The president had a brutal week, but is heading into the weekend still atop the Democratic ticket, with his campaign beating back a barrage of private and public pleas for his exit. The president’s week was derailed by a positive COVID-19 test result — grim counterprogramming to the Republican National Convention amid an election where...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Tech outage ripples worldwide A global technology outage affecting Microsoft wreaked havoc on airports, disrupted hospital operations and even had “limited” impacts on the Paris Olympics. © Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer A “defect” in a...

Former GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie argued with “The View” hosts on Friday over who he would vote for in the upcoming election, saying neither former President Trump nor President Biden would earn his support. “I know you’re not voting for Trump. Would you vote for a Democratic ticket?” host Ana Navarro asked the former...

A federal judge on Friday declined to dismiss several criminal charges against George Santos, the ex-Republican House member expelled from Congress last year. Santos faces 23 counts connected to separate accusations he misled and mistreated campaign donors, lied on financial disclosures and inflated campaign finance reports. The former lawmaker, who has pleaded not guilty to...

Employees of a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied migrant children repeatedly subjected minors in its care to sexual abuse and harassment, the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged in a new lawsuit.  From 2015 through at least the end of 2023, multiple employees at Southwest Key Programs, the country’s largest private provider of housing...

As calls for President Biden to leave the 2024 presidential race grow, Democratic lawmakers from two states are taking a larger role in the effort to persuade the president to step away from his campaign: California and Illinois. As of Friday, six congressional Democrats from California and five from Illinois have asked the president to...

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story Trump goes after Biden at RNC Former President Trump closed the Republican National Convention on Thursday night with a lengthy speech in which he reflected on surviving an assassination attempt and veered into attacking Democratic rivals. © Greg Nash/The Hill...

Vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) will hold a rally in Virginia next week, as the Trump campaign targets the commonwealth as a place to expand the electoral map with Democrats engulfed in drama. Vance will speak on Monday night in Radford, the Trump campaign announced. Vance is expected to attack the Biden White...

{beacon} Evening Report   © Getty Biden set to return to trail as Dem opposition grows President Biden said Friday he’ll return to the campaign trail next week after he recovers from COVID-19, even as the floodgates opened on Capitol Hill with panicked Democrats calling on him to step aside. Over the past 24 hours,...

A federal court of appeals dismissed a lawsuit brought last year by an LGBTQ group over a law that restricts drag shows deemed "harmful to minors."