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Happy Thursday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I’m Ellen Mitchell, and here’s your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter.   THE TOPLINE: A Pentagon watchdog is auditing the contract awarded to a North Dakota company to build a portion of President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate gears up for […]

Two brothers made a move toward suing the New York Police Department over an arrest and seizure of hemp plants that were incorrectly identified as marijuana. Oren and Ronen Levy filed notices of claim Wednesday after police arrested Ronen Levy in early November and confiscated 106 pounds of hemp plants. Prosecutors dropped Ronen Levy’s felony […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed a “mandate” to accomplish Brexit after the Conservative Party had a major victory in the country’s election. “This one nation conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done and not just to get Brexit done but to unite this country,” Johnson said, according to […]

A lawyer is seeking judgement without a trial for Alex Jones after he claimed that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 was fake. Houston attorney Mark Bankston, who represents the parents of some of the 20 children who were killed in 2012, filed a motion at the Travis County Courthouse asking the […]

The Senate passed a resolution on Thursday formally recognizing the Ottoman Empire’s genocide against the Armenian people, a move strongly opposed by the Turkish government. Sen. Bob MenendezRobert (Bob) MenendezDemocrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn’s UK rise amid anti-Semitism Lankford to be named next Senate Ethics chairman Foreign Relations Democrat calls on Iran to release other […]

The FBi is investigating the Jersey City, N.J., shooting as an act of domestic terrorism, officials said during a press conference Thursday. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced the angle of the investigation following Tuesday’s shoot-out at a kosher grocery store that left three civilians and one police officer dead.  “The evidence points towards […]

Facebook and Apple defended their decision to block law enforcement from accessing communications among their billions of users during a contentious hearing on Tuesday, even as they face intensifying pressure from lawmakers and the U.S. attorney general. The hearing came against a backdrop of reignited tensions between Silicon Valley and the government over whether tech […]

Twitter on Thursday announced it will begin verifying congressional candidates who qualify for primaries, a reversal from its previous policy that only offered the coveted “blue check” to candidates who qualified in general elections. The company said it will now verify all candidates running for the House, Senate or governor’s mansion across the country in an effort to level the playing field between incumbents […]

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s 2019 “Person of the Year” early Wednesday. The 16-year-old activist, who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year, was awarded the honor over a shortlist of five other candidates, which included President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill’s Morning Report – Sponsored by AdvaMed – […]

The U.S. and China on Thursday reached a partial trade agreement that includes scrapping tariffs set to go into effect on Sunday, according to a source familiar with the matter. Further specifics of the limited deal were not immediately clear, and it must still be signed by President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate gears up for battle […]