Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Trump's legal woes mount ahead of 2024 Former President Trump was hit with his fourth indictment late Monday after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged him and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. ...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) accused the trustees of her late husband’s estate of committing financial abuse against her and called for them to be suspended as administrators of the account in a recent legal filing. Feinstein, 90, accused the three trustees — Michael Klein, Marc Scholvinck, and Verett Mims — of the Richard C. Blum...
Federal officials announced on Tuesday that they would be easing up on Colorado River usage cutbacks in 2024, thanks to an unusually wet winter combined with system-wide conservation measures. Water releases from Lake Mead — the Colorado River Basin’s largest reservoir — in 2023 are expected to be the lowest in three decades, according to the Bureau...
President Biden said Tuesday he and first lady Jill Biden would visit Hawaii, though he gave no timeline to do so amid criticism he has faced over his response to wildfires that have devastated the island of Maui. “My wife Jill and I are going to travel to Hawaii as soon as we can. That’s...
There are a lot of proposals in the air for reforming section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the critical intelligence collection authority set to expire at the end of this year. Section 702 allows U.S. intelligence agencies to target foreign terrorists and hostile nations like Communist China by intercepting communications that are passing...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she accidentally ate “magic” mushrooms on a recent trip to China. In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday, Yellen said the person who arranged the dinner she attended at a chain restaurant ordered the dish containing the mushrooms for her. She said she did not know the dish...
Another political leader was slain in Ecuador on Monday just days after a presidential candidate was assassinated in the country’s capital of Quito. Pedro Briones was shot and killed, as was confirmed by Luisa González, the front-runner in Sunday’s special presidential election and member of the Revolución Ciudadana party. Briones was a local leader of...