Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Haley's eye-popping support raises questions for Trump Indiana’s presidential primaries, expected to be a sleepy affair on Tuesday, instead became the latest groundswell in the
The Federal Reserve must closely monitor the impact of its public statements on market expectations and price levels, adjusting its communication strategy accordingly.
The conservative group FreedomWorks said it is shutting down, citing the splintering effect former President Trump has had on the Republican Party. “We’re dissolved,” the group’s president, Adam Brandon, told Politico in an interview. “It’s effective immediately.” The Hill has
The top House Republicans with oversight of U.S. foreign and military affairs slammed the Biden administration on Wednesday for pausing a shipment to Israel of an estimated 3,000 heavy bombs. Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Armed Services
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) holds a double-digit lead over likely GOP challenger Eric Hovde in a new poll of the battleground state Senate race. The survey, released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, shows Baldwin bringing in 54 percent support among surveyed Wisconsin voters
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story US West braces for wildfire season as ‘Flying Bucket’ burns in Arizona A burgeoning blaze dubbed the "Flying Bucket Fire" is raging south of Phoenix, as much of the U.S.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said he has concerns about Sharia law being “forced upon the American people” during remarks on the House floor Tuesday. “Well, I've got some pretty strong concerns about Sharia law,” Roy said while discussing his broader worries about border security
Top banking regulator Martin Gruenberg is facing pressure to resign after a savage report about the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) licentious working culture confirmed long-standing findings of sexual harassment plaguing the agency. Top Republicans on
AstraZeneca is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine from the market because of low demand, the drugmaker said Wednesday. The shot, which was never authorized in the U.S., was widely used across the world in the early part of the global vaccine drive. AstraZeneca’s shot was cheaper
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday went after the leaders of prominent K-12 school systems in the U.S. over what they say is a lack of enforcement when antisemitic incidents occur in their districts. “The topic of today's hearing is particularly troubling. It's hard to grasp
More than two-thirds of Americans fear pro-Palestinian demonstrations at college campuses will result in violent confrontations, according to a new poll. The survey, released Wednesday by USA Today and Suffolk University, found that nearly 32 percent of Americans said they are
In their lawsuit, TikTok and ByteDance argue that the law's mandate to divest the app's U.S. business within one year or face a complete shutdown is an unconstitutional infringement on free speech and expression
According to a 2012 deposition, Kennedy was told by a doctor a spot on his brain scan "was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died."
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said Tuesday the city’s infamous Rikers Island jail will be “ready” for former President Trump if he is ordered to jail over violating a gag order in his criminal hush money trial. Adams said the city’s Department of Corrections “is prepared
SPOTTED: Lawmakers putting the "checks" in checks and balances, going head-to-head in games of chess at the Capitol. Sens. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) hosted the bipartisan Congressional Chess Tournament on Wednesday. As part of the event at the Russell
President Biden declared Wednesday that the Trump administration's much-touted efforts to bring a Foxconn facility to Wisconsin were nothing more than a "con," contrasting the failed project with a new investment in the state from Microsoft. Biden traveled to Racine, Wis., to
Americans named abortion and civil rights as the top issues over which they would be willing to risk being arrested while protesting, according to a new survey that comes as thousands have been arrested in pro-Palestinian college campus demonstrations. The latest USA
If it were to become law, the executive branch would be handed a tool perfectly designed to stifle free speech, target political opponents and punish disfavored groups.
America’s disgraced mayor seems to have lost practically everything in his bid to aid Donald Trump. A Tuesday filing in United States Bankruptcy Court revealed that Rudy Giuliani has lost more than just cash in his New York City-based federal bankruptcy case, but also the hired
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday that he is still “very interested” in buying TikTok and suggested its technology could be rebuilt even if the Chinese government bars the app’s China-based parent company ByteDance from selling the algorithm. “I’ve actually
Days before the Sunday ceremony, OSU's chosen speaker Chris Pan said on LinkedIn that he had taken the psychedelic drug ayahuasca to write his first drafts.
