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Schumer tanks popular insider trading ban in Dem effort to derail Republican’s agenda ahead of midterms

Senate Democrats blocked a GOP bill combining a stock trading ban with voter ID requirements, with Chuck Schumer calling it "trickery" and "skullduggery."

GOP lawmaker’s fraud crusade takes dramatic turn as scandal engulfs his own career

Utah State Rep. Trevor Lee, a Republican who championed anti-fraud bills and praised Nick Shirley, now faces mortgage fraud charges himself.

Trump DOJ investigating Dem group in Texas after viral undercover video sparks massive uproar

A viral undercover video showing a Texas Majority PAC employee describing a "Paid Relational Program" has now triggered a DOJ investigation.

Explosive sleeper issue could fuel midterm shakeups, top Republican predicts: ‘You’re gonna see surprises’

Tom Emmer says fraud is the top issue driving Minnesota voters to the polls and predicts Republican "surprises" in several midterm elections.

Secret phone-record seizure sparks personal lawsuit from GOP senator

Marsha Blackburn's lawsuit targets Jack Smith personally, arguing the special counsel was never lawfully appointed and violated her constitutional rights.

Wisconsin politicians joke about Lake Michigan name change

Wisconsin politicians made jokes out of President Trump’s executive order aiming to rename Lake Ontario, jesting about the renaming of Lake Michigan, another Great Lake. On Thursday, the president put his signature on an executive order formally changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid U.S.-Canadian trade tensions. “We’re going to be changing...

Dingell plans legislation to void Trump’s Lake Ontario renaming

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) plans to introduce a bill Monday that would nullify President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The one-page “Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act” bill would ensure the executive order “shall have no force or effect” and “restore the name of Lake Ontario,” according to documents obtained by...

Hemp ban awaits Senate returning from break

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story Hemp ban awaits Senators returning from break When Congress returns from August recess next week, House Republicans looking to quickly pass stopgap funding legislation will need to navigate the same potential minefield on hemp that almost tripped up the Senate. ...

FDA approves new COVID-19 shots

The Food and Drug Administration approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday for people at higher risk, clearing the way for manufacturers to begin shipping them to pharmacies and physicians' offices. The agency greenlit new formulations of the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, the companies said. FDA also approved a non-mRNA shot from Sanofi, which...

USS Theodore Roosevelt being deployed to Middle East

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story USS Theodore Roosevelt being deployed to Middle East The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is expected to sail to the Middle East in the coming weeks to relieve another aircraft carrier as the U.S. military in...

NTSB: Temporary Ellipse site factored into Marine One incident

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report Thursday blaming the location of a temporary Ellipse site for an incident in early August when President Trump’s Marine One helicopter came within a mile of a passenger jet. The report stated that the helicopter attempted to contact air traffic controllers twice at Reagan Washington...

3 Stars and Stripes staffers sue Pentagon over firings at military news outlet 

Three Stars and Stripes staffers sued the Pentagon in federal court Thursday, looking to prevent last week’s firings by the Department of Defense (DOD) at the military-focused newspaper.  Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte filed the complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the...

Trump gives GOP breathing room on data centers

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Trump toes line on data centers as GOP pushes back Republicans’ growing skepticism of data centers is forcing President Trump to balance his steadfast support for the industry with pushback from his party ahead of the midterm elections. © Alex Brandon and Gabriela Passos, Associated Press While Trump has doubled...

Trump seeks to cut report’s worst-case climate scenarios

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump seeks to cut report's worst-case climate scenarios The Trump administration is looking to change a 2023 federal climate report. © Manuel Balce Ceneta, Associated Press The administration proposed to reframe how the Fifth National Climate Assessment sees its worst-case scenarios after U.N. scientists said earlier this...

Trump officials cast doubt on Pennsylvania measles death claims

Top Trump administration health officials are openly questioning the circumstances of two deaths that Pennsylvania officials attributed to measles.   “We don't know exactly what happened in Pennsylvania yet,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in an interview Thursday on Fox Business. “We don't know if the children died...

Letter signed by Democratic senators calls on ICE to halt electric shock gloves

A group of mostly Democratic senators pressed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to not use gloves that can electrically shock people in a Thursday letter. In the letter addressed to ICE Acting Director David Venturella, the senators said that they were writing “to express deep concern about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans...

All eyes on Warsh in Wyoming

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story All eyes on Warsh in Wyoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is under the microscope as he heads to Jackson Hole for the Wyoming town’s signature economic symposium Friday, where eagle-eyed investors will be searching for...

How an inside ‘scoop’ revealed Pentagon links to pro-Trump influencer

A Utah software engineer, who runs a massive pro-Trump social media account that has drawn attention from the likes of Elon Musk, made a sinister declaration in a post on Aug. 21. The “Deep State” was setting her up to “commit a crime.” “I have never been more angry in my life,” Jennica Pounds, who...

Judge blocks Trump administration plan to restructure housing grants

A federal judge on Wednesday halted the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul a decades-old grant program targeting housing discrimination, siding with fair housing groups that argued the changes hindered their ability to work. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun, who was appointed by former President Biden, ruled that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...

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