Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D) on Friday said in a post on the social platform X that the Margate Police Department, which is in his district, informed him the day before the election about "a potential plot" to threaten his life. In the statement, Moskowitz said a man was arrested near his home with a...
The Department of Justice on Friday announced a lawsuit against the Mississippi state Senate for discriminating against a former Black staffer. The woman, a former staff attorney in the state’s Legislative Services Office, was paid about half of what her white counterparts were paid. The Justice Department's claim argues the state senate violated Title VII...
Control of the House has yet to be determined, as a number of critical races remain too close to call, leaving lawmakers — and voters — waiting to see which party will hold the majority next year. The sprint to 218 seats, however, is nearing the final stretch, after a handful of additional races were called...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has overturned a 65-year-old rule that required judges to identify and give engagement rings to the wronged party in a break-up. “More than six decades ago, we recognized that an antenuptial ring generally is understood to be a conditional gift and determined that the donor may recover the ring following...
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) said the Democratic Party has made its own mistakes with a targeted demographic of voters, much like the GOP. “We have a challenge. We have our own kind of 'childless cat ladies' situation: 'Bros.' People refer to these young guys as bros, and clearly that’s not a positive term,” Fetterman told the...
The Biden administration is soon expected to take the next steps over a contentious lands issue in Alaska. A source told The Hill that next week the administration is expected to release a draft environmental study that could indicate whether the administration plans to move ahead with a controversial road and land swap through the...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) suggested Democrats may have won the presidency if President Biden stepped aside sooner, saying “it would have been different.” “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told The New York Times. “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step...
The “high-tech hound,” as the Secret Service has been known to call it, was filmed walking the perimeter of the Palm Beach property alongside an agent.
Leonard Leo, a judicial activist who played a central role in the Supreme Court’s conservative shift, panned rumors that two of the court’s leading conservatives may retire so President-elect Trump can replace them. Trump’s victory has raised public anticipation that Justice Clarence Thomas, 76, and Justice Samuel Alito, 74, will step down during the president-elect's...
A former health care worker who illegally leaked the health records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday. Trent Russell, 34, worked as the transplant coordinator at Washington Regional Transplant Community when Ginsburg was undergoing cancer treatment in 2019. The Bellevue, Neb. native had access to...
Billionaire Elon Musk joined President-elect Trump's call earlier this week with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a sign of how Musk's close relationship with Trump could manifest itself as he prepares to take the White House. A source confirmed to The Hill's partner network NewsNation that Musk was on the call Trump had with Zelensky on...
An armed 13-year-old student was arrested hours after being stopped from entering an elementary school in Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday, according to police reports. The Kenosha resident had previously researched school shootings and fled Roosevelt Elementary School on foot when confronted by staff. He claimed to go to the school to sell candy, detectives...