The NAACP on Tuesday led a group of civil rights organizations in calling for President Biden to pardon Marilyn Mosby, a former state's attorney for Baltimore. Mosby was convicted in February on a federal charge of making a false mortgage application in order to secure a lower
Former President Trump's super PAC has joined TikTok, the app that Trump's administration previously attempted to ban, as it seeks to spread its message across various platforms. "MAGA INC will not cede any platform to Joe Biden and the Democrats who are trying to destroy our
A U.S. soldier arrested in Russia last week will be detained into July as the Pentagon investigates the circumstances of his travel, a Russian court announced Tuesday. Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black's detainment was extended until July 2 after he was arrested on May 2 in
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) warned that if people choose not to vote in November, they will have to own the “tragedy” of former President Trump getting reelected. In a new interview with USA Today, the first-term senator said he isn’t worried about progressives who threaten to
President Biden is speaking Wednesday at an event in Wisconsin to highlight a new, multibillion-dollar Microsoft AI facility. The project is expected to employ thousands of workers in construction and operation. The site in Racine County, south of Milwaukee, allows the Biden
After complaining about being forced to attend his hush-money trial, Donald Trump is spending his day off with people who spent thousands of dollars on his NFTs. Axios reports that, after his trial wrapped up for the day on Tuesday, Trump flew back to Palm Beach, Florida, to
This persistent belief that there was never a diplomatic path to peace in Ukraine is not just inconsistent with the facts, but functions as a self-imposed constraint forcing Western governments to double down on unsustainable and counterproductive war aims.
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Wednesday. Thoughts and prayers to anyone wearing a full suit in Washington, D.C., today because it is HOT. Here’s a preview for today: Adult film star Stormy Daniels’s testimony got raunchy yesterday. So much that former President Trump’s lawyers
More than a dozen House Democrats are pressing President Biden to tap his executive powers to secure the border, arguing that Congress’s partisan stalemate on the issue leaves him no choice but to act unilaterally. In a letter delivered to the president on Tuesday, 15
A Cleveland man is being hailed a hero after rescuing an 11-month-old baby who was trapped inside a burning house Monday morning.
Former President Trump leads President Biden by 4 points in a Pennsylvania survey of the November election released Tuesday. The former president received 49 percent of support in the poll compared to Biden’s 45 percent. Trump’s lead grows to double digits when voters older
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) described the humanitarian situation as “heartbreaking,” while arguing only Hamas is able to end the war with Israel. Fetterman, a steadfast supporter of Israel, told USA Today in an interview published Wednesday that the situation in Gaza is “worse
The Republican primary race for West Virginia governor has tightened, according to a new poll, with the top two contenders within the poll’s margin of error. The Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey released Wednesday showed state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey leading
prompted numerous studies and reports discussing how exposure to plastics may negatively influence human health. Most recently, the impact of plastics on cardiovascular disease has been in the public eye, after a study reported that small plastic particles can travel through
Mental health and stress are among the top reasons college students consider dropping out of school, according to a recent Gallup poll. Among students who said they considered leaving their program within the last six months, 54 percent cited emotional stress and 43 percent
Donald Trump just got some good news on another legal front. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review the decision to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the RICO prosecution against Trump in his Georgia election interference case. That criminal trial
What’s happening on our college campuses are not mere political protests, but the inevitable outcome when the ancient sociopath's disease of antisemitism is allowed to fester unchallenged.
American support is dropping for NATO and for backing Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia, according to a survey published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. The Pew survey puts hard numbers behind divides playing out on Capitol Hill over support for Ukraine and
An activist with the anti-war group CodePink said she had her cellphone knocked from her hand by a Republican congressman Tuesday when she questioned him about the Israel-Hamas war. Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) was walking in a hallway before a House committee when two people
This important public service is now threatened by a new technology — online streaming
A new study estimates than more than 321,000 children lost a parent to drug overdose between 2011 and 2021 with the rate of deaths more than doubling in that time frame. The study published in the JAMA Psychiatry medical journal found that an estimated 321,566 children lost a
Former President Trump complained Wednesday about the gag order limiting him from attacking witnesses, jurors and court staff in his New York hush money case, calling it unfair that others could speak out while he could not. "It is a really bad feeling to have your