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The anti-incumbent wave crashes on Rhode Island

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee has a month to turn around primary challenger Helena Foulkes’ 20-point lead or become the first sitting U.S. governor to lose a primary in...

$570k pension for city lifeguard is just the tip of an iceberg of corruption

Peter Stein, the so-called “Boss of the Beach,” now collecting a $570,000 pension after...

Mamdani’s groceries will have him competing against . . . himself

Mayor Mamdani’s city-owned supermarkets are ill-considered for many reasons.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—August 8

2005—NARAL unleashes a mendacious television ad against confirmation of John Roberts’s nomination to the Supreme Court....

Army removes a top US general in Europe from command

The U.S. Army removed a top general overseeing forces in Europe from command in recent days, close to two months before his time in the role is slated to end, two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters, told The Hill on Friday. Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza was the commanding...

Closed-door AI framework blindsides tech policy community

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Closed-door AI framework catches tech policy sector off guard The Trump administration's decision to keep its new framework on government AI testing out of public view has blindsided the tech policy community, who waited months to see the controversial process ironed out. © Illustration / Samantha Wong; and...

RFK Jr. set to release food ingredient review

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story FDA's food ingredient review rule is coming In his quest to overhaul the food system, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to propose closing a loophole that allows food and dietary supplement companies to self-attest that new ingredients...

Trump administration targets Head Start for overhaul

The Trump administration unveiled plans Thursday to overhaul the early education program Head Start for impoverished children. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) — called “Reducing Federal Burden for Head Start Programs” — from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it will “restore flexibility to programs to meet local needs, reduce regulatory...

Senate confirms 74 Trump nominees: Here are 5 notable ones

The Senate confirmed dozens of President Trump’s nominees on Friday, the final day of session before the upper chamber of Congress broke for August recess. In a single 51-47 vote, senators voted to confirm a group of 74 executive nominees.  The vote fell along party lines, with GOP Sen. Cynthia Lummis (Wy.) and Mitch McConnell...

Trump restarts effort to fire Fed’s Lisa Cook

President Trump is reportedly renewing his effort to boot Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her position, despite the Supreme Court thwarting his earlier attempt in June. A letter from White House presidential aide Dan Scavino, dated Wednesday, said the president was “considering” removing her, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The...

Ex-White House official nominated as DOI watchdog

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Ex-White House official nominated as DOI watchdog President Trump has nominated a former White House official and Project 2025 author to be the Interior Department’s internal watchdog, a move that critics say could hurt the integrity of the office’s investigations. © AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster...

Alito to WSJ: ‘Obviously I’m here for another term’ 

Justice Samuel Alito shut down any notion he’s planning to imminently retire from the Supreme Court in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Friday.  It marks the justice’s first known comments on his future plans since NPR erroneously reported that the conservative jurist had announced his retirement on the final opinion day of...

Trump urges GOP to keep Senate in session until college sports bill passes

President Trump on Friday ramped up the pressure on Senate Republicans to cancel part of their August recess, this time urging embattled GOP senators to stay in Washington until they pass a bill to reform rules for compensating and recruiting college athletes. The measure has been bogged down in the Senate, and the disagreement over...

Spokesman for Chuck Edwards blasts Ethics panel, report: ‘Not driven by due process’

Rep. Chuck Edwards's (R-N.C.) spokesman Paul Shumaker slammed the House Ethics Committee panel that cited him for inappropriate behavior following Edwards dropping his reelection bid for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District.  In an appearance on PBS’s “State Lines,” Shumaker called out his issues with the House Ethics report that resulted in Edwards’s drop from the...

Judge rejects SPLC bid to dismiss case as ‘vindictive’ prosecution

A federal judge in Alabama denied the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) bid to dismiss a case brought by the Trump administration on the grounds it amounted to a vindictive prosecution, finding the civil rights nonprofit did not meet the bar to demonstrate the Justice Department was motivated by animus in bringing the case. Throughout...

Murkowski, Merkley demand answers on Trump’s Smithsonian disclaimers

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers are requesting more information from the Trump administration about its plans to install disclaimers outside of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.  GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.) — the chair and ranking member, respectively, on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and...

Hillary Clinton calls for unity within Democratic Party: ‘It can’t be a one-way street’

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Democrats on Friday to unify under the party's candidates, highlighting the growing division between establishment and progressive members amid the current wave of primaries. Clinton told journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher that, with Democratic candidates like Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed winning their races by slim margins, the party should...

Trump announces deals and investments to bolster mining

President Trump on Friday announced a slate of deals and investments that aim to bolster mining, something the administration has said will boost the economy and secure supply chains. Trump said during a mining roundtable that the Defense Department would sign a $1.4 billion loan agreement with Sila Nanotechnologies to build a battery facility in...

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