A group of Colorado voters launched a bid Wednesday to rewrite the state's congressional map and erase as many as three GOP-held seats, moving to counter Republican gains from mid-decade redistricting elsewhere.
Air Force One and other planes in the executive transportation fleet are getting a new color scheme that President Trump has wanted since his first administration.
Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, has been tapped as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention following Jim O'Neill's removal last week, according to multiple reports.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took a day trip to meet with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other state Democrats on Wednesday to continue the push for mid-decade redistricting.
It’s generally poor form to speak ill of the recently deceased, but the problem with holding your tongue is that it often allows revisionism to congeal as history. No doubt, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr. has a complicated legacy. We shouldn’t judge people’s lives, not even high-profile leaders, by their worst moments. But Jackson had many bad […]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) warned Lone Star State Republicans against nominating state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in the GOP primary. “If Ken Paxton is the nominee, we could well experience a massacre, and the first Democrat elected since 1994 in the state of Texas,” Cornyn told supporters in Fort Worth, Texas, according to NBC...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) countered a threat from Iran’s supreme leader against American warships with a famous movie quote on Wednesday. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened to sink U.S. vessels amid nuclear talks between the two countries this week. “The Americans constantly say that they’ve sent a warship toward Iran,” Khamenei said. “Of...
The Hennepin County, Minn., Attorney's office on Wednesday demanded that the federal government hand over records and evidence related to the killing of U.S. citizen Alex Pretti by federal officers during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis last month. The office of Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty accused the Trump administration of hiding evidence...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump’s surgeon general nominee to finally get hearing After months of delay, President Trump’s pick to be the next U.S. surgeon general will appear before the Senate for a confirmation hearing, where her credentials and special interests are likely...
A group of 13 states that did not support President Trump in the last election sued the administration on Wednesday over canceled federal climate funds. The lawsuit challenges the Trump administration’s cancellation of billions of dollars in funding for climate-friendly projects, primarily in Democrat-leaning states. It alleges that the moves were a violation of Congress’s right to...
Maryland and Virginia Democrats are pressing local utility DC Water over a recent wastewater spill that leaked into the Potomac River, an incident that has also sparked some political tension in the region. In a Wednesday letter to DC Water CEO David Gadis, the lawmakers said they were reaching out “to express our serious concern...
A new survey found that 1 in 4 Americans have a negative opinion of both major political parties ahead of midterm elections. Poll results from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 1 in 10 Americans feel good about both parties. The feelings follow the longest government shutdown in the country’s history last...
Director of the National Institutes of Health Jay Bhattacharya will serve as interim director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the reported exit of Jim O’Neill, a Trump administration official confirmed Wednesday. It was reported last week that O’Neill, who also served as deputy secretary of the Department of Health and...
