Minnesota federal judges coordinated via email threads and templates to handle habeas petitions during Operation Metro Surge, raising judicial ethics questions.
The Green Party will appear on Nevada’s presidential ballot in November, a state judge ruled Monday, tossing out an appeal from state Democrats and setting up the potential for the third party to bleed votes from Vice President Harris. The Green Party has not appeared on Nevada ballots since 2008. The party’s 2024 petition for...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will remain on the North Carolina ballot after a state judge rejected an appeal from the North Carolina Democratic Party. The North Carolina State Board of Elections ruled last month that Kennedy’s party, the We the People Party, did qualify for the state’s ballot. Wake County Superior Court...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not appear on New York’s presidential ballot in November, a state judge ruled Monday, finding he falsely claimed residency in the state. Judge Christina Ryba said the room in the New York City suburbs that Kennedy used to claim residency wasn’t a “bona fide and legitimate residence,...
Monday’s highly anticipated conversation between former President Trump and Tesla founder Elon Musk on X was delayed by tech issues, which Musk blamed on an apparent cyberattack. Musk, who owns X and has endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential race, posted that there appeared to be a “massive DDOS,” or denial-of-service attack, targeting the platform....
Tech billionaire Elon Musk will interview former President Trump on Monday night on Musk's social platform X, marking the former president's latest effort to take the spotlight in a tight race against Vice President Harris. The "live conversation" will be "unscripted with no limits on subject matter," Musk wrote Sunday, adding it "should be highly...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a "record-breaking backlog" of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new report by the SSA Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
An international sporting court rejected an appeal by Team USA on Monday against an Olympics decision to strip American gymnast Jordan Chiles of her bronze medal, claiming it has no way to reverse the move. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped Chiles on Saturday of the bronze medal for the women's artistic floor exercise final,...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Investigator in GOP-led probe of Afghanistan withdrawal resigns A senior investigator has resigned from a GOP-led probe into the Biden administration’s deadly and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, accusing the Republicans of holding back...
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy clashed with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday over Vice President Harris’s beliefs about President Biden’s border policy. Doocy asked Jean-Pierre about Harris’s commitment to hiring more border agents, concluding that the vice president must disagree with Biden’s approach to the southern border. “How long have you guys...
The FBI confirmed Monday it was launching an investigation after the Trump campaign said it was hacked and some of its internal documents were leaked. “We can confirm the FBI is investigating this matter,” the agency said in an email, declining to respond to other questions from The Hill. A Friday report from Microsoft pinned...
A senior investigator has resigned from the Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee probe into the Biden administration’s deadly and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, accusing the panel of holding back its full power in examining the failures of the U.S. pullout. Jerry Dunleavy, a former journalist and author of a book detailing first-person...
