The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) on Tuesday announced it is adding five new candidates to its “Red to Blue” slate targeting House seats that it hopes to flip from Republican to Democratic control. The new additions, first shared with The Hill, come after
The broad investments in organizing, communications and research show Democrats’ vision for a big map as they seek to take back the Senate.
President Trump flew out of Michigan on Monday inside the Air Force One 757, which now features a new painted color scheme. The plane is now dark blue with a gold stripe and red trim, according to a pool report from Ana Ceballos, a Washington Correspondent for the Los Angeles
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) and former Wayne County health director Abdul El-Sayed squared off in their second one-on-one debate to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) — just one week out from the Aug. 4 Democratic Senate primary. The duo clashed once again over
“Show me how this ends,” Majority Leader John Thune pleaded amid new presidential pressure.
A federal judge on Monday halted a prediction market ban in Minnesota days before it was set to roll out. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote that the Trump administration, Kalshi and Polymarket are “likely to succeed on the merits” in the case arguing that the state ban
A group of more than 50 academics on Monday wrote a letter to congressional leaders urging them to restore agency independence following last month’s Supreme Court ruling, which granted President Trump the authority to fire commissioners of independent agencies without cause.
The Texas Republican drew a red line ahead of a crucial Judiciary Committee vote Thursday.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong wrote an op-ed Monday citing the dangers to industry competition, jobs and a concentration of power if Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merge. “We have watched, with growing alarm, what consolidation does to the
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Pentagon mum as US casualties in Iran war rise The Pentagon’s Iran war casualty count topped 600 over the weekend, following a quiet update as the
The Senate on Monday cleared the last major procedural hurdle to Jay Clayton’s confirmation vote as director of national intelligence.
The Senate cleared a final procedural hurdle Monday night on President Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), teeing up Jay Clayton for a final vote this week. The 51-43 vote to advance the nomination means the Senate could confirm
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA exempts data center plants from acid rain rules The Trump administration announced Monday that it is excluding power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Health Care The Big Story Paul releases Fauci's diary entries ahead of hearing Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci will appear before the Senate this week for a hearing. Leading up to his appearance,
Escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada could play into Democratic messaging around the economy, particularly in the battleground state of Michigan, which has some of the highest cross-border trade of any state. President Trump slapped an additional 50 percent
A poll released Sunday shows that 40 percent of U.S. adults are buying or eating less produce after the cyclospora outbreak. Comparatively, according to survey results from CBS/YouGov, 4 percent of people said they are eating more produce. Among respondents, 56 percent said
A federal panel on Friday voted to advance a revamp of the nation’s historic preservation rules that Trump administration officials say slow down projects. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, which is made up primarily of Trump appointees, voted to propose to rewrite
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Nvidia launches new open-source AI security alliance Nvidia is launching a new alliance focused on building and sharing open-source AI tools to boost cybersecurity defenses, as the push for open-source technologies ramps up in the
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Monday called on Taylor Farms to provide information about its connections with the White House amid a parasitic outbreak potentially linked to the company's lettuce
Saudi Arabia is sending no signals it will accept President Trump’s after-the-fact condition that Riyadh establish ties with Israel as part of a nuclear energy deal with the United States. In fact, its leaders haven’t even conceded that the deal signed last week is off.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune just dumped cold water all over President Donald Trump’s latest demands to pass his SAVE America Act. “If somebody can show me how we get an outcome, how we get a result, how we get an answer to this, I’m all for it,” Thune told reporters
A new analysis released Monday says that GOP-led mid-decade redistricting efforts have resulted in a map that resembles 2018's, when Democrats won the majority in the House. “There’s no question that 2025-2026 mid-cycle redistricting made the overall U.S. House map more
President Trump’s speech at a rally in Michigan Monday afternoon was interrupted by a persistent heckler. Someone kept yelling “pedophile protector” while Trump was extolling the benefits of his tariffs on foreign automakers. Others in the crowd eventually tried to drown him
President Trump sounded the alarm over communism during a campaign-style stop in Michigan on Monday ahead of the state’s Democratic Senate primary next week. Trump did not name Senate candidates Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) and Abdul El-Sayed during his rally in Milford,
