Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra clashed nonstop for an hour Wednesday in the sole televised debate in their contest for California governor, presenting sharply contrasting visions for how they would deal with homelessness, soaring household costs and high taxes in the nation's most populous state.
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense & National Security Defense & National Security The Big Story Iran’s attack on Israel built on lessons from Russia Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel showed that the Islamic Republic has learned key lessons from Russia’s war in Ukraine, employing a strategy to overwhelm...
Maine will become the latest state to join an interstate effort to elect the nation’s president by a popular vote, Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Monday. Mills said she will allow the legislation to become law without her signature, paving the way for Maine to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a proposal aimed at guaranteeing...
The House on Monday settled its procedural business on a bill to reform the nation's warrantless surveillance powers, kicking the controversial reauthorization over to the Senate. The Monday vote came after a tie in the chamber on an amendment that would have added a warrant requirement to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
The first criminal trial of an American president got underway in downtown Manhattan on Monday. Former President Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records. The underlying events revolve around a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the last stages of the 2016 presidential election campaign. The payment was made...
NEW YORK — Former President Trump became the first former commander in chief to stand trial on criminal charges Monday, but it got off to a sluggish start with even Trump himself appearing to nod off at times. For hours, the parties battled over a series of pending legal issues, keeping the hundreds of prospective...
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments on presidential immunity at the Supreme Court next week. It came after the judge earlier delayed a decision on allowing Trump to attend his son Barron's high school graduation in May. The attempts by Trump to take...
Rudy Giuliani lost his appeal Monday to dismiss the $148 million verdict handed to him last year in a defamation lawsuit brought by two former Georgia election workers. Giuliani filed for bankruptcy days after a Washington, D.C., jury ordered him to pay $148 million to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in a defamation trial...
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden made a combined income of $619,976 last year, and Vice President Harris and her husband made $450,299, according to the couples’ 2023 tax returns the White House released Monday. The president and his wife paid an effective federal income tax rate of 23.7 percent, the documents showed, and...
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, said a hearing on the Change Healthcare cyberattack that disrupted health care system payments across the country will be coming soon. Speaking at the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Annual Membership Meeting, Wyden said, "We'll be heading towards a hearing under the system of how we...
Gasoline prices are expected to rise over the next few days — but not necessarily because of turmoil in the Middle East. Over the next day or so, states in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic are expected to switch to more expensive gasoline blends for the summer, leading to higher prices at the pump. “This week happens...
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) predicted former President Trump would "play 'Apprentice'" to decide on his vice-presidential pick and advised that he look to Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) as his best choices. McCarthy on Monday spoke at an annual membership meeting of the American Health Association,...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says he would support replacing Florida’s six-week state abortion ban with a 15-week statewide ban that he believes would reflect broader consensus within the Sunshine State over how to protect unborn life. Scott says any 15-week statewide abortion ban should include the standard exceptions for cases of rape, incest and to...
