The latest poll shows the incumbent Republican leading her opponent, local lawmaker Troy Jackson, whom the Democrats dropped in to replace Graham Platner.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that two giant pandas from China will arrive at Zoo Atlanta in the coming days, bolstering a loan program that at one time had lapsed as part of tensions between Beijing and Washington.
Increasingly anxious about the Iran war, senators are set to vote Thursday on a war powers resolution seeking to halt President Donald Trump's military action, which has been largely blamed for the spike in fuel prices and become a flashpoint in the midterm election.
At first glance, it looks like a typical Republican campaign advertisement. As images of President Donald Trump flash across the screen, the 30-second spot says "America will never be a communist country" and boasts about the "largest tax cuts in history."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told reporters he would like to see the Protect College Sports Act, the proposed landmark legislation regulating the big business of college sports, signed by President Trump live on ESPN's "College GameDay." "Our goal from the beginning was not just to squeak by with 60 votes but to get a big...
Sixty years of inaction in Washington have not made climate change go away. Hushing won’t either. In the meantime, the American people, present and future, are paying an increasingly intolerable price.
In today's issue: ▪ Calls for Congress to regulate AI ▪ Trump to remove tariffs on Irish whiskey ▪ Trump wants to keep a hand in Iran oil ▪ House GOP bets on Trump Congress returns this week to an eruption of fears about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) spurred by warnings from within the industry that...
Sen. Cynthia Lummis is urging congressional support for the bipartisan Clarity Act to establish cryptocurrency regulations and prevent companies from moving operations overseas.
Are we so far out of touch that now we offer political strategists, identity thieves, academic fraudsters and even actual robbers and murderers as the sympathetic face of the cause?
Two Senate candidates this year are hoping to do what only a handful of others have done in the last century: return to their old jobs in the upper chamber. Former Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and John E. Sununu (R-N.H.) are both running to win reelection to the Senate after absences. In Brown’s case, it’s...
Republicans are clashing over how to improve their weak polling numbers on the economy less than two months before Election Day, fearing that voter anger over high costs could sink GOP candidates in November. The boldest proposal, President Trump’s pledge to give every U.S. adult $5,000 if Republicans win the midterm election, has already drawn...
Louisiana State University head coach Lane Kiffin quickly became the face of what many argue is wrong with modern college sports as the college football season approached this summer. The 51-year-old expert recruiter and protégé of University of Alabama legend Nick Saban had ditched his former playoff-bound school Ole Miss for an in-conference rival. He...
The Trump administration’s pressure campaign on Cuba is probably the best chance for collapsing the country’s repressive, communist regime, high-profile Cuban political activists and survivors of the regime’s prisons told The Hill. But more effort needs to be given to including the Cuban opposition and democratic movement, they added. José Daniel Ferrer, a leading Cuban...
GOP leaders are betting the House on President Trump in this year’s elections. The midterm cycle is always a referendum on the sitting president, whether members of his party like it or not. And if there was a clear message from the Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas, it’s that GOP leaders have embraced that reality...
The Jefferson County, Pa., Coroner's Office on Sunday said a 40-year-old woman died from complications with measles, the state's third measles-related death this year. Coroner Greg Furlong wrote on Facebook that the woman, a Jefferson County resident, died on Saturday. He added that his office was working with the Pennsylvania Department of Health on this...
A new poll shows that Democratic voters are more driven to cast their ballots in the November midterms elections out of their opposition to President Trump more so than the party's platform. The CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday found that 54 percent of Democratic voters said they will vote for their Democratic candidate to Congress...
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday pushed back on questions about far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who he previously campaigned with. “There are Jewish voters in your state who are concerned about your relationship with Piker. You have condemned antisemitism but not called out his rhetoric directly. Why not?” CBS News’s Weijia Jiang asked...
