Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) has opened up her largest lead yet in independent public polling of the Democratic primary for the New Jersey gubernatorial race. A new Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey showed Sherrill in the lead with 28 percent support, a significant jump from the previous Emerson poll conducted in January that had her...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and a group of Senate Democrats on Thursday moved to block $3.5 billion worth of arms sales to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates as President Trump nears the end of his weeklong trip in the Middle East. Murphy filed a pair of joint resolutions Friday afternoon: one aimed at blocking...
Republican leaders intend to accelerate new work requirements under Medicaid as they scramble to secure the support of GOP holdouts for President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Thursday that GOP leaders “absolutely” intend to speed up the implementation to ease the concerns of the Republicans threatening to sink the...
The Supreme Court mulled whether judges should be allowed to extend injunctive relief to the entire country in a lively argument Thursday stemming from President Trump’s efforts to narrow birthright citizenship. The practice of issuing nationwide — or “universal” — injunctions drew both criticism and staunch defense from the justices, as the argument bled into...
Air traffic controllers' radio at Denver International Airport experienced an outage for a minute-and-a-half this week, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The federal agency said a part of the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center suffered a loss of communications for about 90 seconds at around 1:50 p.m. local time Monday because “both...
Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman warned Chinese and Russian technologies, especially Beijing's '"kill web," present the greatest risks to the U.S.'s space defense capabilities. “The PRC [People's Republic of China] has developed what we’ve kind of, you know, tongue in cheek, called a ‘kill web,’ and it’s nothing more than a series...
Republicans are working through a litany of disagreements ahead of a House Budget Committee meeting to advance President Donald Trump's reconciliation bill.