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday reacted coolly to President Trump’s demand for the chamber to cancel its five-week August recess to debate the SAVE America Act, telling reporters he’s willing to do so if there’s a chance of a successful outcome but warning
Transgender advocate and influencer Dylan Mulvaney on Sunday clapped back at President Trump's mock comparison of her to CNN chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. "Now, the president also brought up a video I
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday to lift a judge’s block on President Trump’s executive order that seeks to restrict mail-in voting, calling the halt premature. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the courts have no power to intervene yet because the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is launching operations in New York City, according to The Hill’s sister network, NewsNation. NewsNation’s Ali Bradley reported Monday that sources in ICE had told her New York City-based enforcement operations began Monday morning in
Donald Trump’s administration only has one person working in its office of pandemic preparedness, and—you guessed it—she’s a vaccine skeptic. The Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy had been empty since last summer, after all the Biden-era employees left and its
The Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain. The administration announced new guidance on Monday clarifying that these
Former President Obama is set to headline a redistricting fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) at the end of the month as the party looks to strike back on Republican efforts to redraw maps nationwide. The event is on Aug. 31 and will include a
The House Ethics Committee is investigating Texas Republican Representative Lance Gooden. The scope of the probe is unclear at this time. The committee said it received a referral from the Office of Congressional Conduct last month. “The Committee notes that the mere fact of a
The Senate GOP is offering new guidance to party lawmakers on how to rhetorically juggle Donald Trump’s second term agenda with the public furor it has caused. Internal party messaging reviewed Monday by Politico indicates that Republican leadership is still trying to salvage
President Trump in a primetime address earlier this month again raised the specter of large volumes of migrants voting in U.S. elections, warning there could be more than 250,000 noncitizens among four state’s voter rolls. But the Trump administration has not explained how it
The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas), though it did not disclose the nature of the probe. The panel said in a statement that it had received a referral from the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) on the matter
A campaign finance watchdog previously targeted Rep. Lance Gooden's reporting of stock trades, but it's unclear what investigators are probing.
All 100 senators have been invited to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. in the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources confirmed to The Hill. The meeting was originally reported by Punchbowl News. The gathering comes as the Senate considers
Border czar Tom Homan on Sunday said the immigration officer accused of fatally shooting a man in Maine should not have cleared the vetting process if allegations of a violent past are true. Family members said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer David
The White House wants to get rid of a radiation safety rule that is over 50 years old and has been adopted by other countries. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is looking at eliminating the “as low as reasonably achievable” principle, which mandates that hospitals, nuclear
A federal judge rejected claims that President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission improperly left out certain faiths, dismissing a challenge Monday that sought to declare it illegal. An interfaith coalition argued the commission excluded non-Judeo Christian religions in
Reps. Steven Horsford and others broke with House leadership to support Donavan McKinney’s bid.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Sunday the U.S. will not be "exporting enrichment capacity to" Saudi Arabia under the new nuclear deal announced last week. Waltz appeared on the Sunday morning shows to clarify aspects of the deal, which would eventually
Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Chris Van Hollen (Md.) are holding a forum on Monday afternoon examining President Trump's cryptocurrency investments. It comes after Trump's financial disclosure report for last year revealed he brought in more than $2 billion
Americans’ economic pessimism has eased slightly this month, according to a new poll from Gallup. In the poll, 22 percent of respondents said the U.S.’s economic conditions are “excellent” or “good,” while 32 percent said they were “only fair” and 44 percent said they were
President Trump still won’t say where exactly the $13 billion of Venezuelan oil revenue that his administration collected has gone. “There’s some reports that the United States has taken in $13 billion from Venezuela,” a reporter asked Trump at the Air Force One press gaggle on
Funding for the global HIV response plunged in 2025, entirely due to a steep decline in U.S. support, according to reports from KFF and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Taken together, the reports, released at the International AIDS Conference, show
Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC "dysfunctional." Carville, who explained he was recovering from hernia surgery, said in a
Fetterman previously campaigned against the 60-vote Senate rule. Now, he says it’s a vital safeguard for the government’s minority.
