President Biden is facing increased pressure from some high-profile Democrats who are calling for him to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race or be replaced as the party’s nominee following his poor debate performance against former President Trump. Biden, 81, faced off against Trump, 78, last month in the first debate of the 2024 general...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Senators will vote on Steward Health CEO subpoena The Senate health committee is launching an investigation into the bankruptcy of Steward Health, and will vote next week on a subpoena to compel Steward Health CEO Ralph de la...
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) joined the growing list of Democrats calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race Friday, suggesting in an interview that former President's Obama and Clinton should help vet new candidates for a "mini primary." Lofgren joined MSNBC Friday to discuss what would happen if Biden were to decide to...
The White House said Friday that is setting a goal of ending the federal government’s purchasing of single-use plastics by 2035. The Biden administration added that it would try to phase out federal purchasing of such plastic for food service operations, events and packaging by 2027. “Plastic production and waste have doubled over the past...
The president had a brutal week, but is heading into the weekend still atop the Democratic ticket, with his campaign beating back a barrage of private and public pleas for his exit. The president’s week was derailed by a positive COVID-19 test result — grim counterprogramming to the Republican National Convention amid an election where...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Wall Street Journal reporter gets 16 years in Russian prison Evan Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 on charges that he was spying on behalf of the U.S. government to collect secrets on the Russian military,...
Former GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie argued with “The View” hosts on Friday over who he would vote for in the upcoming election, saying neither former President Trump nor President Biden would earn his support. “I know you’re not voting for Trump. Would you vote for a Democratic ticket?” host Ana Navarro asked the former...
A federal judge on Friday declined to dismiss several criminal charges against George Santos, the ex-Republican House member expelled from Congress last year. Santos faces 23 counts connected to separate accusations he misled and mistreated campaign donors, lied on financial disclosures and inflated campaign finance reports. The former lawmaker, who has pleaded not guilty to...
As calls for President Biden to leave the 2024 presidential race grow, Democratic lawmakers from two states are taking a larger role in the effort to persuade the president to step away from his campaign: California and Illinois. As of Friday, six congressional Democrats from California and five from Illinois have asked the president to...
Employees of a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied migrant children repeatedly subjected minors in its care to sexual abuse and harassment, the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged in a new lawsuit. From 2015 through at least the end of 2023, multiple employees at Southwest Key Programs, the country’s largest private provider of housing...
