The man who allegedly breached security and yelled a racial slur at NBC News’s “Today” show host Craig Melvin was arraigned Friday. Andrew Truelove, 41, was arraigned on one count of burglary in the third degree as a hate crime and a count of menacing in the third degree as a hate crime, according to...
President Trump on Friday said he met in the Oval Office with newly appointed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-S.C.), the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and asked her to run in the special Republican primary for a full term in the Senate seat. “We have known each other for a long time...
House Republican leaders are preparing to bring a stopgap measure that would keep federal agencies funded through Dec. 4 to the floor next week , kicking off a high-stakes effort to avert a potential government shutdown before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Republicans unveiled the text of the short-term measure, also...
The Trump administration announced Thursday it will reduce the length of visas issued to foreign journalists working in the U.S., while imposing an even shorter limit on reporters from China. The new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule replaced a long-standing “duration of status” system with fixed-term stays, drastically shortening visas to 240 days, while...
Memorial services for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will be held at the end of this month, his office announced Friday. The late senator’s communications director, Taylor Reidy, shared that services will start in Washington, D.C., on July 28, followed by memorials in the city of Columbia and Pickens County in South Carolina. Reidy...
Lake Powell, a Colorado River reservoir that serves as a source of hydroelectric power, is in danger of reaching very low levels, according to a new federal analysis. A study released by the Bureau of Reclamation this week projects that at the end of March 2027, Lake Powell’s elevation could be just less than 3,492 feet. That level would...
Click in for The Hill's midday newsletter with all the latest news. {beacon} Happy Friday! The World Cup Final is happening on Sunday! I’m going to miss all the soccer and the comradery that has come with it. Oh and exciting news for gymnastics fans, the 2026 U.S. Classic is happening this weekend! So many gymnastics...
Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg disputed President Trump’s revived claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential race during his primetime address Thursday evening. The White House touted “breaking news” on the state of election security in the U.S. ahead of Trump’s speech Thursday. His administration released a trove of files it alleged substantiated...
White House correspondent Julia Manchester; The Hill’s senior vice president of editorial content, Bill Sammon; and Decision Desk HQ's (DDHQ) director of data science, Scott Tranter, discuss DDHQ's midterm forecast at the Hill Nation Summit. The forecast shows Democrats are in position to win the House this fall while the Senate is on track to...
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin went further than President Trump in an address on election security Friday, asserting foreign adversaries could hack voter machines, threatening states that refuse to partner with his department and saying he would use “maximum pressure” to root out any illegally cast votes. While Trump in his primetime address Thursday called...
President Trump on Thursday night accused China of interfering with American elections and declassified documents that he argued point to lax security at the ballot box. He launched a series of claims regarding the 2020 election. Critics and election experts quickly noted the documents contained no new revelations and said Trump was laying groundwork to...
