President Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., poured an additional $5 million into the Texas Senate race, according to a new Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing published Saturday. The funds were earmarked for Del Ray Media LLC, a Virginia-based political media company, for TV and digital advertising against the Democratic nominee in this race, state Rep....
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday signed a legislation package aimed at safeguarding the state’s election process against potential interference in the upcoming midterm elections. The Democratic governor, who has repeatedly warned President Trump’s administration would attempt to meddle in these upcoming elections, signed 13 bills in Los Angeles. “Donald Trump won’t stop until...
FBI Director Kash Patel said Saturday the agency used AI to stop half a dozen school shootings and upped its use of the technology by 605 percent since he took the position. Appearing on Fox News’ “Saturday in America,” host Kayleigh McEnany asked Patel about a statement he made in March claiming the FBI had...
The Trump administration began construction on a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting through southwest Texas’s Big Bend region despite local leaders' pushback against the project. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told the Associated Press Friday that installation of 30-foot panels was already underway along this portion southern border. The construction started earlier this...
After President Trump announced this week he was banning Politico, CNN and MS NOW from accessing the White House, the three media outlets reported Saturday their journalists were denied access to the executive premises. White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) President Jacqui Heinrich called on the White House to “immediately” restore access to these journalists and...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) holds the highest net favorability rating of the Democratic officials rumored to be potential running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris, the party's presumptive nominee, according to a poll released Sunday. A plurality of voters, however, say they either don’t know or don’t hold an opinion of most of the...
Attorneys for Hunter Biden pushed back against a federal judge's threat to sanction them for making "false statements," while admitting their motion to dismiss Biden's criminal charges in California. In a filing Sunday with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Biden's legal team said they "never tried to mislead" the court...
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows's attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the Georgia election racketeering case and move it to federal court, pointing to the high court's recent ruling granting former President Trump some immunity in his federal election subversion case. In a petition to the Supreme Court, Meadows's lawyers...
Bangladesh restored mobile internet services on Sunday following an 11-day internet blackout in response to the days-long student protests over government job quotas. The country's 4G mobile internet services resumed Sunday, following a meeting with internet service providers and other leaders, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, the state minister for telecommunications and information communication technology, announced on...
Paradise, Calif., decimated by a 2018 wildfire, is once again facing the threat of an active blaze, as the Park fire takes hold in northern California. Paradise was one of several communities in Butte County, Calif., under a wildfire-related evacuation warning this weekend. The intense, sprawling nature of the wildfire has invoked references to the...
A blood test can determine whether memory loss is caused by Alzheimer’s disease with more than 90 percent accuracy, according to a new study published Sunday. A group of researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that a cutting-edge blood test can significantly outperform diagnoses from both primary care and specialist doctors. The study, published...
The second man injured during the attempted assassination against former President Trump has been discharged from a hospital in Pittsburgh, a spokesperson for the hospital group confirmed to The Hill. James Copenhaver, 74, was discharged from Allegheny General Hospital last Friday, a spokesperson for Highmark Health told The Hill. He was one of two spectators...
Vice President Harris is staring down the political reality that she could be the nation’s first female president, and her rapid rise is posing new challenges for Republicans and Democrats on how to approach gender-related issues when seeking to appeal to voters. While she would not be the first woman to lead Democrats at the...
Former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday endorsed Vice President Harris for president, joining a chorus of Democrats supporting her bid to replace President Biden as the party’s likely nominee. Gore, a prominent environmental activist, cited Harris’s past support for action addressing climate change in making his endorsement. “As a prosecutor, @KamalaHarris took on Big...
Former President Trump backed off a prior endorsement in a hotly contested Arizona House primary on Sunday, opting to give his “complete and total” support to both candidates. Trump previously endorsed Abe Hamadeh for the Arizona 8th District GOP primary against Blake Masters — both of whom ran unsuccessful statewide races in 2022 — but...
British television host Piers Morgan ripped into Vice President Harris, calling her the "most far-left senator in modern American history." Morgan, speaking on "Fox News Saturday Night," dismissed the scores of support Harris has received from Democrats since President Biden announced last Sunday that he would not seek reelection. "She's getting a fantastically amazing honeymoon....
An organizer of the Paris Olympics said that the drag performance during Friday’s opening ceremony was a nod to Greek mythology, not the Last Supper. Thomas Jolly, the artistic director for the ceremony, told French news channel BFM TV on Sunday that the inspiration for that scene was the Greek god Dionysus, according to NBC’s...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk slammed Vice President Harris as an "extinctionist" in response to a resurfaced video of the vice president discussing the "climate anxiety" young people have felt when thinking about their futures. "Shamala is an extinctionist. The natural extension of her philosophy would be a de facto holocaust for all of humanity!" Musk...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that he would oppose Supreme Court reforms on Sunday, going against reported ideas from President Biden that would impose more strict ethics requirements and term limits for justices. Graham told CBS’s Robert Costa on “Face the Nation” that he won’t work with Biden on any reform bill. “No, because he...
