The Republican Party has, for the most part, done a good job recruiting candidates for Senate races in 2024. But one clear dud is promising to stink up the Senate race in Arizona, and her name is Kari Lake.

If you want to know just how terrible our politics are, there are plenty of examples of toxic, obnoxious politicians to examine. None may be as awful as Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA).

A lot is being made of President Joe Biden mistakenly praising the Congressional Black Caucus at an event honoring the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. And Biden’s declining mental abilities are worrisome.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is under pressure to resign from office after he was indicted on bribery charges Friday. Prosecutors allege that Menendez and his wife accepted “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in bribes to assist three New Jersey businessmen and interests in Egypt. The FBI found nearly $500,000 in cash and over $100,000 in...

{beacon} Evening Report Friday, September 22   © AP Photo/Paul Sancya UAW expands strike, invites Biden to picket line The United Auto Workers expanded its strike from a few locations to 38 on Friday as the union remains at an impasse with two of the Big Three automakers — General Motors and Stellantis. President Biden...

Migrant encounters at the southwest border rose nearly 27 percent from July to August, driven mostly by apprehensions made by the Border Patrol away from ports of entry. U.S. officials last month encountered 232,972 people entering the United States without authorization through the southwest border, up from 183,494 in July, according to numbers released by...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Microsoft-Activision deal gets green light from UK Microsoft's restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game developer Activision Blizzard is inching closer to approval by British competition regulators. © AP Photo The preliminary approval from the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority helps...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) has added to calls from Democrats for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to resign after the senator and his wife were indicted on federal bribery charges Friday. "The allegations in the indictment against Senator Menendez and four other defendants are deeply disturbing. These are serious charges that implicate national security...

Two Virginia Beach parents are suing their local school district over its refusal to adopt Republican Gov. Glen Youngkin’s new model policies for the treatment of transgender students. A lawsuit filed this week alleges the Virginia Beach School Board, which narrowly voted down a proposal to adopt the Youngkin administration’s policies at a meeting last...

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide, said she had to flee Washington, D.C. for safety after she testified before the Jan. 6 Committee.  “I could not go back to my apartment,” Hutchinson told reporter Tracy Smith in an interview set to air Sunday on “CBS New Sunday Morning.” Hutchinson, the former assistant to...