House Republican leaders are sending members home Wednesday until after the November election, condensing their pre-midterm schedule in Washington for the second time.
The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool released Wednesday by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier said Thursday that he made "a mistake” in not including a specific clip of former President Trump during his interview with Vice President Harris on Wednesday. During his interview the previous day with the vice president on Fox News’s “Special Report,” Harris and Baier sparred over a clip concerning former...
American teen tobacco use has fallen to a 25-year-low, according to new data analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that was released on Thursday. The use of any tobacco product by U.S. middle and high school students has dropped from 2.25 million in 2024 compared...
Vice President Harris on Thursday swiped at former President Trump with jokes about his election denialism and his criticism of Detroit during a pre-recorded video address to the Al Smith charity dinner in New York City. Harris did not attend the dinner in person as she campaigned in Wisconsin. Instead, she addressed the event via...
Father and his 14-year-old son were indicted by a grand jury Thursday on murder charges over the September Georgia high school shooting where four people were killed. The Georgia grand jury indicted Colt Gray, 14, on 55 counts, including murder in the killing of two students and two teachers at the Apalachee High School Winder,...
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said Thursday was “a good day for the whole world” after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. “Well, it's a good day for the whole world that this particular terrorist who was responsible for planning the October 7 attack on Israel has met his just desserts,...
Yahya Sinwar's death has raised many questions about the future of the war in Gaza, perhaps none more pressing than who will replace him as Hamas's leader. The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been killed in a routine operation in the southern Gaza Strip....
Incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) will face off with GOP challenger Sam Brown Thursday night in the Nevada Senate debate. The forum will be the only chance for Rosen, a first-term senator, and Brown, an Army veteran backed by former President Trump, to debate. The Hill/Decision Desk HQ's aggregate of polls shows the Democrat ahead...
Vice President Harris on Thursday night made an appeal to women voters at a rally in Wisconsin, arguing former President Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to women’s health care. She played clips during her rally of Trump saying he will protect women, that women will no longer be thinking about...
Former President Trump is attending the annual Al Smith dinner in New York City on Thursday evening — a major fundraising event hosted by Catholic Charities of New York. The dinner, which traditionally includes presidential candidates, was held virtually in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the former president and President Biden dialed in....
Ryan Routh, the man charged with attempting to assassinate former President Trump at his Florida golf course last month, asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday to recuse herself from the case because Trump appointed her and has praised her handling of his classified documents indictment. Routh’s attorneys said the “unprecedented circumstances” could create...
A Florida judge issued a temporary restraining order against health officials in the state, citing the First Amendment and siding with a group that brought forward a lawsuit alleging that its political speech had been censored in the state after it sponsored an ad in support of an abortion rights ballot initiative. The lawsuit came...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk kicked off a campaign swing across Pennsylvania Thursday in support of former President Trump, underlining the importance of the battleground state in the rapidly nearing election. “I can't emphasize enough that Pennsylvania is, I think, the linchpin in this election,” Musk said at a town hall in Folsom, Pa. “This election,...
The Oregon secretary of state said it temporarily shut down an election phone line because the “system was overwhelmed” by out-of-state misinformation. The office said Thursday in a press release that the proliferation of phone calls occurred due to conspiracy theories spreading online, claiming the state’s election officials kept former President Trump out of Oregon’s...
Democratic candidates in the most competitive House races overwhelmingly outraised their Republican opponents between July and September, buoyed by a surge in enthusiasm when Vice President Harris replaced President Biden as the party’s nominee. They also largely lead in overall fundraising this cycle, a major warning sign for Republicans despite their public projections of confidence....
