Two House committees issued a subpoena Wednesday to New Jersey as part of an effort to get the state's documents detailing how thousands of noncitizens ended up on its voter rolls.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to revive the Trump administration's policy barring taxpayer money from going to pay for drugs or operations for prisoners seeking to switch genders.
Massachusetts will serve as a testing ground on Election Day for whether voters regret marijuana legalization 10 years after voters approved the retail sale of the drug for recreational use.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) Senate campaign received nearly $54 million from the GOP-aligned Senate Leadership Fund’s (SLF) Texas affiliate, according to a filing. The Austin-based Texas PAC donated more than $53.8 million to Paxton’s campaign, based on filings to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The committee is affiliated with the SLF, which is...
The Supreme Court refused to clear the way for President Trump’s mail-in voting plan for the midterms on Monday over the dissents of two conservative justices, keeping intact a judge’s block that declared the plan unlawful. It’s the third time the Trump administration brought the plan to the high court’s emergency docket after groups have blocked the effort. Previously, the...
U.S. diplomatic facilities in four Gulf countries suffered around $184 million in estimated damages from Iranian military strikes, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog made public on Monday. The posts are located in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon watchdog said in the 44-page report, the first...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Clarity Act faces Senate test A cryptocurrency regulation bill is poised to face a key test on the Senate floor this week, as lawmakers weigh whether to advance the measure after nearly a year of negotiations....
The Trump administration on Monday gutted the rules governing the nation’s climate regulations for power plants. Here’s what you should know about the final rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): It axes most, but not all, power plant climate rules The rules, which have been announced but whose underlying text did not appear to...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) returned to the Senate Monday evening to cast his first vote since June 11 after spending months away from the Capitol recuperating from a fall he suffered at home. McConnell’s long absence and the trickle of information from his office about his condition fueled weeks of speculation about his health and...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said in an interview on Monday that he wouldn’t run for president in 2028 if former Vice President Kamala Harris ran for a third bid, pointing out that they’d both be fighting over similar bases of supporters. “First of all, electorally, it's a gift from God for everybody else. They’d...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told reporters he would like to see the Protect College Sports Act, the proposed landmark legislation regulating the big business of college sports, signed by President Trump live on ESPN's "College GameDay." "Our goal from the beginning was not just to squeak by with 60 votes but to get a big...
Sixty years of inaction in Washington have not made climate change go away. Hushing won’t either. In the meantime, the American people, present and future, are paying an increasingly intolerable price.
In today's issue: ▪ Calls for Congress to regulate AI ▪ Trump to remove tariffs on Irish whiskey ▪ Trump wants to keep a hand in Iran oil ▪ House GOP bets on Trump Congress returns this week to an eruption of fears about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) spurred by warnings from within the industry that...
Sen. Cynthia Lummis is urging congressional support for the bipartisan Clarity Act to establish cryptocurrency regulations and prevent companies from moving operations overseas.
Are we so far out of touch that now we offer political strategists, identity thieves, academic fraudsters and even actual robbers and murderers as the sympathetic face of the cause?
