President Trump on Wednesday asked a Georgia judge to award him $6.26 million in attorney fees and expenses to defend against his now-dismissed criminal lawsuit in the state. Trump’s effort relies on a law passed last year by Georgia legislators that allows criminal defendants to recover their legal bills when their prosecutor is sidelined for…
The Hills Defense & NetSec Newsletter {Beacon} Defense & National Security Defense & National Security Welcome to The Big Story Will oil tanker seizure escalate Russia-US tensions? Tensions between Washington and Moscow are rising after the US military seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic. © Associated Press The ship, known as… Source…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent a letter to President Trump on Wednesday inviting him to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress on February 24. This will be Trump’s first State of the Union address in his second term. He delivered remarks to a joint session of Congress in March… Source link
Republican Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday criticized senior White House adviser Stephen Miller’s comments that Greenland rightfully belongs to the United States and that nothing could stop the Trump administration from seizing it. Tillis described Miller’s comments as “amateurish” and suggested that White House advisers trying to get hold of Greenland should lose their…
Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Wednesday that “ideally” the United States would buy Greenland to acquire the Arctic region. Fetterman social platform Source link
Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) got into a heated argument Wednesday during a Capitol Hill hearing on Minnesota’s sweeping fraud scandal. Lee accused Republicans of “cherry picking a blue state and an immigrant population” to “demonize” it, casting doubt on the motivations behind the House… Source link
The determined conservative backlash to the Somali-led organization in Representative Ilhan Omar’s district is hindering momentum for a package of three funding bills, delaying progress on the package. Included in the “minibus” that funds multiple departments and agencies, the requested community project funds will provide $1,031,000 to the Somali-led organization Generation Hope’s “Justice…”. Source link
Community members learned that a large portion of the money raised was not given to the victims. Instead, it went to 29 different nonprofits. Source link
Aldrich Ames, the CIA agent who sold American secrets to the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 84. The former case officer died in custody on Monday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ prisoner database. He was serving a life sentence without parole in a Maryland prison since 1994. Source link
Center-left think tank Third Way is urging Democrats to prioritize data privacy amid a separate effort by Republicans to develop legislation focused on the issue. In a memo released Wednesday, the nonprofit organization argued that creating a federal privacy standard should be a top priority for both parties, warning Democrats that they “risk missing an…
