Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who announced his 2024 presidential campaign, said in an interview that he promises not to overturn election results if he loses. During a sitdown interview with NBC News, NBC News anchor and senior national correspondent Tom Llamas asked Scott if he would attempt to overturn election results if it did not go...

California is one step closer to enacting a law that would ban chemicals found in Skittles, Hot Tamales, and a host of other food items that have been linked to a number of health issues.

Kuiper apologized later in the game, and later called the incident an accident.

Former Trump White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney said Monday that invoking the 14th Amendment to avert a federal default would do more harm than good. In an interview with NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Mulvaney said the likely interest rate spike and legal uncertainty to follow a 14th Amendment maneuver would damage the economy. “It doesn't...

Organizers in Florida have canceled several events slated to take place during Pride Month due to new anti-LGBTQ laws signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), calling it an “unsafe” climate. In a Facebook post, organizers based in St. Cloud, Fla., announced the decision to cancel a Pride event scheduled for next month due to...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Ukraine under pressure after Russia's claimed takeover of Bakhmut Russia’s claimed capture of the city of Bakhmut delivered a symbolic victory for Moscow and raises the pressure for Ukraine’s coming counteroffensive to succeed. © AP Kyiv is...

Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Biden administration endorses GOP-led fentanyl bill The White House on Monday put its weight behind a bill introduced by two House Republicans that would increase the penalties for trafficking fentanyl. © AP The Biden administration called on Congress to...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) emerged Monday evening from a roughly hour-long meeting with President Biden on the debt ceiling saying the latest conversation was “productive,” but that the two sides still don’t have an agreement on how to avoid default just days until the deadline. “I felt we had a productive discussion. We don’t have...

As the federal government once again approaches its debt limit, House Republicans are right to be pushing spending cuts to begin addressing the nation’s ballooning debt. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the federal government will spend $663 billion on interest payments this year, an amount projected to climb to $1.4 trillion by 2033. That’s...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is batting down suggestions that Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) efforts to find a compromise debt limit deal with President Biden could endanger his speakership due to conservative frustration. “Literally nobody except the press is talking about removing McCarthy right now,” Gaetz wrote on Twitter. In a statement to the Washington Examiner,...