President Biden’s reelection campaign dropped a new ad that bashes former President Trump for his threats to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The 30-second ad, entitled “Terminate,” touts that Biden has protected the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and worked to expand it. The ad will air on television and digital across battleground...
Salvage crews are preparing to use explosives to separate the Dali container ship and the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore more than a month after it collapsed. The precision explosive charges will be used to free the parts of the bridge that are stuck on top of containers on the ship, Unified Command Petty Officer Ronald...
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb criticized Judge Aileen Cannon after she indefinitely postponed former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case. “All she’s really done today, though, is make official what everybody, including Jack Smith, already knew, which was she had no intention of getting this case to trial,” Cobb told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday. Cannon’s Tuesday order, issued...
Rudy Giuliani is having a hard time finding someone to help with the accounting duties in his bankruptcy case and may have to do it on his own, lawyers said in a filing Tuesday. According to the filing, Giuliani had an accountant helping him meet the accounting obligations in the case, but “he had a change...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent a letter to the families of victims of two fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes, looking to meet with them as it decides if the company violated a deal that allowed it to get out of criminal prosecution over the crashes. The letter, obtained and reported by ABC News,...
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) has won the Republican nomination for another term in the House, fending off a challenge from the right, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Spartz, who has represented Indiana’s 5th Congressional District since 2021, initially announced in 2023 that she would not run for reelection but later changed her...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Tuesday doubled down on his support for Israel shortly after the nation's forces seized control of Gaza's Rafah border crossing, where more than 1 million civilians are being housed amid the ongoing war. Asked on Fox News if he supports Israel going into Rafah, Fetterman said, "Well, I follow Israel...
{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story As Israel chokes off Rafah, US scrambles to salvage cease-fire talks The White House on Tuesday pushed to finalize a cease-fire agreement that would pause fighting in Gaza, even as Israel carried out a...
Columbia Law Dean Gillian Lester backed the school's graduates Tuesday after a group of conservative judges said they wouldn’t hire them following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests on the campus. Lester said in a statement that Columbia Law graduates are “consistently sought out by leading employers in the private and public sectors, including the judiciary,” Reuters...
The Senate’s push to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is coming down to the wire this week as they struggle to strike a time agreement and try to avoid a lapse of the program ahead of Friday’s deadline. Top senators said that while progress had been made toward extending the FAA’s authority for five...
The U.S. repatriated 11 Americans, six Canadians, four Dutch citizens and one Finnish citizen from northeast Syria on Tuesday, according to a statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “In conducting this complex repatriation and resettlement the Department coordinated closely with our interagency partners,” Blinken said in the Tuesday statement. “I would like to thank...
Israel’s push into Rafah and takeover of a key border crossing Tuesday has ignited international debate and condemnation as roughly 1.4 million sheltering civilians in the southern Gaza city were caught in the crosshairs of potential invasion. Israel late Monday began “targeted strikes” in eastern Rafah before seizing control of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing,...
Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) has come out on top of a crowded GOP primary in Indiana’s gubernatorial race, according to Decision Desk HQ. Braun, a first-term senator, beat out five other Republican hopefuls, including Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and former state Attorney General Curtis Hill. Emerson College Polling/The Hill polling from March found Braun with...
Former President Trump has won Indiana’s Republican primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. The win gives Trump, already the presumptive GOP nominee, another 58 delegates, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill, in a state he’s forecast to clinch this fall. Trump was the only active candidate on Indiana’s GOP ballot, but he was still up against his ex-rival,...
