U.S. and Ukrainian officials are working to reorient how Ukraine is handling its recovery in order to insulate it from political changes in both Washington and Kyiv without a key player: Penny Pritzker, President Biden’s special envoy for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Pritzker only planned to serve a one-year term, which ended this month. But her impact over...
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said he is skeptical that the end of cease-fire negotiations are near, following an announcement from the White House that talks will continue into next week. An anonymous U.S. official told the Associated Press Friday that mediators are preparing for a cease-fire and hostage-swap deal. “The real question is,...
The Washington Post Editorial Board on Friday slammed Vice President Harris over her newly-announced economic agenda, which they characterized as “populist gimmicks.” “Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech Friday was an opportunity to get specific with voters about how a Harris presidency would manage an economy that many feel is not working well for them,” the...
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), one of the nation's largest and oldest veteran advocacy organizations, on Friday condemned former President Trump’s recent statement comparing the Medal of Honor to a presidential award for civilians, calling his remarks “asinine.” “These asinine comments not only diminish the significance of our nation’s highest award for valor, but also...
Former President Trump took a swing at Vice President Harris’s newly debuted economic plan Friday, claiming her proposals will make costs “100 times worse.” “If you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 times WORSE if Kamala gets four years as President,” he wrote on Truth Social. The former president fired off three...
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said the Harris campaign has accepted an invitation to join a roundtable with members of one of the country’s largest unions. "We look forward to Vice President Harris joining a roundtable of rank-and-file Teamsters to discuss the issues of importance to workers,” Kara Deniz, the Teamster’s assistant director of communications,...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market authorization to the first at-home syphilis test amid a decades-long rise of cases in the U.S. The test, which detects syphilis antibodies in human blood, provides a result within 15 minutes. “Access to home tests may help increase initial screening for syphilis, including in individuals who may...
Americans are seeing more pro-former President Trump ads than those supporting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, according to a study from the Wesleyan Media Project. The study, which came out on Wednesday, found that since July 12, 44,000 ad airings have supported Trump. Half of those came from MAGA Inc., which released around...
Most Americans have a positive outlook on jobs in the criminal justice realm as a whole, but less were satisfied with the roles Vice President Harris has previously held, a new survey found. The YouGov poll, released Thursday, found that respondents held the highest regard for forensic scientists (78 percent), social workers (71 percent), police...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Harris unveils new health care platform Vice President Harris unveiled her economic plan Friday, leaning into aggressive populism and making it clear she plans to build off the Biden administration’s health care accomplishments if elected to the Oval...
Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her economic agenda Friday, and much of her plan involves taking the health care accomplishments made by the Biden administration further. Speaking in North Carolina, Harris vowed that under her administration, Medicare negotiations would continue and grow to encompass all Americans, not only Medicare beneficiaries. “Just yesterday we announced...
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision denied the Biden administration’s emergency request to partially reinstate its new Title IX rule. The sweeping changes to Title IX, which protects against sex discrimination in schools, cover sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time. Various Republican state attorneys general have persuaded judges to block implementation...
