DALLAS — Republicans are increasingly worried that North Carolina’s Senate race is slipping out of contention.For months, they had argued that a post-Labor Day infusion of cash could jolt...
Republican politicians expressed outrage after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to laugh on camera during a memorial for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The California man who was captured on video last year while hurling large rocks at immigration officers during the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles was slapped with three years in prison.
The electricity grid that powered America through the 20th century will not work for this one. America is entering a new frontier of electricity demand. Growth in domestic manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and the electrification of heating and transportation are driving an anticipated 25% increase in power demand over the next 10 years. Meanwhile, the problems […]
President Biden said that he spent too much time on policy and not enough time on politics while reflecting on his presidency in his final interview just days away from leaving office. Biden sat down with MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Thursday after he gave his farewell address to the nation the night before. O’Donnell...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Bien says goodbye to the troops President Biden on Thursday continued his farewell tour with wide-ranging final remarks to U.S. service members, touting his defense record while praising the military and urging them to remember their oath...
China’s vice president will attend President-elect Trump’s inauguration, according to a Thursday statement from the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson. “At U.S. invitation, President Xi Jinping’s special representative, Vice President Han Zheng, will attend the inauguration ceremony of President Donald Trump on January 20 in Washington, D.C.,” the statement read. “China follows the principles of mutual respect,...
A Missouri man who crashed a rented U-Haul into the security barriers close to the White House in 2023 was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison, court documents show. Sai Varshith Kandula slammed the rented truck around Lafayette Square near the White House in late May 2023. He then exited the vehicle and pulled...
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) signaled during an interview that he could be open to voting “yes” on Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ). Coons said during his Thursday appearance on CNN that the most important thing he was looking to hear from Bondi during the Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee...
Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a tearful goodbye while warning of the risks of "grave injustice" for those who abuse the Justice Department's power. Much of Garland's parting remarks were a defense of the agency he's led the last four years while making veiled nods to the anxieties of those with a stake in the...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump’s nominee for attorney general, was “terrified” of contradicting the incoming president in her confirmation hearing before the Judiciary Committee. “She was terrified, I think, of contradicting Donald Trump in any way, saying anything to displease Donald Trump,” Schiff stated during a Thursday interview on MSNBC. “The...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story UnitedHealth CEO blames drug companies for high costs In his first public remarks since the murder of a top executive, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty acknowledged systemic flaws in the U.S. health care system but placed the blame...
Three Republican-led states will be allowed to move forward with a lawsuit to restrict access to mifepristone, a Texas federal judge ruled Thursday, months after the Supreme Court rejected an earlier argument in the case. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was appointed during President-elect Trump's first term, said Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can intervene...
Democratic North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein issued an executive order Thursday that he believes will further protect reproductive health care access across the state. The order directs Cabinet agencies to protect women’s medical privacy, protect doctors providing abortions in the state and not cooperate with efforts to impose penalties, investigations or prosecutions of those...
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to shake up leadership on the House Intelligence Committee sent shockwaves throughout the panel and beyond, fueling concerns on both sides of the aisle about the influence of the MAGA-right and how sensitive national security matters will be handled in the looming Trump era. Johnson declined to reappoint Rep. Mike...
President Biden on Thursday continued his farewell tour of Washington, D.C., with wide-ranging final remarks to U.S. service members, touting his defense record while praising the military and urging them to remember their oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. “Our commitment to honor, to integrity, to unity, to protecting and defending not a person or...
