911 EMERGENCY: An ambulance in New York City now takes an average of 13 minutes to reach someone in life-threatening distress.
That response time has risen five years straight...
Ilhan Omar insisted her real name is Ilhan Abdullahi Omar after a federal court filing listed her as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi in an immigration fraud probe.
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story MAHA leader resigns from administration Calley Means, a top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a leader in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, resigned from the Trump administration Thursday, less than two weeks before the...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Senators urge Hegseth, Rubio to release funding for Baltic Security Initiative A bipartisan group of senators are urging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to release the remaining congressional-approved funds for the...
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson (R) is sharing his concerns about rural turnout in his election, as early voting is underway across the Peach State. “I am concerned that rural Georgia still thinks we’re red and therefore they look at somebody like myself and my opponent and just say, ‘Well, there’s no comparison,’” Jackson said...
SpaceX investor Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, said he is “disgusted” by the recent events surrounding the slowdown of Starlink services in Ukraine, which impacted the country’s military capabilities. “As a SpaceX shareholder I am disgusted,” Gerber said Wednesday during an appearance on CNN. “I think that these decisions were strategically horrendous and from...
The controversy over Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring his Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s mother is pitting President Trump and Vice President Vance against Ohio’s Republican establishment less than two weeks out from Election Day. A number of Ohio Republicans, including Gov. Mike DeWine and Sen. Jon Husted, have denounced the ad, which...
Top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee demanded answers Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the agency’s funding of a controversial hepatitis B clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau. The CDC awarded $1.6 million last year to Danish researchers to conduct the study in Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West...
In today’s issue: Candidates in some of the most critical Senate and governor's races took to the stage for a final time Wednesday as voters have already started casting their ballots, with less than two weeks to go before Election Day. While President Trump is not on the ballot, he was at the center of the conversation...
The political polling industry is under new fire after a second company on Tuesday acknowledged it had falsified data in a series of polls released over the past year. The admission by Wedgewood Polls comes as Republicans question whether this year's midterm polls are wrong and are undercounting GOP support. Wedgewood's polling had been used by...
Senate Republicans are making a last-ditch effort to save former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in the Michigan Senate race by pouring money and effort into highlighting what they say are significant ties between Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed vigorously denies that he has any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist...
Top Trump administration officials are starting to point fingers squarely at SpaceX founder Elon Musk for the decision to slow down his company’s Starlink satellite internet services and its military counterpart Starshield for Ukraine, which has been muddled in uncertainty over the culprit. Looking to deflect the controversial move — which was swiftly admonished by...
Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton are in a dead heat for the Senate in Texas, according to new polling of one of the cycle’s most closely watched contests. Talarico notched 48 percent to Paxton’s 46 percent in new numbers from Emerson College Polling and The Hill, a result within the poll's margin of...
Democratic socialists have already made huge waves this cycle by knocking off a handful of House incumbents on their way to Washington. The big question now gripping the party is how disruptive they’ll be when they get here. “We don’t know how they will be part of the team,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said. “We...
