The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said they are launching an investigation after a small bag of cocaine was discovered inside its headquarters. Police found a “roughly one-inch by one-inch zip lock bag with a small amount of a white powdery substance, which field tested positive for cocaine.” It was found on the floor inside...
The North Carolina state Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public, even for health reasons. Republican supporters of the ban said it would help law enforcement crack down on protesters who wear masks. They say demonstrators are abusing COVID-19 pandemic-era practices to hide their identities following a wave...
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that House Republicans will release their proposed top-line number for government funding for most of 2025 later this week. Cole said Wednesday afternoon that the powerful funding committee is aiming to release the top-line number, as well as the House GOP's proposed allocations...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Putin in China as US slams Beijing for supporting Ukraine war Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing as his forces have mounted a major new assault in Ukraine and amid U.S. criticism of China for supporting...
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a new congressional map that includes a second Black majority House district in Louisiana can be used in November after a lower court rejected that map earlier this month. The high court issued a stay on a federal judge panel’s decision two weeks ago that halted the...
Former President Trump’s Boeing 757 clipped a parked plane while taxiing at a Florida airport Sunday morning. Trump landed in Cincinnati on Wednesday, his day off from his hush money trial, for an intimate, high-dollar fundraiser, but he arrived in Ohio without his jet nicknamed “Trump Force One.” According to an accident and incident notice from the...
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he would have pardoned former President Trump if he had been in President Biden's position when federal indictments were brought against him. In an interview set to air in full Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney said Biden would have looked like the “big guy” compared to...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story HHS suspends funding to group at center of COVID lab leak The Biden administration has suspended federal grants to the infectious disease nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), the group at the center of a controversy over the origins...
A lawyer who formerly advised Michael Cohen alleged the ex-Trump attorney said the former president had nothing to do with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels