested the former president was saying there...

A group of congressional aides has launched a public dissent channel where staffers can anonymously express their concerns about Israel's war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. The website's homepage states the channel is where aides can "safely and anonymously offer alternative or dissenting opinions to Congressional policies and action." The New York...

The security failures surrounding the assassination attempt against former President Trump are set to come under increased scrutiny by senators Tuesday, when they convene for a joint hearing in the hopes of finding answers that have thus far eluded frustrated lawmakers. Ronald Rowe, the new acting director of the Secret Service, and FBI Deputy Director...

Former President Trump on Monday offered cover for his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), as Vance faces a firestorm over his past comments mocking “childless cat ladies." Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that Vance has “tremendous support,” and argued he does particularly well among “people that like families.” “He made a certain...

Former President Trump on Monday said he would "probably" end up debating Vice President Harris ahead of November's election, but he left the door open to backing out. "The answer is yes, I’ll probably end up debating," Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, arguing any debate should be held before early voting starts. Still,...

Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), the Democrat who represents Sen. JD Vance's (R-Ohio) district, slammed the vice presidential candidate for his views on abortion, women and marriage, arguing his was "one of the cruelest, most chaotic and downright weirdest" VP campaigns. Landsman, in a lengthy Monday thread on the social platform X, argued Vance does not...

Presented by PhRMA — The law bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Iowa abortion ban takes effect A law that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant took effect in Iowa on Monday. It will have a ripple effect across the...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Monday said Americans view Vice President Harris as “a bit of a ding-dong,” a comment that was met with some pushback from Fox News host Neil Cavuto. Kennedy fired off a series of attacks against Harris on Fox News’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” repeatedly claiming polls show that Americans...

Correction: This story was updated with the correct location of Monday's event. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) hit the campaign trail for Vice President Harris in Montgomery County, Pa., on Monday. The two battleground-state governors praised Harris’s record as vice president but did not hold back in their attacks...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story A new military command structure for US and Japan The U.S. and Japan announced a major new military command structure Sunday that aims to counter Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region. © The Hill, Allison Robbert...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story  Musk faces backlash over fake Harris video Elon Musk has been accused of violating the policies of his platform X after sharing a fake video of Vice President Harris that used an artificial intelligence (AI) voice mimicking the likely Democratic nominee to spew...

Attending her first fundraiser as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Vice President Harris told a room of more than 800 people in Massachusetts that “we are the underdogs” to rally support for her new campaign. “We got a fight ahead of us and we are the underdogs,” she said according to the National Public Radio....

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D), who is viewed as one of the top candidates for Vice President Harris to tap as her running mate, said he would be “eager” to debate Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio). “I'd be eager for the chance to debate him, just like I know the vice president...

As part of their argument for upholding a law recently signed by President Biden that may force the shutdown of TikTok, the Department of Justice is now alleging that the social media app is sending information on the social views of Americans to engineers in China.  In a brief filed on Friday night reviewed by...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cutting short his trip to the U.S. to return to Israel after a missile strike on a soccer field on Israel’s northern border killed 11 children and teens and injured 20, according to Israeli officials. Israel has blamed Hezbollah for the strike, but the Iran-backed terrorist group based in...