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Donalds rips opponent’s ‘complete 180’ as Dem’s own 2016 words come back to haunt him in tightening gov race

Byron Donalds attacks David Jolly's shifting stances on abortion, immigration and drilling, calling them political convenience in Florida's governor race.

WATCH: Mike Lee explodes on voting error that ‘keeps happening’ as huge number of noncitizens found on rolls

Mike Lee railed against noncitizen voting after a report found 30,000 noncitizens were mistakenly added to voter rolls since 2000 across 11 states.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their...

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill calls on lieutenant governor to resign over alleged ethics violations

New Jersey's governor on Thursday called on the state's lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state's ethics and discrimination rules.

Trump, the midterm elections, Congress, and the war

TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]

Homan says ICE isn’t ‘going anywhere’ amid immigration enforcement scrutiny

White House border czar Tom Homan stood behind Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thursday, saying the agency is "not going anywhere” despite recent scrutiny surrounding its escalated enforcement operations. “You can hate us all you want. We're not going anywhere,” Homan said during an introductory speech at Department of Justice (DOJ) Victims of Violent Crime...

Live updates: Xi, Trump meet at dinner for high-stakes talks; UN delegates walk out of Netanyahu’s remarks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began speaking before the United Nations General Assembly Thursday afternoon, prompting several diplomats to walk out. Netanyahu ripped those who left during his remarks, urging other "moral cowards" to do the same. Demonstrators have gathered outside of the UN's New York City headquarters to protest the Israeli prime minister's speech...

Iran’s president claims Supreme Leader Khamenei healthy, able to govern

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed Thursday that Supreme Leader Mojataba Khamenei, who has been absent from public view for months, is “completely” healthy despite reports that he could be deceased or brain-dead. Questions have surrounded Khamenei’s condition since he was reportedly seriously injured during U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Feb. 28 that killed his father and predecessor,...

GOP lawmakers concerned after F-35 equipment ended up in China

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story GOP lawmakers concerned after F-35 equipment ended up in China Republican lawmakers are concerned and are demanding more information from the Pentagon after sensitive F-35 parts were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong and are now in...

Error causes backlog of thousands of Texas voter registration applications

A Texas system error left tens of thousands of voter registration applications unprocessed for months, forcing county election officials to race to process the large backlogs weeks out from the midterm elections. The Texas secretary of state’s office alerted election officials to the issue last week involving a problem with the Department of Public Safety’s...

Whitehouse vs. White House on permitting timeline

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story WH pushes for permitting deal before the midterms As a key Democratic negotiator says a deal to speed up infrastructure projects could be months away, the Trump administration is saying it may not be willing to wait that long. © Natasha Kaiser Sen. Sheldon...

Jennings on $5K dividend: ‘I don‘t know that that is the right idea’

Right-wing commentator Scott Jennings expressed ambivalence Wednesday about President Trump’s offer to give $5,000 to American adults if Republicans win this year’s midterms. “I don't know that that is the right idea here,” Jennings told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on "The Source," talking about the proposal.  “What the right idea is, is growth, which we have,...

White House TV pool in limbo amid high stakes Xi visit

The White House television pool was in limbo Thursday as the status of the major networks’ place in the press pool remained unclear following the reinstatement of CNN’s access to White House grounds. Journalists from ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News were on hand at the White House Thursday ready to cover Chinese President Xi...

FDA pick sidesteps tough questions 

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story FDA pick sidesteps tough questions Dr. Heidi Overton, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), walked a fine line Thursday on vaccines and abortion, largely dodging difficult questions from senators. © Greg Nash During the...

Trump complains CNN, MS NOW didn’t cover ‘made for Television’ Xi visit 

President Trump blasted CNN and MS NOW on Thursday over their coverage of his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which did not include live video coverage and came as a federal judge reinstated the outlets' White House access. "CNN and MSDNC, to show you how fake they are, today refused to cover one of...

Five questions hanging over Trump’s meeting with Xi

In today's issue: ▪ Xi’s state visit kicks off ▪ Judge strikes down media ban ▪ Debate over how to tackle diesel costs ▪ Forecasters shift races toward Democrats Chinese President Xi Jinping is meeting with President Trump today for high-stakes talks that could touch on several points of tension between their countries, including artificial intelligence...

Did we just hear the Iranian regime’s last speech at the UN?

When Masoud Pezeshkian stood before the United Nations, he spoke in the name of Iran. That was the first deception. The Islamic Republic — the Shia Caliphate — is not Iran. Khomeinist ideology has been imposed upon a civilization that long predates the order established in 1979. Yet Pezeshkian carried the same exhausted script: victimhood,...

The enemy within the judicial gates

Judges’ views on climate change are being influenced by an organization bragging that its purpose is to build and enable “a network of judges and scientists advancing climate science education for the judiciary.”

Are the Russians coming?

Winter is soon coming, and so too is a growing dread across Europe. It is dawning on European capitals that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s only conventional path to victory in Ukraine may lie through the Baltic States. Kyiv’s fortress Donbas in eastern Ukraine remains largely impenetrable. Despite Russian claims in advance of last week’s Duma elections that...

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