The Senate majority leader race is on. Or is it? Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is answering the calls of his Democratic colleagues who want new leadership when they take back control of Congress next year and is offering himself as an alternative to Charles E. Schumer.
At about 10:04 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the Texas Senate race for James Talarico. Roughly 16 minutes later, Ken Paxton conceded. The Republican attorney general had spent the better part of a year, in one of the most expensive Senate contests in American history, trying to hold a seat in a […]
Voters across the country rebuked President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, producing a powerful blue wave in the first major electoral test since his sweeping victory in 2024. The results were expected in battleground states, but not in Texas, a longtime bastion of conservatism that has maintained a […]
“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]
Only in the United States can a company founded just six years ago become central to the efforts to maintain superiority over China or any other country in the broad spectrum of artificial intelligence. Moreover, only in the U.S. do the deep pools of risk capital exist that enable a new company to reach a […]
Alaskans have rejected another effort to repeal the Last Frontier’s unique, ranked choice voting system and open primaries, Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) projects. Alaska adopted ranked choice voting and open primaries in a 2020 ballot measure, first implementing the system in the 2022 election cycle along with new campaign finance rules. But opponents haven’t let...
Jensen Huang’s departure from Nvidia threatens the stability of the AI industry and the market as a whole, as experts express differing outlooks on the chipmaker’s future. Huang resigned as CEO of the company he built from the ground up, Nvidia’s board of directors announced Thursday, after The New York Times reported on a pair...
Democrats are preparing for a knockout fight with the White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ) after a series of letters to legislative leaders saying the administration would seek to rebuff their probes. “I think Congress has to flex all of its power,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the House Oversight Committee's ranking member and...
A public feud between former senior Health adviser Calley Means and former White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is heating up as Means accuses Wiles and her former deputy chief of staff James Blair of corruption — highlighting the deepening rift between the MAGA and “Make American Healthy Again” (MAHA) movements. Means claimed Wiles...
Fresh off their midterm victories, Democrats are already facing a postelection reality check. In the span of two days, Democrats stumbled on two major fights, with some members missing a critical procedural vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the party failing to call for a recorded vote on a GOP veterans bill they...
Republican senators are warning that President Trump’s aggressive push for GOP leaders to use the budget reconciliation process to ram $350 billion in spending for the Defense Department through Congress could risk a government shutdown next month. Senators in both parties say a deal is coming together behind the scenes to fund the federal government...
President Trump called outgoing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and told him to fight for his job ahead of his resignation, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two people briefed on the conversation. Huang resigned as CEO of one of the world’s most valuable companies after reports emerged of multiple extramarital affairs, including one...
Justice Samuel Alito, speaking to the Federalist Society on Thursday, warned against any potential congressional action to defund the Supreme Court as he defended the importance of an independent judiciary. “Congress can turn off the lights at the Supreme Court and stop everything from happening if they want to defund their activities. And there are...
Democrat Eric Jones will win the race for California’s 4th Congressional District, Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) projects, ousting incumbent Rep. Mike Thompson (D) in a single-party battle. The race had gone uncalled since Election Day, but Jones was projected the winner on Thursday, leading Thompson by more than 4 percentage points. Thompson is the only...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said he would challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for the role of majority leader on Thursday, setting up a showdown in the upper chamber as Democrats prepare to retake the majority. In a post to the social platform X, Van Hollen called for “new leadership” in the Senate....
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion into building two data centers in Texas and Arizona, the company announced Thursday, marketing them as projects that will boost local communities amid backlash surrounding such facilities. “These investments will expand local tax bases, generate substantial new revenue for schools and public services, and create...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Poland says Pentagon has 'greenlit' permanent US base Poland said this week that the Pentagon leadership has "greenlit" a permanent U.S. military presence in the country, but the final decision will be made by the White...
Some Senate Democrats are looking to use a looming government funding deadline to force the Trump administration to end the war in Iran. While party leaders have yet to decide on whether to risk a shutdown, the desire for action from a mix of progressives and moderates could throw a wrench into the end-of-year legislative...
