A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing to be released on bail, despite objections from the victim's family, after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a Wednesday interview that she “would never recommend” President Biden share the debate stage with former President Trump, shortly after the two agreed to two debates before November's election. “I myself would never recommend going on stage with Donald Trump,” Pelosi told CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday. “But...
The House approved a trio of bills Wednesday aimed at supporting law enforcement during National Police Week — legislation largely opposed by Democrats, as leaders on the left decried GOP attempts to downplay the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Consideration of the three bills — which face slim odds of moving in the Democratic-controlled Senate — is part of...
The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said they are launching an investigation after a small bag of cocaine was discovered inside its headquarters. Police found a “roughly one-inch by one-inch zip lock bag with a small amount of a white powdery substance, which field tested positive for cocaine.” It was found on the floor inside...
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that House Republicans will release their proposed top-line number for government funding for most of 2025 later this week. Cole said Wednesday afternoon that the powerful funding committee is aiming to release the top-line number, as well as the House GOP's proposed allocations...
The North Carolina state Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public, even for health reasons. Republican supporters of the ban said it would help law enforcement crack down on protesters who wear masks. They say demonstrators are abusing COVID-19 pandemic-era practices to hide their identities following a wave...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Putin in China as US slams Beijing for supporting Ukraine war Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing as his forces have mounted a major new assault in Ukraine and amid U.S. criticism of China for supporting...
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a new congressional map that includes a second Black majority House district in Louisiana can be used in November after a lower court rejected that map earlier this month. The high court issued a stay on a federal judge panel’s decision two weeks ago that halted the...
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he would have pardoned former President Trump if he had been in President Biden's position when federal indictments were brought against him. In an interview set to air in full Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney said Biden would have looked like the “big guy” compared to...
Former President Trump’s Boeing 757 clipped a parked plane while taxiing at a Florida airport Sunday morning. Trump landed in Cincinnati on Wednesday, his day off from his hush money trial, for an intimate, high-dollar fundraiser, but he arrived in Ohio without his jet nicknamed “Trump Force One.” According to an accident and incident notice from the...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story HHS suspends funding to group at center of COVID lab leak The Biden administration has suspended federal grants to the infectious disease nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), the group at the center of a controversy over the origins...
Democrats called out a GOP candidate for secretary of state in Missouri over a recently posted video in which she advised voters not to be “weak and gay.” In the video posted on her X account Sunday, Republican Valentina Gomez is seen running down a street, wearing a bulky vest, with the song “The Show Goes...
Sen. Mitt Romney is taking a puppet-inspired swipe at President Biden and former President Trump agreeing to a pair of presidential debates, likening the two to a famed, grouchy Muppet duo. "It'll be entertaining, informative," the Utah Republican said Wednesday of the debates between Biden and Trump, according to multiple reports. "Like the two old guys on...
A political appointee in the Interior Department announced her resignation on Wednesday in opposition to President Biden’s policy toward Israel in its war against Hamas that has resulted in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis for Palestinians. Lily Greenberg Call, a political appointee serving in the Office of the Secretary of Interior, issued her resignation in protest,...
