Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s June meeting revealed confidence among central bankers that elevated interest rates were having the desired effect of cooling the economy toward a soft landing and 2-percent annual inflation. “The vast majority of participants assessed that
The White House was adamant Wednesday that President Biden isn’t dropping out of the 2024 race, despite some calls from Democrats for him to step aside. “The president is not dropping out, that’s something the campaign has shared,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told
President Biden is slated to deliver remarks Wednesday at a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House. The event is scheduled to begin at 4:45 p.m. EDT. Watch the video above.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is urging President Biden to push Turkey to abide by international law while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in Washington for the NATO Summit between July 9 and 11, raising alarm over "systematic human rights abuses." Reps. Chris
A measure guaranteeing abortion rights in Arizona could be on the ballot in November after supporters said Wednesday they submitted more than double the number of signatures required for a ballot initiative. Meanwhile in Nebraska, two competing measures could also make it on
Former President Trump expanded his lead over President Biden to 6 points in a new poll of the presidential race from The Wall Street Journal published Wednesday amid the ongoing fallout from their debate last week. Trump garnered 48 percent support in the poll to Biden’s 42
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story With just three weeks until the start of the Paris summer Olympics, the city's quintessential waterway remains un-swimmable due to ongoing pollution issues. © AP
Former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer said that a leaked polling memo “shook Democrats in their boots” in a Wednesday Substack post. The polling memo from Open Labs, leaked to Puck News, showed how President Biden's support was sliding following his panic-inducing debate
Story at a glance (NewsNation) — This summer, you can gaze at the Milky Way without the need for a telescope, but you may have to drive a bit to get a good view. The center of our galaxy is visible in July and August for those in the Northern Hemisphere, with billions of stars...
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Tuesday took a swipe at ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, who dismissed her suggestion last year that President Biden will not finish his White House term. Haley, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination earlier this year,
Ed Martin, one of three men leading the Republican Party platform process next week, has said he refuses to answer questions about jailing women for having an abortion. This isn’t because Martin opposes that kind of punishment, but because he believes it is ceding power to “the
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is challenging former President Trump to release a plan for ending the ongoing war with Russia. “If Trump knows how to finish this war, he should tell us today,” Zelensky said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Wednesday. “If there are
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story New poll raises concerns for Biden A much-anticipated New York Times/Siena College poll showing former President Trump has expanded his lead over President Biden has become the
Former President Trump is leading his Democratic presidential challenger by his largest margin since 2015, according to a highly anticipated postdebate survey. A poll released by The New York Times and Siena College of likely voters found the former president leading Biden by
House Democratic leadership is set to hold a call this afternoon, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill, as anxiety rises over President Biden’s standing as the party’s presumptive nominee. The call — scheduled for 5 p.m. EDT — will include Democratic
General Motors (GM) will pay $146 million in penalties after an investigation found 5.9 million of the company’s vehicles put out excess greenhouse gas emissions, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced Wednesday. The automaker will also retire
Those who take Ozempic or Wegovy may have an increased risk of developing a rare form of blindness, though future research is needed to make a final determination, researchers in a new study said. The study, published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA Ophthalmology,
Defiant on a call with campaign staff and phoning other top Democrats, the president vowed to stay in the race.
