Artificial intelligence firms are on high alert for Election Day, taking a page out of social media firms' playbook to manage the flurry of information expected online in the coming days. After a dramatic few months for the AI industry, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are under pressure to ensure their products are feeding out...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Democrats are increasingly bullish they can deliver a major blow to Republicans in the midterms, viewing key GOP-held battleground House districts in Pennsylvania as central to their path to victory. Four of the state’s most closely-watched House races — involving Republican Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania’s 10th District, Brian Fitzpatrick of the...
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday on whether Colorado can require preschools that accept public dollars to admit the children of same-sex couples. It’s the latest battle at the intersection of religious and LGBTQ rights to reach the justices. The Archdiocese of Denver, a group of Catholic parishes and parents Daniel and Lisa...
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...
