Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Student loan borrowers cry foul after latest bank bailouts Recent moves by the Biden administration and financial regulators to bail out Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank are hitting a sore spot with some student...

The bill does four things, which each sound good on the surface, but would have a marginal effect on safety or huge costs to rails — or both. 

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Questions abound over downing of US drone Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley on Wednesday said U.S. officials don’t yet know if it was an intentional hit when a Russian fighter jet a day...

Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Becerra to face congressional grilling as he defends budget Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra will head to Capitol Hill over the next two weeks as he defends President Biden's budget request. © The Hill, Greg Nash Sen....

Tensions have grown heated over the past month between Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). First, Warren offended Harris and her team after she was asked in a January interview if President Biden should keep Harris as his vice president. “I really want to defer to what makes Biden comfortable on his team,”...

Senators unsuccessfully pushed the State Department on Wednesday for information about how it would deal with an extradition request from Brazil for its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has been living in Florida as his supporters attempt to reverse his election loss last year. During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S.-Brazil relations, committee...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg acknowledged on Wednesday that there has been an “uptick in serious close calls” at U.S. airports, after reports emerged of another near collision at a Washington, D.C., airport last week. “Initial information suggests that more mistakes than usual are happening across the system, on runways, at gates while planes are pushing...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves vetoed two health insurance bills, arguing that they would boost the cost of health care. The health commissioner would have had the ability to set rates.

The Georgia Supreme Court couldn't decide on the fate of a state appeals judge who was accused of ethical misconduct. The case will be reviewed further by a judicial discipline panel.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is presiding over a case whose ruling could halt sales of abortion-inducing mifepristone nationwide, has known conservative leanings.