Vermont Sen. Peter Welch (D) warned Wednesday that President Biden could take other Democrats down with him if he loses badly in November, and said he doesn’t know anymore if Biden would be a stronger candidate than Vice President Harris. “So if we do really poorly at the
President Biden and Vice President Harris joined a call with their reelection campaign staff on Wednesday, during which the president stressed that he will stay on the top of the ticket amid panic within the party over whether he should step aside. “I’m in this race to the end
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit Wednesday against New York state alleging that the gag orders placed on Donald Trump during his hush-money trial constituted election interference. The lawsuit alleged that Trump’s gag orders and impending sentencing,
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take quick action on a complaint about TikTok referred to the department by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to a letter sent Tuesday. The complaint at issue centers on allegations of
Conservatives may pull all of the stops to stop Democrats if the party tries to replace Joe Biden on the November election ticket, according to a memo from a top right-wing think tank. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project began researching the laws for replacing a
The federal government issued a plan Wednesday that could eliminate 400,000 barred owls, an invasive species, to protect threatened spotted owls in the western U.S. Barred owls, those that will be killed if the plan is finalized, are native to the eastern U.S., but likely
While Democratic donors and lawmakers peel away from President Joe Biden, at least one person desperately wants the incumbent to stay in the race: Donald Trump. “We need to make sure Biden stays on the ballot and there’s no bait and switch,” a 2020 Trump staffer told Vanity
White House chief of staff Jeff Zients told aides Wednesday to hold their heads high and tune out the noise as President Biden seeks to reassure Democrats after his rocky debate performance last week. On an all-staff call, Zients acknowledged the last few days have been
Former President Trump has expanded his lead over President Biden in the aftermath of last week's debate to 6 points, up from 3 just a week prior, according to a much-anticipated New York Times/Siena College poll. The poll showed Trump leading Biden with 49 percent to the
The Biden reelection campaign has launched a new ad hitting former President Trump for his comments about “Black jobs” at the presidential debate. In response to the first 2024 general election debate’s only question regarding Black voters, Trump took a shot at President
Let’s stop telling working-class Americans a false narrative of decline.
Story at a glance (NewsNation) — A new study suggests that what you eat in your 40s may lead to better physical and cognitive health in your 70s. Researchers at Harvard examined 30 years of data on over 106,000 people, including 70,467 women and 36,464 men. All participants
Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) says President Biden isn't doing enough to win back skeptics and get his campaign back on track in the wake of his abysmal debate performance last week. "I'm worried that it's Wednesday, the debate was Thursday, and all we saw was a five minute
Missouri filed a lawsuit against the state of New York on Wednesday seeking to lift the gag order imposed against former President Trump during his hush money trial and delay sentencing for his conviction in that case until after the November election. Trump was convicted of 34
For almost 25 years, there’s been a major effort to address the issue of children’s safety on the Internet, but a major obstacle has continuously impeded this effort: effectively identifying who is an adult and who is a child.
The Missouri Republican Party must replace 54 national convention delegates and alternate delegates, a Republican National Convention (RNC) committee recently ruled, citing "alarming irregularities" in the state's convention process in May. The RNC Committee on Contests, in a
Former Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who is running for Senate, has written a letter calling on his opponent, Angela Alsobrooks (D), to disavow recent tax and fee increases in the state. The letter, first reported by the Washington Examiner, calls on Alsobrooks to
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Wednesday. Happy Fourth of July eve! Where are you watching fireworks tomorrow night? Here’s what’s happening today: President Biden gets more bad news as his campaign looks to reassure nervous Democrats after the debate debacle last week. Later
The Biden administration is reminding hospitals and physicians they are legally required to perform emergency abortions to stabilize the health of a patient, in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that allowed current law to remain in place for now. In a letter sent to
To assert themselves politically once more, Muslims and Arabs are more than prepared to send a message to Democrats — even if it means putting Donald Trump back in the White House.
President Joe Biden’s campaign is desperately trying to assure the American people that he won’t be dropping out of the race, and that includes staffers at the White House. Biden’s campaign circulated an all-staff memo Wednesday morning that included internal polling that shows
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will start a podcast with retired NFL star Marshawn Lynch and his agent, iHeartMedia announced Wednesday. The launch of the show, called “Politickin’,” comes as Newsom is among those floated to replace President Biden on the 2024 ticket should
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has garnered national attention in recent weeks for its right-wing policy proposals that Democrats have now launched efforts against. Project 2025 outlines a series of policies and initiatives conservatives hope to put forward in a new
The Biden administration said it opposes gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors, deviating from past statements that broadly support gender-affirming health care for youth and angering LGBTQ groups that have backed President Biden in the race against former President
Biden told an unnamed key ally that he knows his campaign is on its last leg if he can’t convince the American public that he’s up for the job following his disastrous debate performance last Thursday, according to The New York Times . The details of the story have been largely
