The House passed an amendment Thursday barring the State Department from citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s death toll statistics for the Israel-Hamas war, effectively halting discussion of the war’s deaths if it is signed into law. A bipartisan group of lawmakers voted 269-144
The Hill’s election team reviews the most important moments from tonight’s CNN Presidential Debate. The faceoff between former President Trump and President Biden is their first in the 2024 race for the White House, and the first ever between a current and previous occupant of
CNN is rejecting a request from the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) to allow a pool reporter to be in the room for the entirety of Thursday night's debate between President Biden and former President Trump. "WHCA is deeply concerned that CNN has rejected our
ATLANTA — California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is hitting back at former President Trump’s evidence-free innuendo that President Biden might use performance-enhancing drugs for tonight’s debate. “It’s beneath contempt. It’s a disgraceful tactic,” Newsom told reporters at the media
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) clashed with an Australian TV news anchor on Wednesday in an interview that started with a focus on Julian Assange before veering into questions about accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election. In the interview, Greene did not
The Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is seeking a waiver to remain in the top leadership role beyond the GOP-imposed term limit of six years, his office confirmed to The Hill. Rep. Michael McCaul's (R-Texas) pursuit of a waiver signals his desire to stay
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Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Biden, Trump expected to debate policy on Iran, China The Thursday night debate between President Biden and former President Trump will likely
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA cross-state air pollution rule halted The Supreme Court on Thursday halted the EPA's "Good Neighbor Rule," which seeks to regulate cross-state air
Former President Trump and President Biden will face off in person Thursday for the first time in this year's lead-up to their historic rematch election. Trump has generally held a slight lead over in Biden most, but not all, recent national polls. Neither candidate has a lock
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva urged U.S. policymakers Thursday to take advantage of the U.S. recovery from the pandemic and pay off the deficit. Georgieva said policymakers should put the U.S. national deficit on a “decisive downward path,” in
Hours before the first Biden-Trump presidential debate on Thursday, House Republicans tried reviving an old 2020 debate conspiracy theory in hopes of helping out Donald Trump. The theory, elevated by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, is based on a statement published in October
Mary Trump, the niece of former President Trump, will join President Biden’s campaign in the spin room in Atlanta following CNN's presidential debate. A campaign official said that Trump’s niece will join the spin room because “on the subject of character, few people can speak
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Data privacy markup scrapped after GOP backlash A markup was abruptly canceled Thursday after a landmark data privacy bill pitted Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) against House
North Carolina’s election board delayed bids from political groups representing independent presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West from gaining ballot access in a meeting Wednesday. The board, which includes three Democrats and two Republican members,
Almost two-thirds of voters say they’re hearing more from Republicans on immigration, while only 16 percent say they’ve heard more from Democrats, according to a new poll by Vera Action and The Immigration Hub. The poll, conducted by PerryUndem, echoed other polling in which
The conservative House Freedom Caucus voted this week to open a review into Rep. Warren Davidson’s (R-Ohio) standing in the group after he took the unprecedented step of endorsing the primary challenger to the group's chair, Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), a source familiar with the
Republicans are still hung up on diversity, equity, and inclusion principles somehow being a factor in the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment, where toxic chemicals were released into the town of East Palestine, Ohio. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg appeared
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) pressed the co-author of the “Project 2025” handbook over former President Trump’s potential plans to reinstate an executive order that would allow him to easily fire thousands of civil servants. Khanna questioned Jonathan Berry, a co-author of the
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Justices claw back SEC enforcement powers The Supreme Court invalidated the internal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) system used to seek civil fraud
Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) has introduced legislation to protect voters against artificial intelligence-created election misinformation. The Securing Elections from AI Deception Act seeks to ban the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to deprive or defraud individuals of
President Biden and former President Trump will seek to contrast themselves on policy and current events as they face off in their first presidential debate since 2020 on Thursday night in Atlanta. But the CNN debate presents a unique moment, given both men have established
