Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who says she had sex with former President Trump in 2006, was the central figure once again Thursday at his New York trial. Daniels came under harsh cross-examination before completing her testimony, which had begun Tuesday. In total, she
Presented by AstraZeneca — It's the second year in a row where application numbers dropped {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Medical residents avoiding states with strict abortion laws For the second year in a row, data from the AAMC show students graduating
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) called for Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to be "immediately removed" from their powerful spots on the Rules Committee after they voted with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday to advance her effort to oust Speaker Mike
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump asks Big Oil to raise $1B for campaign Former President Trump asked oil industry executives to raise $1 billion to support his campaign during a
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) is prepping articles of impeachment against President Biden after he warned that the U.S. will stop supplying offensive weapons to Israel if its forces launch an invasion into Rafah. Mills, a first-year lawmaker, unveiled his impeachment resolution
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story TikTok ramps up labeling of AI content TikTok will ramp up how it handles artificial intelligence (AI) generated content by adding labels to content uploaded from other platforms, the
An anonymous Border Patrol agent claimed in a NewsNation interview that cartels, not U.S. officials, control the border. In an interview with NewsNation’s Ali Bradley that will air Thursday night at 9 p.m. on a special edition of "Dan Abrams Live," the agent painted a stark
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story White House pushes Israel over Rafah Biden administration officials are doubling down on warding Israel against a major Rafah operation after the
A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report © AP Stormy Daniels' tawdry Trump trial testimony wraps up Adult film actress Stormy Daniels wrapped up Thursday more than six hours of testimony over an alleged dalliance she had with
China, Russia and Iran are among the foreign adversaries ramping up their efforts to influence the 2024 election with campaigns being aided by artificial intelligence, the FBI warned Thursday. “Election threats are more diverse and expansive than ever,” a senior FBI official
Reps. John Joyce (R-Pa.) and Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.) on Thursday discussed why they're pushing to pass their bill that would alter provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with the congressmen saying the legislation is needed to ensure continued research into treatments
The national “Uncommitted” campaign said that President Biden’s halt of some U.S. weapons to Israel is a “step forward.” The coalition, which grew out of the campaign in Michigan to push Biden toward a cease-fire in Gaza, said the president’s announcement presents progress.
How should NATO respond to AI-generated media? There is one approach that NATO should consider more broadly: a “network approach,” a term coined by Tyler McBrian in a paper for the Innovations for Successful Societies program at Princeton University.
While his criminal fraud trial is not in session on May 17, former President Donald Trump plans to attend the high school graduation of his son Barron in Florida as well as a campaign event in Minnesota. A post on Threads misleadingly claims he will "miss his son's graduation
Ascension Health announced Thursday it had been hit with a cyberattack, just months after data was stolen from a third of the country in a separate breach. In a statement Thursday, Ascension said it detected unusual activity on “select technology network systems” on Wednesday,
More than 25,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the recent deaths of two Boeing whistleblowers as the company remains under intense scrutiny. The petition, organized by the progressive advocacy group MoveOn, urges the
The most recent dominant variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are part of a group sometimes called “FLiRT” variants and serve as a reminder that the virus isn’t going away and some people continue to suffer. While most of the country and the federal
The Justice Department on Thursday sued Iowa over a recent law that forbids people from being in the state if they were previously denied entry into the United States. Iowa's Senate File 2340 makes it a crime for a person to be in Iowa if they were previously removed from the
The Biden administration officially unveiled its latest executive action on border security and immigration on Thursday, emphasizing the asylum rule’s focus on "national security and public safety." The proposed rule, which was widely reported a day ahead of its unveiling,
Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will testify before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic later this month, with committee Chair Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) planning to ask about "discrepancies" between prior
Dozens of planes will fly over the National Mall to celebrate general aviation Saturday. “Heads up! Be aware that Saturday, 5/11, around noon, 60 planes representing the history of general aviation will fly down the Potomac and over the National Mall,” the National Park Service
Former President Trump’s hush money judge rejected the former president’s request to narrow his gag order so he can speak publicly about porn actor Stormy Daniels now that she has completed her testimony in Trump’s ongoing criminal trial. Trump’s gag order limits his attacks
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) on Thursday became the first Senate Democrat to co-sponsor the Laken Riley Act, which is named after the 22-year-old nursing student who was killed on the University of Georgia’s campus by a Venezuelan migrant. Tester’s co-sponsorship of the measure is
Columbia University alumni are firing back at the university over its crackdown on student protests demanding the school divest from Israel-aligned companies and weapons manufacturers. As of Thursday afternoon, more than 1,600 alumni from the university’s 20 schools have signed
Former President Trump asked oil industry executives for $1 billion in campaign cash, according to someone with knowledge of the meeting. Trump met with oil executives at Mar-A-Lago last month. His request for $1 billion for his campaign was previously reported by The
If we are to truly live up to our values of compassion and respect for life, we must expand our sphere of concern to encompass all creatures capable of suffering.
Republican Sen. Tim Scott has claimed that African Americans, Hispanics and Asians all had their lowest unemployment rate under former President Donald Trump. But the lowest unemployment rate on record for African Americans was under President Joe Biden, and the lowest
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Trump's Stormy week Adult film actor Stormy Daniels’s testimony in former President Trump’s hush money trial wrapped Thursday after detailing her alleged 2006 sexual encounter
TikTok will start labeling artificial intelligence-generated content uploaded from other platforms as part of a push to tackle misinformation, the company said Thursday. TikTok is partnering with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a project that
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, confronted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the migrant crisis at the southern border during a sharp exchange on Capitol Hill. Tester, who is one of the Senate’s most vulnerable
President Biden, Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will welcome the 2023 WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces to the White House in recognition of their second title in as many years. According to The Associated Press, the team stands a strong chance of going three
A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate aims to ban the sale of water beads marketed as children’s toys after reports of the product’s hazards raise alarms. The bill is named “Esther’s Law” after 10-month-old Esther Jo Bethard died after swallowing one bead, which is
An appeals court refused to toss Hunter Biden’s federal gun charges, paving the way for the president's son's criminal case to proceed to trial in June. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the younger Biden’s appeal Thursday, saying it lacked
For the second year in a row, fewer medical students are applying to residency programs in states with near-total abortion bans, according to a new data snapshot from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) released Thursday. Students in their senior year in a
One of the biggest issues Congress faces is something you may have never heard of.
Say goodbye to El Niño. National forecasters announced Thursday that El Niño is expected to end in the next month.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Grenee’s spectacularly failed effort to strip Speaker Mike Johnson of the gavel has earned her a whole slew of new enemies. The motion to vacate fell apart Wednesday after an overwhelming majority of the House voted 359–43 to keep Johnson in
South Carolina lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors, sending the measure to Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, who is expected to sign it into law. South Carolina’s House Bill 4624 prohibits health care providers from
Three times more guns are being stolen from cars than a decade ago, according to a new report from gun violence prevention advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. The report, released Thursday, found that the rate of such theft tripled in the last decade in cities that report
A G4 geomagnetic storm watch has been issued - that's a level forecasters describe as "very rare."
A researcher at Arizona State University has been placed on leave as the university investigates a heated confrontation caught on video of him cursing out a woman wearing a hijab. Viral video from the rally shows Jonathan Yudelman, the postdoctoral scholar, approaching a woman
Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) was charged for allegedly lying to the FBI about an illegal campaign contribution, months after an appeals court wiped out his previous conviction. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted Fortenberry on Wednesday on two counts in