President Trump is headed for a showdown with Democrats and members of his party after Election Day over Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s future leadership of the Pentagon, the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war. Democrats are stepping up their demands that Trump fire Hegseth after the midterm elections and warning they won’t support funding...
Federal Reserve officials will decide whether to raise interest rates again on Wednesday, as persistent inflation strains Americans ahead of the midterm elections. Annual inflation was 3.7 percent in September, according to the consumer price index (CPI). That marked an increase from 3.4 percent in August and showed inflation remains entrenched in the economy amid...
A bruising midterm election for Republicans could complicate Congress’s next government funding fight, as lawmakers return to Washington facing uncertainty over how President Trump will respond to potential GOP losses. Congress has passed a stopgap measure, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), to keep the government funded through Dec. 11. Lawmakers in both parties...
The floodgates are about to open in the 2028 presidential race. For the last year, a parade of would-be candidates has quietly — and sometimes unabashedly — tested the waters for a White House bid, traveling to a string of early voting states while meeting with donors and trying out a message with the electorate. Once...
Silicon Valley is bracing for a firestorm of scrutiny should Democrats take control of Congress next year, underscoring how the industry’s efforts to get on President Trump’s good side last year became a political liability. After two years of a GOP-controlled House and Senate, Democratic lawmakers are expected to bring the heat on tech firms,...
FBI agents raided a California home as part of an investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Tuesday, adding to a rapidly lengthening list of law enforcement actions that have a political component, just one week before the midterm elections. The day before, it emerged that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was seeking, for...
Super PAC Guardrails Alliance will launch a digital ad campaign Wednesday seeking to tie Ohio Sen. Jon Husted (R)'s past support for data centers to campaign donations he received from tech executives like venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The 30-second ad, first shared with The Hill, highlights Andreessen's past donations to Husted's Senate run against former...
The cost of the U.S.’s war against Iran has gone up to $47 billion, an increase of more than $3 billion since last month, as President Trump mulls launching strikes against the Islamic Republic after the U.S. midterm elections. The biggest chunk of the cost is munition replacement at $29 billion, according to an Oct....
Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) on Tuesday leaned into President Trump’s recent campaign trail comments on his physique. “The president's coming in, tomorrow, again to Ohio, third time in less than 30 days. He'll be in Chillicothe,” Husted said at a campaign event Tuesday. “Don't worry, I was in the weight room this morning working out,”...
Progressive Twitch streamer Hasan Piker filed a defamation lawsuit against conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings on Tuesday, accusing him of falsely claiming Piker advocated lynching Black Americans after airing an edited video of his remarks. The 38-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., centers on an Aug. 11 episode of “The Scott Jennings...
With one week to go before the midterms, President Trump arrived Tuesday afternoon in Texas, taking the stage to stump in Corpus Christi for GOP candidates before making his way to Lubbock to do the same. He's in the Lone Star State hoping to boost support for GOP Gov. Greg Abbott's reelection bid and state...
Presented by Alliance for Aging Research {beacon} Health Care Health Care PRESENTED BY The Big Story Kennedy sets out on the final leg of his campaign push A week out from the midterm elections, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is back on the road stumping for vulnerable GOP candidates and promoting his...
A federal magistrate judge criticized the Justice Department (DOJ) during a lengthy hearing on Tuesday for attempting to tack on new charges overnight in a case against two former FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about their knowledge regarding the federal investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 election. "Why today on...
