Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday met with President Biden, buckling down on their support for Biden amid growing calls from white Democratic members for the president to drop his 2024 re-election bid. Sources familiar with the matter shared with The Hill that Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), chair of the caucus, extended the...
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are rallying around President Biden as scores of lawmakers in the party privately — and publicly — question his viability at the top of the ticket after his disastrous debate performance in Atlanta last month. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday both...
A $1 billion donation from Michael Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins University will make medical school free for nearly all students at his alma mater. The donation, which Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday, will cover 100 percent of tuition for medical students whose families earn less than $300,000. The gift will also cover living expenses and fees...
Senate Democrats returned to Washington on Monday voicing concerns about President Biden's future as the Democratic presidential nominee, setting up high-stakes talks in the coming days about a path forward for the party. While no Senate Democrat has gone as far as at least six of their House counterparts in calling for Biden to step...
Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) on Monday said he’s “getting pretty close” to joining the handful of House Democrats publicly calling on President Biden to withdraw from the race. In an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Peters said he wants to hear the Biden campaign acknowledge members’ concerns as legitimate and articulate a plan to...
Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) will not be in attendance for House votes this week, so she can prepare fish for her family. "This week, Representative Peltola will be in the state putting up fish with family to fill freezers for the winter. Mary's family—as well as her late husband's family—relies in part on her for...
Republican strategist Karl Rove suggested former President Trump and his team are celebrating as President Biden doubles down on his intent to remain in the race. "There's cheering in Mar-a-Lago for that sentiment,” he said Monday on Fox News’s “The Story” when asked about Biden reiterating that he is not dropping out. “Look, the polls...
The White House on Monday faced a round of intense questions about a neurologist who specializes in Parkinson’s disease who visited the campus several times in recent months. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was adamant during the daily press briefing about not naming the specialist, Dr. Kevin Cannard, citing privacy and security questions, even though his...
Model and rapper Amber Rose says she'll be among the speakers at next week's Republican National Convention. "It's True! I'm speaking at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee," the "How to Be a Bad Bitch" author, who was born Amber Rose Levonchuck, wrote to her 3.5 million followers on the social platform X on Monday. A representative...
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Diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) jumped up in recent years, especially among older Americans, according to new data. The data from FairHealth found a 4.8 percent increase in patients with STD diagnoses from 2020 to 2023. The 65 and older age group saw the highest increase in this period, with a 23.8 percent increase...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Anti-abortion groups reconcile with RNC stance After months of warning the national party and Trump campaign against watering down the official GOP stance on abortion, anti-abortion groups on Monday got behind language that calls for abortion policy to...
