Newly elected Democrats at a Denver conference urged their party to work with Donald Trump on costs and policy rather than focus solely on investigations.
Wholesale prices rose 0.3% in October, easing from the previous month, though inflation remains elevated and the Federal Reserve is likely to raise rates in December.
The Senate Banking Committee wants testimony from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about whether the U.S. adhered to rules around the export of advanced computer chips to China.
On Sept. 29, a FEMA official swore in a deposition that she went to law school as “a night student” while working for the agency. Two weeks later, her school’s subpoenaed records showed day classes in fall 2018 and spring 2019 and a degree from its “day division.” She ran FEMA’s Continuous Improvement Program in […]
The primary obligation of any sovereign government is the absolute, unapologetic defense of its borders. Controlling who enters and who stays is central to national survival — a reality Americans understand intimately as the crisis at the U.S. southern border reshapes domestic politics. Yet, while the United States grapples with its own crisis of continental […]
The giddy mix of anticipation and despair that Democrats are experiencing today should be familiar to them. It’s the old “nauseously optimistic” feeling that has been their lot in every election since 2016. All the dashboard indicators point toward big gains for the blue team in Congress and state capitols from coast to coast, but,...
The House battlefield in Tuesday’s midterms consists of dozens of races in largely purple districts where majorities are won and lost. But as GOP leaders scramble against the odds to salvage their fragile majority — and the favored Democrats fight to run up the score — both sides are paying particular attention to a much...
Senate races are tightening in the closing days of the midterm cycle, expanding the battleground map and fueling both parties’ dreams of game-changing pickups. A handful of tight Senate races are soaking up the spotlight: Ohio, Iowa and Kansas are toss-ups in the latest ratings from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), The Hill’s partner, while Texas, Maine,...
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) condemned President Trump’s recent low flyover on Halloween in a Monday letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought. The flyover occurred last Thursday during the White House’s Halloween party with Air Force One making two...
Chaos in Michigan is raising the stakes even higher in one of the most closely watched Senate battles in the nation. The political world was agog on Sunday when Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) endorsed the GOP’s Senate candidate, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), over her party colleague Abdul El-Sayed. Democrats immediately and fiercely denounced Stevens,...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Monday went after former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who is running for Senate in Michigan, over his claims that more young people are “against the Jews.” In an appearance on CBS News’s “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday, Rogers said “the next generation of kids thinks it's really cool to be against...
National Guard members in at least seven states will have some form of a role around Tuesday’s highly charged midterm elections. As Americans head to the polls, plain clothes National Guard soldiers are set to help monitor ballot boxes in seven Washington state counties, Iowa guardsmen are tasked with monitoring and defending election networks, and...
The Supreme Court on Monday quickly rejected the Trump administration’s effort to force California officials to set aside 20,000 ballots it claims belong to likely noncitizens and must be investigated. The court’s one-sentence order contained no explanation and had no noted dissents. California and immigration rights groups question the veracity of the administration’s list and...
Thousands of voters in Washoe County, Nev., received mail-in ballot return envelopes with the word “FALSE” written on them. A spokesperson for the county’s Registrar of Voters, George Guthrie, said in a statement to The Hill that the affected envelopes were “not limited to voters of any particular political party.” “The inclusion of the word...
President Trump’s political capital is on the line ahead of the midterm elections as a potential blue wave threatens his final two years in office. Trump has crisscrossed the country, holding 28 in-person campaign rallies in addition to a series of tele-rallies. The president has made stops in Republican strongholds like Ohio, Texas, Iowa, Kansas...
A group of Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged Frank Bisignano, the CEO of the IRS, to answer for why the agency has delayed publication of data that shows how much money owed by taxpayers wasn't paid on time. The lawmakers wrote in a letter to Bisignano that the IRS not yet releasing its tax gap...
Public school closures are accelerating across the country, and voters in several states have a chance to speed up or slow down the process on Tuesday. Closures are largely determined by school board members and affected by a district's funding situation, which itself is downstream from state legislatures and governors' mansions. With school board seats...
