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President Trump will hit the campaign trail Friday in South Carolina to rally support for Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) ahead of the state's Republican runoff next week, when she's set to face off against Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). Trump’s appearance comes as Graham faces scrutiny for a rough debate performance earlier this week, after which...

President Trump said Friday he's never seen so many job applications in his life in response to the opening created by Karoline Leavitt's decision to leave her post as White House press secretary. Asked by reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland about whom he was considering to replace Leavitt, Trump declined to give a...

The Pentagon fired the publisher, editor in chief and at least one reporter at Stars and Stripes, a historically independent military news outlet, Friday as the department has looked to reshape its coverage in recent months.  The Department of Defense (DOD) dismissed Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer and Middle East correspondent Lara Korte, Stars...

President Trump Friday defended his decision to temporary suspend higher tariffs on ground beef imports, saying it’s “what the people want.” “We want to get the beef prices down so we will get them down a little bit,” Trump said before boarding Air Force One to fly to South Carolina. “That’s what people want, that’s...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story GOP backlash grows to Trump beef intervention GOP lawmakers and cattle ranchers are immediately raising alarm bells over President Trump’s decision to temporarily lift certain tariffs on imported ground beef to mitigate the cost for American...

The Interior Department has recently shuffled at least 25 senior career staffers, giving them different roles at the department that oversees the nation’s public lands, parks and other resources, a source familiar told The Hill.  The employees who were shuffled to new positions at the department belong to the senior executive service (SES), a group...

A Texas court on Friday cut the amount Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay to a family affected by the Sandy Hook shooting after they were subject to harassment when he claimed the attack was a hoax. The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals ruled unanimously to reduce the damages awarded to Neil Heslin...

Walmart says it's doubling down on lower prices with its $2.9 billion tariff refund.

Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked a ruling that was set to halt construction on the White House ballroom later Friday, ruling that work can briefly continue as the Supreme Court mulls the Trump administration’s emergency plea to intervene. It delays, for now, a lower court’s deadline to stop above-ground construction by the end of the day. ...

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) is maintaining his lead over former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Whatley in the state’s Senate race, according to a new poll released Friday. A High Point University Poll found the Democratic candidate had a 5-point advantage over his GOP opponent among likely North Carolina voters. Fifty...

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) announced Friday he is backing GOP Rep. Ralph Norman (S.C.) in the race to serve a full term in the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) seat.  Sanford, who generally refrains from offering political endorsements, said in a statement shared on social media that he felt “compelled to offer”...

The federal government has unveiled its short-term plans for Colorado River water cuts from California, Arizona and Nevada — issuing a plan that’s largely in line with what the states themselves have proposed and sparing them from more dramatic cuts for the time being. The Interior Department announced Friday that it would require these states,...

President Trump has demanded a liberal think tank retract a critical report on his National Guard deployments by Friday evening, threatening to file a $5 billion defamation suit if it doesn’t. In a nine-page letter sent Monday by Trump’s personal attorney, which was reviewed by The Hill, he claimed the Center for American Progress (CAP) “manufactured”...

Vice President Vance is heading back to his Ohio hometown Friday afternoon, as he looks to sell President Trump’s economic agenda to voters ahead of the November midterms. Vance will deliver remarks at Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works, a steel plant where his grandfather worked for nearly four decades. He is expected to tout the administration’s efforts...