Tuesday's South Carolina Republican Senate runoff election between Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman will test President Trump's endorsement power. MAGA Inc., a super PAC that backs Trump, has invested in Graham's election, and Trump touted an Oval Office meeting with the senator Monday night. Norman trailed Graham in the state primary two weeks...
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced visit to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, CBS News reported. Flight-trackers spotted a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport plane flying from Riga, Latvia to Moscow on Tuesday. The CIA and the White House did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for...
A Wisconsin state prosecutor declined to charge technology billionaire Elon Musk with election bribery for his $1 million check handouts to voters during the state's Supreme Court election last year. In a letter shared Tuesday with The Hill, La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke (D) said his office decided against pressing charges since, in...
Pakistan and Iran on Tuesday announced that "significant progress" has been made toward ending the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, according to Pakistan's interior minister, Reuters reported. Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan's army chief, met with Iranian officials in Tehran about measures to prevent the conflict from growing and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which...
Dolly Parton — a country music songwriting legend and philanthropist who captured and united fans across the generational and political spectrum — has died. The "9 to 5" star "died peacefully" at 80 on Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn., her publicity team announced. "A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly...
The state of Florida wants to roll back a requirement that public and private school children receive four vaccines before enrolling. A proposed rule from the state's Health Department would allow students to attend school and enroll in daycare without first receiving hepatitis B, varicella (chickenpox), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. ...
Is Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed distancing himself from controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker? That’s the headline, but it’s not quite true.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she believes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) will give a boost to her reelection campaign. “I think he’ll be helpful,” Hochul said Monday after Politico asked about the chance of the New York City mayor stumping for her. In a recent poll, Hochul led Republican Bruce...
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell (R) announced Monday he will file a temporary restraining order against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon amid his ongoing efforts to fund a private recount of the state’s gubernatorial primaries. His campaign said in a statement that Simon’s office had put Lindell “in an untenable position” by placing restrictions on...
Democratic governors are expressing their dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s Monday decision to lift a lower court’s block on the Trump administration’s executive order restricting mail-in ballot voting. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill criticized the move as a “terrible decision” in a social media post. “States run elections, not Donald Trump,” she wrote. “I will...
President Trump’s approval rating for his second term has reached a new low, according to a new poll. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, the president’s approval rating hit 33 percent, a 14-point slide from the start of his second term, when it was at 47 percent, and a 4-point slide from about a month ago, when...
A man is facing federal charges over allegations that he impersonated a federal officer on several occasions and forged Chief Justice John Roberts’s signature on fabricated Indiana court documents. Joshua Culver was indicted last week in the Northern District of Indiana on four counts of falsely impersonating an officer of the United States and one...
