A NORAD F-16 reportedly intercepted an aircraft violating restricted airspace over Camp David Saturday while President Donald Trump spent the weekend there.
In Michigan's Senate race, Republican candidate Mike Rogers acknowledges that prices are high, but says the state should elect a senator who can work with the president to bring them down.
Former President Trump returned Wednesday to Pennsylvania for the first time since he was shot at a rally outside of Pittsburgh earlier in the month, where he sought to characterize Vice President Harris as a “phony” and welcomed a challenge to compare their records. Trump repeatedly attacked Harris, who is the likely Democratic nominee after...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP nominee for vice president, defended his running mate’s attacks Wednesday on Vice President Harris’s biracial heritage, calling the reaction “hysterical” and comparing Harris to a “chameleon.” Vance was asked by reporters traveling aboard his campaign plane about former President Trump’s comments earlier in the day in which he mocked...
Vice President Harris on Wednesday responded directly to former President Trump after he mocked her heritage earlier in the day, saying the American people deserve better than the former president. Trump said that Harris was “always of Indian heritage” and then “happened to turn Black” during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention. “It was...
Former Arizona attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh has won the Republican nomination for the House seat representing the state’s 8th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. Hamadeh defeated a crowded field that included his main opponent, former Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters, to win the primary to succeed retiring Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.),...
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that death by firing squad and other forms of execution commonly held to be cruel and unusual are legal in the state if the inmate requests the method of execution. The ruling comes after the state passed a law in 2021 allowing executions by firing squad and electrocution...
Vice President Harris halved former President Trump’s 2024 lead in a newly relaunched national polling average that replaces President Biden with Harris as Trump’s likely Democratic opponent. The first iteration of Cook Political Report’s (CPR) new average, relaunched on Wednesday, shows Trump leading Harris by 1.3 points — 47.5 percent support to 46.2 percent. In the...
United Airlines and Delta Airlines canceled flights to Tel Aviv this week amid rising tensions in the region, the companies announced separately on Wednesday. United will suspend all service to Tel Aviv until further notice, a United spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill, citing “security reasons” for the decision. The suspension begins Wednesday...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is making a campaign appearance Wednesday in Glendale, Ariz., a critical state former President Trump wants to swing back to his column in November. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (D) is considered among the top candidates to be Vice President Harris's running mate, underscoring how importantly both sides see the state. Vance...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story After Hamas leader's death, region inches closer to war The assassination of Hamas’s top political leader in Tehran is intensifying fears of a wider war while cooling hopes to end the Gaza war and secure a...
A United Nations report released Wednesday said Palestinian detainees were subjected to torture and abuse while in Israeli custody. The United Nations Human Rights Office report investigated Palestinian detentions from October to the end of June and found those detained are sometimes imprisoned without a clear reason and generally held in prolonged secret detention, sometimes...
Presented by PhRMA — The CDC has confirmed 13 bird flu cases in the U.S. since March of this year. Nine of the cases were detected in Colorado with three most recently confirmed last week. Officials described the symptoms as mild, with pink eye being the primary sign. {beacon} Health Care Health Care The...
Iran and its proxies are vowing to punish Israel for the apparent assassination of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, bringing the two countries closer to an all-out war in the Middle East. Israel, which has not acknowledged the strike in Iran, said one of its primary goals in the war against Hamas...
The U.S. has reached a plea deal with three prisoners accused of helping to plan the 9/11 attacks and who are being held at the infamous Guantanamo Bay facility. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi all reached a plea agreement with the U.S., the Defense Department announced...
