Republican Sen. Susan Collins vowed she won't be "intimidated" after her Biddeford office was vandalized, while her Dem rival Troy Jackson stayed silent on the act.
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday adopted an amendment to the annual defense policy bill that would push the Department of Defense to rehire U.S. service members who were fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. The measure, which would require the Pentagon to create a robust plan for rehiring those service members, was adopted...
Hunter Biden is now expected to stand trial on federal tax charges in September after a California judge agreed to his request to delay the trial as he faces a separate gun trial beginning next month, The Associated Press reported. During a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi pushed the tax trial to...
A group of nearly 100 tech workers from Kenya wrote a letter to President Biden ahead of Thursday’s Kenya state dinner at the White House, urging him to end “modern day slavery” in the country's tech sector. The authors of the letter work as data labelers, content moderators and artificial intelligence (AI) workers for American...
Most Americans say they will likely tune in to the first presidential debate next month, according to a new survey. Former President Trump accepted President Biden’s offer to debate one another ahead of the November election. The first debate has been set for Thursday, June 27. According to the survey conducted by Quinnipiac University, 72 percent...
The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against more than 90 officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) over their response to the 2022 shooting. The lawsuit, filed against 92 individual Texas DPS officers, noted the officers had active shooter response...
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) received a rebuke on the House floor Wednesday after he remarked on former President Trump’s ongoing hush money trial, comments that were deemed “offensive.” The spat — which grinded the House floor to a halt for more than an hour — began after McGovern, during debate on a procedural rule, described Trump’s current...
A top Russian official on Wednesday denied U.S. claims that Moscow had launched a weapon into low-Earth orbit that could potentially attack other satellites, calling it “fake news.” Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said a day earlier that last week the Kremlin launched a satellite assessed as “likely a counter-space weapon presumably capable...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story What we learned from the primaries in Georgia, Oregon and Kentucky A handful of states saw key primary contests on Tuesday, teeing up November matchups in closely watched House races and underscoring voter frustration with both President Biden and...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) introduced a measure Wednesday that would require political advertisements to disclose the use of artificial intelligence (AI) software, in what could be the federal government’s first foray into regulating the use of the technology in politics. If adopted by the full commission, advertisers on broadcast television, radio and cable would...
An attorney for a 9-year-old girl whom a former American Airlines flight attendant is accused of secretly recording inside a plane lavatory is calling one of the airline's defense strategies "shocking and outrageous."
