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Trump derides Biden’s dropping out as crooked, a threat to democracy

Former President Donald Trump went on a tirade on Truth Social about President Biden dropping out of the presidential race as fraudulent, dirty politics.

Amid global uncertainty, Kremlin takes aim at Harris’ foreign policy credentials

Some of America's adversaries appeared eager Monday to downplay the foreign policy credentials of Vice President Kamala Harris, now the heavy favorite to be the Democratic Party's 2024 White House nominee after President Biden left the race a day earlier, painting Ms. Harris as a figure with minimal impact on U.S. relationships and policies abroad during her tenure in the White House.

No second gunman, no foreign influence, no staged shooting: Secret Service nixes conspiracy theories

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday there is no evidence of a second shooter in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Timeline slipping for House GOP funding plans

The timeline is slipping for House GOP leadership’s ambitious funding plans as the party navigates internal spending divides and a tight schedule ahead of August recess. Republicans had previously eyed votes on four funding bills this week as part of a larger effort to pass all 12 annual spending bills by the end of next...

Vance: Harris ‘is a million times worse’ than Biden

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) came out swinging against Vice President Harris at a rally in Virginia, where he warned she was a “million times worse” than President Biden. “Now, history will remember Joe Biden as not just a quitter, which he is, but one of the worst presidents of the United States of America. But...

House Republicans call on CrowdStrike CEO to testify about global outage

House Republicans are calling on the CrowdStrike CEO to testify in a congressional hearing about the global tech outage that impacted flights and businesses across the world on Friday. Reps. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) sent a letter to CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on Monday requesting that he appear before the committee for...

DNC plans to have nominee by Aug. 7, use virtual roll call ahead of convention

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Monday that it will move forward with a virtual roll call and that it plans to have a presidential nominee by Aug. 7. The DNC will use an electronic voting system for delegates to vote for candidates for the nomination who meets three criteria — file formal declaration of...

DOJ asks Supreme Court to partially restore Biden Title IX rule in Republican-led states

The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court to take emergency action Monday to restore parts of President Biden’s Title IX rule in a handful of Republican-led states where the new regulations are blocked, arguing that lower court injunctions pausing the rule in its entirety are "more burdensome" than necessary. In April, the Education Department unveiled a final set...

Progressive Rep. Maxwell Frost calls for Secret Service chief to resign

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign Monday, joining a number of Democrats who have similarly expressed frustration following her congressional testimony earlier that day. “The mass shooting at the campaign rally + attempted assassination of the former President was a massive failure of the Secret Service,” Frost wrote...

Cheatle’s ‘terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day’

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Cheatle's 'terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day' Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday faced a barrage of questions about the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, with her few answers infuriating lawmakers. © AP Lawmakers...

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