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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...

A panel of three federal judges ruled that the Pentagon’s policy requiring journalists in the building to have government escorts will stand, overturning a lower court judge’s decision. In a Thursday evening order, two of the three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit panel said Department of Defense officials “are...

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Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, accused President Trump of misleading the country in his Thursday evening speech about the state of election security in the U.S. “The president of the United States lied to the American public today,” Himes said on MS NOW following the...

If the U.S. government stays silent while Ulviyya remains locked away, it would send a message far beyond Azerbaijan.

Former first lady Jill Biden accused the media of applying a “double standard” in its coverage of her husband, former President Biden, when compared with President Trump. While promoting her memoir last month, the former first lady was asked during a Q&A session about media coverage during her husband's presidency. She said the former president...

The U.S. military hit bridges and energy sites in Iran in its latest round of strikes against the Middle Eastern country early Friday morning. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responded with attacks on U.S. bases in the Gulf region, including in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan. The IRGC also said it attacked a U.S. special...

Netanyahu must face down his own right-wingers as his predecessor did 35 years ago during the Gulf War.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin will speak with reporters Friday morning on election security and integrity, hours after President Trump's primetime address on the topic. During his speech, Trump made another push for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote and a photo ID when casting...

Populist theatrics, divorced from the prosaic work of consensus-building and problem-solving, degenerate into political escapism.

The Navy’s top civilian official is brushing off criticisms over an unusually low Blue Angels flyover at Florida’s Pensacola Beach this week, saying there will be no punishments for the incident.  Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said the service completed a flight debrief of the Wednesday flyover that sent tents and umbrellas flying during the annual “Breakfast...

President Trump is hoping last night's primetime address on election fraud will boost support for the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to show ID before casting their ballots. But the legislation goes much further, raising concerns among even some Republicans about whether it can pass. Join The Hill’s senior vice president of editorial...