The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday forwarded a resolution to hold President Biden’s ghostwriter in contempt of Congress, its second such effort to censure those connected with the probe into the president’s handling of classified records. The resolution to hold Mark
The Center for Investigative Reporting has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement in a new fight against unauthorized use of news content in building artificial intelligence (AI). The news nonprofit, which produces Mother Jones and Reveal,
Elton John is auctioning off hundreds of items from his iconic personal wardrobe on eBay in his latest push to raise money for his AIDS Foundation. The auction, called the “Rocket Man Resale,” begins on June 27 and will last for 10 days. Fans can bid on items valued at a range
The Supreme Court’s campaign to constrain federal agencies continued apace on Thursday in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy . In a 6–3 ruling that fell along the usual ideological lines, the court held that the SEC’s ability to enforce civil penalties through
Organizers of the annual South by Southwest festival (SXSW) have cut ties with the Army and weapons makers. The decision, announced Wednesday, comes after more than 100 acts dropped out of the music and cultural event in Austin, Texas, earlier this year due to sponsorship deals
Almost 200 people have been charged in a nationwide operation probing false health care claims involving approximately $2.75 billion in losses, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Under its 2024 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action, the DOJ filed
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Thursday all public schools under his jurisdiction should be incorporating the Bible and Ten Commandments into their curriculum. “The Bible is one of the most historically significant books and a cornerstone of Western
Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction is going to try to push Christian nationalism into the state’s schools by requiring every teacher to have a Bible in their classroom and use it for lessons. “The Bible is a necessary historical document to teach our kids about the
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is probing 18 oil and gas companies after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused the former CEO of firm Pioneer Natural Resources of colluding with foreign oil producers last month. Whitehouse, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, asked
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is repeating its warnings for American citizens to avoid traveling to Lebanon over increasing security threats, as the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel on Lebanon’s southern border intensifies. In a security alert posted Thursday, the U.S.
The Supreme Court's ruling Thursday blocking a bankruptcy deal to immunize the family that owns Purdue Pharma throws the case into uncertainty as it heads back to lower courts, with the only immediate outcome of the ruling being that the financial settlement will now take
Advocates pushing for social media regulations to keep kids safe online blasted the House for cancelling a Thursday markup of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) amid opposition to a separate data privacy bill also slated to be considered. A House Energy and Commerce Committee
Only hours before the first debate in the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump posted some of his talking points on social media. Why he did that is as yet unclear. In a post on Truth Social, Trump tweeted a screenshot of a document containing bullet points on climate and
NASA announced Wednesday it has selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build the vehicle that will bring the International Space Station out of orbit by 2030, when it’s expected no longer to be operational. SpaceX won the estimated $843 million contract to “develop and deliver” the
The House on Thursday rejected a flurry of amendments offered to an appropriations bill from Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to cut off aid to Ukraine, a signal of bipartisan support for Ukraine. Gosar and Greene proposed a series of amendments to
With no clear divisions along party lines, what should we make of the end of the Assange saga?
Former President Trump seemingly posted talking points regarding his and President Biden’s respective records on climate change from his former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler on his Truth Social platform Thursday, ahead of his CNN debate with
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said his state will not comply with the Surgeon General’s newly issued public health advisory on gun violence, calling the move “unconstitutional” in a post on the social platform X on Wednesday. “We will not comply,” DeSantis wrote. “Florida will
Announcement from Sarah Katt, Senior Vice President of Programming, The Hill Katt: I would like to officially welcome Kat Trainor to The Hill events team. Kat will join the team as our Vice President of Events. In this newly created role, Kat will lead our live events team,
A recent survey from the Consumer Finance Institute (CFI) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found more consumers saying they are concerned about making ends meet. In the April survey, 36.8 percent of consumers said they were worried about making ends meet over the
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer may have attacked President Joe Biden for utilizing email aliases, but he’s no stranger to the practice himself. Earlier this month, it was reported that Comer had used two pseudonymous email addresses instead of his government one
