Voters rejected the “billionaire tax” in California — but approved a variety of other taxes, especially at the local level. It was a remarkable result in an election in...
Maryland landowners have rushed to the Supreme Court to ask the justices to step in and halt a power company's attempt to survey their land in preparation for transmission lines the residents say will be used to build more power-sucking data centers in the metropolitan region.
The push to oust Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is gaining momentum, with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is poised to become House speaker in January, saying he's a "hard yes" on an impeachment resolution slated to come up for a vote as soon as this week.
After Stephen Miller was selected as White House chief of staff, his wife, conservative influencer Katie Miller, said she is stepping back from her podcast on Sunday. “I make every decision based on what’s best for my children and our family. With @StephenM taking on this new role for President Trump, I’ve decided to stop...
Democrats’ sweeping victory Tuesday has scrambled conventional wisdom around the 2028 Senate map. Emboldened party leaders see the world as their oyster and are looking ahead to expanding their majority with a map where suddenly anything seems possible. “Some of the very same states where we won this election will offer new opportunities to...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Manolo Bentancur is talking about the conversation he had with the former commander of U.S. Border Patrol, Greg Bovino, when Bentancur saw Bovino at his popular east Charlotte bakery Sunday afternoon. "He said, 'Well, I can be wherever I want; it's free," said Bentancur. "I said, 'This is private...
Sailors and crew members on the USS Abraham Lincoln, which recently departed the Middle East after it was stationed in the region as part of the U.S. conflict with Iran, have a port call scheduled after 250 days at sea, USA Today reported Monday, citing family members. Texts to the outlet said the Lincoln planned...
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Monday clashed with Fox News host Jesse Watters on a slew of topics, including immigration enforcement and the Iran war, along with culture war topics, prompting the host twice to let him "just answer the question." The interview on "Jesse Watters Primetime" kicked off by talking about immigration...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday said that “no one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass,” in a post on the social media platform X. The video comes after he faced backlash for meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law. The New York Times reported on Sunday that the two met...
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Monday clashed with Fox News host Jesse Watters in a wide-ranging interview, often full of crosstalk, that covered culture war topics to the candidate's faith to gas prices. El-Sayed, a progressive, appeared for roughly half an hour on "Jesse Watters Primetime," where the host played clips of past...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Back-to-school season fuels growing measles concerns With back-to-school season underway, students are returning to class amid the worst year of measles in recent U.S. history, record-high vaccine exemptions reported among kindergarteners and continuously changing immunization guidance under the Trump administration. ...
Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s junior liberal justice, excoriated her colleagues for lifting a block on President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order on Monday, saying it “needlessly injects chaos” into this year’s elections. “It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who...
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke business and tourism visas from up to 200,000 migrants who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum in the U.S. on a rolling basis — a move that would trigger the largest mass visa revocation ever, The Associated Press reported Monday. The State Department is expected to...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Monday voiced his support for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) after the congressman received blowback for meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law. A reporter asked Mamdani if he supported Jeffries were he to become Speaker if Democrats reclaim the House following the fall midterm elections....
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on Monday said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in recent weeks to create an opportunity for future discussions. “I think knowing Jared Kushner, I think he's used to keeping lines of communication open. These are some of the things that he does repeatedly,...
President Trump’s super PAC MAGA Inc. spent more than $827,000 to support Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) ahead of the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff on Tuesday, marking the group’s most significant spending in months. The filing with the Federal Election Commission, which was made public on Monday, marks the group’s first independent expenditure since March...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump bets on economic chokehold on Iran over military strikes, for now Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the Trump administration’s economic pressure on Iran is hurting the regime “the most right now,” but did not...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for a new test for Alzheimer's disease, marking the fourth time such a blood test has been approved in less than two years. Roche announced Sunday that the FDA had granted approval to its Elecsys Phospho-Tau blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. It's the fourth such...
