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President-elect Trump said he will create an environmental advisory group lead by his former environmental consultant. “I am pleased to announce that Ed Russo, an Environmental Expert, will lead our Environmental Advisory Task Force, which will advise my Administration on initiatives to create great jobs and protect our natural resources, by following my policy of...

A man who was detained by citizens shortly after a wildfire exploded near Calabasas and West Hills is not accused of starting the fire, authorities announced Friday morning. Los Angeles police responded to Woodland Hills at around 4:30 p.m. local time Thursday when a 911 caller said a man was attempting to light a fire...

President Biden opted Friday to voluntarily take a host of questions from the press after delivering remarks on the day’s job report, a speech that had been put on the White House schedule last minute. The White House has been peppered with questions recently over whether Biden would hold an end-of-term press conference but would...

The Supreme Court will hear a case determining the fate of free preventive services under the Affordable Care Act. In a brief order issued Friday, the justices said they will consider whether members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force were constitutionally appointed. The Affordable Care Act requires insurers and group health plans to...

The Supreme Court decided Friday to take up the Biden administration’s appeal defending its proposal to ease applications for the Borrower Defense student debt relief program.   In a brief order, the justices agreed to review an appeals court ruling that favored a challenge brought by an association of schools in Texas that argue the...

The New Orleans Police Department released a body camera video of officers fatally shooting a man who earlier had driven a rented vehicle into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street, killing 14 and injuring dozens more.  The video, which was released Friday, shows the aftermath of Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar crashing a white Ford...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Earth sees scorching temps in hottest year on record: NOAA Earth saw its hottest year ever recorded last year, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released Friday. © AP In 2024, Earth overall saw its highest global temperature dating...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) invited President-elect Trump to California on Friday amid a war of words between the two leaders over the Los Angeles area wildfires.  “In this spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump. “Hundreds of...

President-elect Trump’s two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago case are asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to further stay any release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report. If successful, the move would likely run out the clock, tying the matter up in court with little time to spare before Trump’s inauguration. Trump and his co-defendants have turned...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Democrats prep case for extended ACA subsidies The extended Affordable Care Act subsidies credited with boosting health coverage in the U.S. expire at the end of this year. Democrats are preparing for a fight to keep these subsidies...

The final defendant from the first Oath Keepers trial was sentenced Friday to time served for conduct stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.   Thomas Caldwell, a U.S. Navy veteran from Virginia, was convicted in 2022 alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. Prosecutors said he played a central role in the antigovernment militia’s planning...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday went after President-elect Trump for recent comments he made about ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area. “People are literally fleeing,” Newsom told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview that aired on his show Wednesday. “People have lost their lives. Kids lost their schools, families completely torn asunder,...

President Biden will no longer travel to Italy this weekend as fires rage in Los Angeles County, the White House said Wednesday. "After returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today he had met with police, fire and emergency personnel fighting the historic fires raging in the area and approved a Major Disaster declaration...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a hearing date for President-elect Trump’s Attorney General pick Pam Bondi. The hearing will take place on Jan. 15 and 16, giving Senators on the panel the chance to question Bondi before voting on her nomination. Trump chose Bondi, Florida’s former attorney general, as his second nominee to lead...

Biden and Harris campaign battleground director Dan Kanninen said Wednesday that President Biden being on the presidential ticket wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the 2024 election. “I think that if he was the top of the ticket, versus Kamala Harris, who did an excellent job performing over 107 days, I don't see how that...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is doubling down on his attacks against tech billionaire Elon Musk over H-1B visas, telling him he’s “dead wrong” about the employment visa. In an op-ed published Wednesday on Fox News, Sanders highlighted the ongoing debate about H-1B visas and other guest worker programs as President-elect Trump prepares to implement his...

President-elect Trump and Republican senators wrestled over the best strategy for moving Trump’s top agenda items, including border security and tax relief, during a two-hour meeting at the Capitol Wednesday night, but Trump largely resisted senators’ pleas to break his agenda up into two big bills. Many Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune...

{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story  Anxieties jump at Trump's Greenland, Panama Canal military talk President-elect Trump’s refusal to rule out military action to attain his ambitions plans of acquiring the Panama Canal and Greenland has spurred a global debate over...

President-elect Trump on Wednesday said “it doesn’t matter” whether Republicans on Capitol Hill tackle his top priorities on taxes, energy and the border in one package or two as the party tries to nail down its plan for the coming months. “We had a great meeting. There’s great unity. Whether it’s one bill or two...

California Rep. Ami Bera (D) said the fires raging across parts of Los Angeles could be the state’s worst disaster in history. Bera joined NewsNation’s "The Hill" on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing fire and the briefing the California delegation received from the Office of Emergency Services. “It’s horrific and tragic and our hearts go...

Dockworkers and longshoremen struck a tentative deal Wednesday night to avoid a damaging strike ahead of a looming January deadline.  “This is a win-win agreement that creates ILA jobs, supports American consumers and businesses, and keeps the American economy the key hub of the global marketplace,” the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and United States Maritime...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday confirmed a call with President-elect Trump, and he said they did not discuss an emergency application from Trump to block his upcoming sentencing in his New York hush money case. “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding...

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) says Canada, Panama and Greenland should be "honored" by President-elect Trump's ambitions to make them part of the United States. "I think that the people of Panama, I think that the people of Greenland, I think that the people of Canada for that matter should be honored that President Trump wants...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Cassidy doesn’t seem completely on board with RFK Jr Senate Health Committee chairman Bill Cassidy (R-La.) doesn’t seem completely on board with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human...