For all the hype about President Joe Biden‘s supposed election year comeback, the president’s rebound is not really reflected in the polls. FiveThirtyEight’s expert aggregation shows the Democrat‘s net approval rating rising from a nadir of a negative 18.2 a month ago to a negative 15.9 as of Thursday. While former President Donald Trump‘s general […]
The bipartisan group No Labels won’t put forward a third-party presidential ticket after failing to find a candidate, multiple outlets have reported. No Labels will reportedly announce on Monday that it hasn’t been able to recruit the right White House contender and won’t be moving forward with its 2024 “unity” bid, according to a report from The...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Trump legal issues draw frustration from all sides Former President Trump's legal battles — from alleged hush money payments to federal election interference — are starting to come to a head, and updates spanning two cases he faces show he's...
On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King III was sitting at home in Atlanta with his siblings, watching the news, when a news bulletin flashed across their TV screen: Their father, Martin Luther King, Jr., had just been assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. It was this memory King shared as he...
Former Trump attorney John Eastman downplayed a California judge calling for his disbarment last week, arguing that he’s still likely to succeed on appeal and revealing that he has been subpoenaed in a separate suit related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The judge recommended that Eastman, who was at the center of efforts...
A group of House Democrats is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to include humanitarian assistance in a foreign aid package that is expected to address funding for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo Pacific. In a letter to Johnson sent Tuesday and obtained by The Hill, the Democrats ask Johnson to include $9.16 billion in...
President Biden on Thursday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward a cease-fire deal that would release the remaining hostages in Gaza while suggesting that U.S. policy on the war will depend on Israel’s ability to better protect civilians and humanitarian workers after a deadly attack that killed a contingent of international aid workers this...
A federal judge in Philadelphia rejected a nonprofit’s attempt to open a safe drug-injection site in the city. Safehouse, the organization that seeks to provide overdose prevention services, said the threat of prosecution by the Department of Justice over potentially violating drug laws is hindering its religious rights as a group. The organization said its...