Republican presidential candidates will debate Wednesday within walking distance of where George Wallace staged his "stand in the schoolhouse door" to oppose the enrollment of Black students at the University of Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement.
Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday criticized the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over its decision to make Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, CEO of the UAE’s national oil and gas company, the host of the COP28 climate summit. "They are abusing the public's trust by naming the CEO of one of the largest and least responsible...
On Halloween night, a few dozen Georgetown law students gathered stealthily to listen in rapt silence to a live-streamed defense of Hamas’s Oct. 7 mass slaughter of Jews. The speaker, a fashionably scruffy, dark-haired 25-year-old named Mohammed El-Kurd, wore a tight black T and a leather jacket. He celebrated Hamas as a “liberation movement” and...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), once a top ranking Republican in the House, warned over the weekend that a GOP majority in 2025 “presents a threat” to the United States. “I believe very strongly in those principles and ideals that have defined the Republican Party, but the Republican Party of today has made a choice...
Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Congress’s countdown to the holiday recess is on, but before members can head back to their families, they face a list of legislative to-dos. Leading that list is legislation regarding the U.S.-Mexico border, where...
It was a night celebrating the arts, but just weeks before the beginning of a presidential election year, politics was difficult to avoid at the 46th Kennedy Center Honors. A who’s who of Washington came together on Sunday in the nation’s capital to recognize this year’s Honorees: rapper and actor Queen Latifah, comedian Billy Crystal,...
Arizona’s Senate race may be the next contest for Democrats where abortion plays a decisive role. As the party looks to hold onto its slim majority in the upper chamber, it is leaning into an abortion rights platform, which helped it score numerous victories over the past year in red and purple states. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), who’s running...
Schools are finding creative ways to stop students from using their cell phones during the day, fueling debates about the effectiveness and wisdom of such bans. Some schools have partnered with companies to implement the use of pouches that students are required to put their phones into at the beginning of the day and that...