Millions of Americans in the Central U.S. could see severe thunderstorms and tornadoes Monday night through Wednesday. Severe thunderstorms are expected to touch down across the Central Great Plains and parts of Virginia and Maryland starting Monday night and continuing
The Republican-led House on Monday voted in favor of a series of bills aimed at squeezing Iran financially in response to an unprecedented drone and missile attack launched by the Islamic Republic against Israel over the weekend. Three separate bills were brought to the floor
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense & National Security Defense & National Security The Big Story Iran’s attack on Israel built on lessons from Russia Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel showed that the Islamic Republic has learned key
Maine will become the latest state to join an interstate effort to elect the nation’s president by a popular vote, Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Monday. Mills said she will allow the legislation to become law without her signature, paving the way for Maine to join the
The House on Monday settled its procedural business on a bill to reform the nation's warrantless surveillance powers, kicking the controversial reauthorization over to the Senate. The Monday vote came after a tie in the chamber on an amendment that would have added a warrant
The first criminal trial of an American president got underway in downtown Manhattan on Monday. Former President Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records. The underlying events revolve around a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Congress turns its eye to health care cybersecurity Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are ramping up probes into health care cybersecurity following the Change Healthcare ransomware
NEW YORK — Former President Trump became the first former commander in chief to stand trial on criminal charges Monday, but it got off to a sluggish start with even Trump himself appearing to nod off at times. For hours, the parties battled over a series of pending legal
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has unveiled an outline of his plan to move foreign aid through the House, pitching four separate bills to address aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and other national security priorities that he says will all get votes before the end of the week.
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Biden admin gives billions to Samsung for Texas chip plant The Biden administration announced Monday a multibillion-dollar agreement with Samsung, which will invest in semiconductor chip
Donald Trump had a strange claim at the end of the first day of his hush-money trial: He said that the judge had barred him from attending his son’s high school graduation next month. “It looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation of my son who’s worked very,
The Supreme Court granted a request by Idaho’s attorney general on Monday to lift a lower court’s temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing its felony ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The justices granted Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s (R)
Democratic Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.) raised more than $8 million in the first quarter of the year, his campaign announced Monday, as the incumbent fights to hold on to his upper chamber seat in the red-leaning state. The figure sets a record for the best first-quarter
Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel showed that the Islamic Republic has learned key lessons from Russia’s war in Ukraine, employing a strategy to overwhelm air defenses with a layered assault including swarms of drones and missiles traveling faster than the speed of
Rudy Giuliani lost his bid on Monday to dismiss the $148 million verdict handed to him last year in a defamation lawsuit brought by two former Georgia election workers. Giuliani filed for bankruptcy days after a Washington, D.C., jury ordered him to pay $148 million to Ruby
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments on presidential immunity at the Supreme Court next week. It came after the judge earlier delayed a decision on allowing Trump to attend his son Barron's high
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden made a combined income of $619,976 last year, and Vice President Harris and her husband made $450,299, according to the couples’ 2023 tax returns the White House released Monday. The president and his wife paid an effective federal
Donald Trump’s MAGA disciples were left fuming after the first day of his hush money criminal trial… but all their heat boiled down to one detail: that the GOP presidential nominee was being held to the same legal standards as every other private citizen. The weeks-long
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Have you filed your taxes? Tax day is upon us, and most Americans have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to file their 2023 returns before they incur a late fee. © AP
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, said a hearing on the Change Healthcare cyberattack that disrupted health care system payments across the country will be coming soon. Speaking at the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Annual Membership
Gasoline prices are expected to rise over the next few days — but not necessarily because of turmoil in the Middle East. Over the next day or so, states in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic are expected to switch to more expensive gasoline blends for the summer, leading to higher
Former Representative George Santos has raised $0 in his campaign to return to the House, and he says it’s for a good reason : to stop people from thinking he’s a grifter. The New York Republican has a well-established reputation as a serial fabulist whose lies got him expelled
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) predicted former President Trump would "play 'Apprentice'" to decide on his vice-presidential pick and advised that he look to Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) as his best choices. McCarthy on
Kelly Clarkson says she finds Arizona's recent abortion ruling "insane," telling Hillary Clinton the country's "going backwards." "Did you ever think in your lifetime that we would see that happen? It's just insane to me the thinking that went on in 1864 — it's a very different
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) poured cold water on the prospect of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) being ousted from his role, stating he does not think it "will ever happen." "It makes a lot of good news, doesn't it? But this is what I think ... I don't think
A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report © Getty Images Unprecedented: Trump hush money trial kicks off Jury selection is underway in former President Trump's criminal hush money trial. Hundreds of people from Manhattan have
Incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) raised more from donors than Republican Eric Hovde in the first quarter of Wisconsin's closely watched Senate race, but the GOP challenger gave his campaign a boost with an $8 million loan in his bid to flip the seat. Baldwin’s principal
Democratic strategists are roasting former President Trump on Monday for appearing to fall asleep in a New York courtroom during the first day of his hush money trial. Trump at times during the day closed his eyes, appearing to nod off. He also would lean back in his chair
The Biden administration on Monday finalized a new rule it says will reduce taxpayer responsibility for the process of decommissioning offshore oil and gas platforms. The decommissioning process is the final step in offshore fossil fuel extraction and involves dismantling the
Lara Trump, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said the hush money case brought against her father-in-law is “insane” as jury selection for the trial begins Monday. Former President Trump is back in a New York courtroom for the first day of the hush money
Diplomacy, not military preemption, is the best path.
Coral reefs around the globe experienced a mass bleaching event in the past year as the ocean continues to heat, according to new research. Mass bleaching has been reported in coral reefs in at least 53 countries and territories in the Northern and Southern hemispheres since
The massive Iranian attack on Israel over the weekend thrust the decades-long shadow war between the two countries out into the open, highlighting a spiraling conflict that threatens to grow even more dangerous in the future. Iran’s brazen attack, which included some 300
The policies of the Trump administration played an important role in this decline of U.S. manufacturing capacity and employment.
An advocacy group for transgender veterans filed a second lawsuit against the U.S. government Monday for excluding gender-affirming surgery from former service members’ health benefits. In a federal complaint filed Monday, the Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA)
A handful of vice presidential hopefuls rushed to former President Trump’s defense Monday as Trump attended the opening day of his hush money trial in New York City. Several lawmakers who Trump has said are on his shortlist or are believed to be in contention as a possible
Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake’s campaign significantly stepped up her fundraising during the first quarter of 2024, but she trailed her likely Democratic opponent by a notable amount. Lake’s campaign said in a release on Monday that her campaign and joint
Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla announced Monday that it will be laying off more than 10 percent of its global workforce—at least 14,000 employees—following a catastrophic first quarter , in which the company missed delivery estimates and suffered a year-over-year reduction
A new campaign committee for former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) raised nothing last month for the ousted lawmaker-turned-independent candidate, according to a new filing. Despite his surprise announcement last month that he would run again, a filing with the Federal Election
SAG-AFTRA, a union representing thousands of actors and other media professionals, reached a tentative deal with leading record labels that includes protections for artists from the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the union announced Friday. The agreement with
The White House said Monday it would not support a stand-alone bill only providing aid to Israel in the wake of Iran's recent attack, urging the House to pass a national security supplemental that included assistance for Ukraine, Israel and other allies. “We are opposed to a