Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Anticipation surrounds potential Teamsters endorsement While the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said it has historically waited until after the party conventions to endorse, joining its fellow large unions in endorsing the Democratic ticket is not a...
U.S. Army Pvt. Travis King is expected to plead guilty to several charges the military has brought against him, according to his lawyer. King was deployed to South Korea but expected to return home in July 2023, when he ran into North Korea during a tour of a town on the border. King, who is...
A new lawsuit brought by the Democratic Party and backed by the Harris-Walz campaign was filed Monday to challenge recent changes to Georgia’s election certification rules. The lawsuit, targeting Georgia’s State Election Board, contends that “chaos” will ensue in November if a series of last-minute rule changes by the unelected panel are allowed to stand....
The replacement of Vice President Harris for President Biden at the top of the ticket has tilted the races for the White House and Congress in the direction of Democrats, though all three fights will be close, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ)/The Hill’s updated analysis of its election forecast. Harris has a 55 percent...
Red Lobster plans to close nearly two dozen more restaurants across the country by the end of this week, as part of its ongoing bankruptcy protection proceedings.
Dueling Monday events focused on the assassination attempt against former President Trump highlighted the challenge that the official House task force investigating the attack could have in keeping the effort bipartisan and apolitical. In its first in-person and public official action, members of the bipartisan task force toured the Butler, Pa., Farm Show site where...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Record number of Americans killed by heat in 2023: Study Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the...
More than 200 former aides to the three GOP presidential nominees who preceded former President Trump in 2016 — former President George W. Bush, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) — endorsed Vice President Harris on Monday. The majority of the group also endorsed President Biden in 2020. The group wrote...
Several Trump allies including Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani will stand trial on Jan. 5, 2026, on charges they conspired to subvert Arizona’s 2020 presidential election results, a judge said Monday. The trial date falls just one day short of what will be the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, where a mob...
Special counsel Jack Smith asked an appeals court to revive the documents case against former President Trump, repeatedly accusing Judge Aileen Cannon of having “erred” in tossing the case after determining he was unlawfully appointed. The brief does not otherwise call for Cannon to be removed from the case — though the 11th Circuit Court of...
Sales of houses in the lowest price tier jumped in July, a sign the housing sector may be coming back to life after being bludgeoned with interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. Pending sales in the “starter home” category climbed 10.2 percent since July 2023 according to figures real estate company Redfin released Monday....
