Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world...
New Jersey's governor on Thursday called on the state's lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state's ethics and discrimination rules.
TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]
Chukwunonso Eze entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in 2015 and received deferred action under both Biden and Trump before he allegedly killed a UMass Dartmouth football player.
Shelby Busch, vice chair of the Maricopa County Republican Committee in Arizona, threatened to lynch the county’s top election official. In a video, Busch said if Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer “walked into this room, I would lynch him.” Richer, who is up for reelection, posted the clip Monday on the social platform X. He...
The fate of Karen Read, a Massachusetts woman accused of killing her police officer boyfriend in 2022, is now in the hands of 12 jurors. They will determine whether she intentionally struck her boyfriend with her SUV and left him to die in the cold, or if law enforcement officers framed her, as her lawyers...
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) proposed barring the use of defense funds for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. Rosendale filed an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, his office announced Tuesday. The amendment states that the bill would defund “assisted reproductive technology that includes any infertility treatments or technologies including IVF to ensure human...
Former President Trump last week in Wisconsin called President Biden “weak, failed and incompetent” and said he “doesn’t have a clue.” In Philadelphia on Saturday, Trump called Biden the “ worst president in the history of our country” and suggested he was spending several days at Camp David “sleeping…because they want to get him good...
The National Weather Service (NWS) is experiencing a vast network outage disrupting numerous operational functions as extreme weather continues to grip the country. The “widespread network outage” began on Monday at approximately 5:30 p.m. E.D.T. and has continued into Tuesday, a spokesperson from NWS said in a statement. The outage has hampered NWS’s ability to...
Voters in New York’s 16th Congressional District will head to the polls Tuesday to determine whether progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) will remain in his seat or if centrist George Latimer, who has the backing of high-profile figures like Hillary Clinton, will replace him. The explosive and expensive fight has put competing special interests, outside spending, and personal attacks front...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill Monday that bans people from intentionally releasing balloons into the air in a new conservation effort. The bill intends to minimize the number of balloons flying over the ocean and washing ashore. According to the legislation, starting July 1, people who are caught intentionally releasing balloons could...
The House Ethics Committee moved to expand its investigation into Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) on Tuesday, over claims that she misused office funds and violated campaign finance laws. The committee first opened a probe into Cherfilus-McCormick in December to determine whether the congresswoman “may have violated campaign finance laws and regulations in connection with her...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Bowman's last stand in heated New York primary Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the New York Democrat who made national headlines when he pulled a fire alarm on Capitol Hill during a tense House floor vote earlier this year, is fighting an...
The House Judiciary Committee is set to weigh a contempt referral for President Biden’s ghostwriter, seeking to tee up criminal charges after failing to secure audio of the president’s interviews. The committee subpoenaed Mark Zwonitzer in March after requesting both the ghostwriter’s notes and audio recordings of his conversations with Biden. “Special Counsel Hur’s report unequivocally...
