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Democratic law firm threatens news outlet that asked about health of Senate candidate Roy Cooper

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is running for U.S. Senate and leading in the polls, but his campaign didn't care much for a reporter's question about the 69-year-old Democrat's cognitive health.

Ilhan Omar’s citizenship, marriages and finances give feds plenty of avenues to probe

Rep. Ilhan Omar could face decades behind bars, lose her American citizenship and, along with it, her House seat if federal investigators uncover evidence of criminal wrongdoing, legal experts warn about the probe that brought federal agents to her doorstep.

FDA advances peptide push to White House

Presented by Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story RFK Jr. advances peptide push The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week submitted a peptide “interim access policy” to the White House for review, according to a government filing, which would reportedly allow compounding pharmacies to temporarily produce and sell previously restricted...

Anthropic PAC splits Q3 donations down the middle

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Anthropic PAC splits Q3 donations down the middle Anthropic’s corporate political action committee poured $161,000 into campaigns across the aisle last month, bringing their total third-quarter spending to more than $250,000, according to spending records first shared with The Hill. © Patrick Sison, Associated Press The employee-funded PAC,...

Questions flare over US role in Ukraine’s Starlink shut-off: What to know

On Wednesday, Elon Musk’s Starlink was pulled into the center of a controversy after Ukraine’s military faced restricted access to Starshield, the military version of the satellite-based system. Starlink services were cut off for objects that traveled more than 100 mph, impacting the capabilities of Ukraine’s drones, airplanes and helicopters, a source familiar with the...

4 GOP senators join letter demanding Pentagon inspector general investigation of Ukraine’s Starlink outage

Four Republican senators have signed on to a letter to the Defense Department’s inspector general expressing “grave concern” over Ukraine’s sudden loss of access to intelligence-sharing and high-speed Starlink data, which it needs to intercept Russian drones, and asked him to investigate whether senior Defense officials played a role. “We urgently request an Inspector General...

Musk bankrolls PAC spending big on Paxton in Texas 

Tech mogul Elon Musk poured $158 million into a key super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) Senate run as part of his push to keep Republican majorities in Congress. Musk was the single donor to Texas PAC — a political action committee backing Paxton's run — in the third quarter, according to...

Police investigating shooting at Oregon elementary school

A shooter is dead and two people have been hospitalized after reports of an active shooter incident at a Bend, Ore., elementary school, the Bend Police Department said Thursday. Police have confirmed multiple victims, including children. Their conditions are not known at this time. The incident was reported at Silver Rail Elementary School. Bend Police...

Trump shuts down Pentagon plan for public execution: 5 takeaways

President Trump put an abrupt end on Thursday to questions about whether the Pentagon would really livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. In a Truth Social post, he said the public execution could serve as a deterrent but didn’t want to subject “good and well-meaning”...

CNN legal analyst: Biden-era inquiry into Omar hurts her case against Trump

CNN anchor Jake Tapper questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) should have come forward about any potential issues with her immigration status during the Biden administration rather than face a criminal investigation under President Trump. Federal agents raided Omar's Washington, D.C., home with a court-authorized search warrant Monday as part of a criminal investigation into...

9 former FBI agents sue, saying they were wrongly fired over Mar-a-Lago case

Nine former FBI agents sued the Justice Department on Thursday, alleging they were wrongly fired solely because of their work investigating President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. Attorneys for the agents write that their “fate was sealed by virtue of simply having worked on an investigation into Trump’s wrongdoing,” noting Attorney General Todd Blanche...

Mortgage rates hit the brakes

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Mortgage rates hold steady after monthslong rise Mortgage rates held steady this week, a reprieve after months of increases, according to new data from Freddie Mac. © Ted Shaffrey, Associated Press file The average 30-year fixed...

Trump lashes out at Republicans as Ken Paxton struggles in Texas

President Donald Trump is blaming fellow Republicans as his endorsed candidate, Ken Paxton, appears to be in a fierce struggle for a Senate seat...

The DSA’s war against New York: Letters to the Editor — Oct. 16, 2026 

NYPost readers discuss DSA figures’ fury at ICE after the shooting of a criminal illegal in The Bronx.

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