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."
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would require presidents to make a series of disclosures about their relatives’ foreign earnings — drafting a laundry list of obligations stemming from the GOP inquiry into President Biden. The legislation requires presidents and vice presidents to disclose anything...
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is blasting the revival of the bipartisan Senate border deal, opposing both its content and its potential to upend any forward motion to reform the immigration system. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is bringing the legislation back from the dead to prop up vulnerable Democrats including Sens. Jon Tester...
Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, and Sandra Bullock are among the female celebs voters would be most likely to support if they made a political run, according to a new poll. Nearly 30 percent of those surveyed in the Suffolk University/USA Today poll released Wednesday said they would be "more likely" to support former talk show host Winfrey...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday pushed back on claims that former President Trump’s political opponents are out to kill him as “outlandish and dangerous” and urged GOP colleagues to tamp down conspiracies he worries could lead to violence. “What Donald Trump said falsely suggesting his political opponents are out to kill him...
