President Biden on Thursday took a dig at former President Trump over his financial issues after Trump's lawyer said he can’t pay his $464 million bond. “I know not everyone’s feeling enthusiasm. The other day a defeated man…came up to me and said, Mr. President I’m being crushed by debt, I’m completely wiped out,” Biden...
Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.), a Democrat facing a tough reelection race, scored a win Thursday when the Senate approved a challenge he led to override the Biden administration’s decision to allow beef imports from Paraguay. The Senate voted 70-25 Thursday to invalidate the action, but the resolution of disapproval still needs to be approved by...
Attorney General Merrick Garland said it would have been “absurd” for him to forcefully exclude Robert Hur's controversial comments on President Biden’s memory in his special counsel report released last month. Hur’s report into Biden last month described the president as a “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." The White House immediately pushed back on what...
A U.S. ship departed Virginia on Thursday carrying heavy equipment and materials for troops to construct a pier off the coast of Gaza, part of a bid to get more humanitarian aid into the besieged coastal strip. The Bob Hope-class merchant vessel Roy P. Benavidez left Newport News, Va., with materials for the floating pier,...
New Hampshire House lawmakers voted Thursday to bar transgender women and girls from participating on female school sports teams, positioning the state to be the first in the Northeast to adopt such a measure. New Hampshire’s Republican-controlled House approved House Bill 1205 Thursday in a largely party-line 189-182 vote. The bill, titled the Fairness in Women's Sports...
Former White House aide Steve Bannon issued a stark warning for Republican lawmakers to vote against the latest government funding deal as Congress races to pass the legislation ahead of Friday’s partial shutdown deadline. "And I got to tell you, this deficit in this budget is outrageous. It’s going to be over $2 trillion —...
Multiple states across the country reported that services were disrupted at their department of motor vehicles (DMV) offices Thursday. According to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), an organization that provides software to DMV offices nationwide, there was an issue with the network that connects the country’s various agencies. The outage was “due...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) on Thursday said he would not vote for one of President Biden’s judicial nominees, becoming the second Democratic senator to do so and likely dooming the nomination. Manchin said he would not support Adeel Mangi, who would be the first Muslim-American judge to serve on the federal appeals court if confirmed....
The White House applauded the newly approved United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence (AI) safety Thursday, calling it a “historic step” to ensuring “trustworthy” advancements in technology. The U.N. General Assembly approved the resolution, proposed by the United States and co-sponsored by 123 other countries, senior administration officials told reporters Thursday. The proposal includes a...
Seven Democratic Senators and Independent allies introduced a bill Thursday that would increase the authority of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), allowing the agency to obtain judicial warrants to arrest illegal immigrants charged with violent crimes. The bill comes as Democrats increase hard-on-immigration rhetoric amid a GOP focus on the policy for the 2024 election....
The Manhattan District Attorney's office prosecuting former President Trump's hush money case indicated in a court filing Thursday that no further trial delays were warranted after a trove of new documents punted what was supposed to be the start of the criminal proceeding. Trump’s lawyers had asked for a minimum 90-day delay to review more...
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A Colorado man charged for helping drag a law enforcement officer into a crowd during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday, according to prosecutors. On top of the sentence, Jeffrey Sabol, 53, was also given three years of supervised release and ordered to...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Trump trails Biden in fundraising race Former President Trump significantly trails President Biden in fundraising, as the general election race kicks into gear © AP President Biden has a massive money advantage over former President Trump, and the numbers are...
U.S. Adm. John Aquilino, head of Indo-Pacific Command, said "all indications" point to the Chinese military being ready for a potential invasion of Taiwan by 2027, the date China's leader Xi Jinping has set for a possible military operation. Aquilino testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that China's People's Liberation...
A Los Angeles man is suing over 50 women for negative posts they allegedly wrote about him on social media, claiming the messages are false and defamatory.
Unless and until a bond is secured, the attorney general has many tools at her disposal to collect on the judgment.
A woman is upset no one informed her or any other relatives that her adult son, who is deaf, had been stabbed and hospitalized overnight because police never sent him an American Sign Language interpreter.
The stock market continued its record-setting rally Thursday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average notably flirting with 40,000 as technology shares made major gains. The Dow jumped nearly 350 points, or 0.9 percent, putting it within striking distance of the major milestone. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite have jumped 0.6 percent and 0.7 percent,...
A federal judge shut down former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s (D) latest attempt to regain ballot eligibility by quoting Dr. Seuss, underlining the former governor’s fall from political star to laughingstock. Blagojevich sued the state of Illinois in 2020, alleging the General Assembly’s decision to remove him from office and bar him from running again...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is slated to testify Thursday afternoon before the House regarding the economic outlook of the United States. Earlier Thursday, Yellen made the case for President Biden’s 2025 budget proposal, which includes tax hikes for the wealthiest Americans and an expanded child tax credit. During a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the president’s budget...
President Biden's reelection campaign is pouncing on former President Trump’s fundraising numbers, dubbing its political rival “Broke Don” on Thursday. “Not a Winning Campaign: Broke Don Hides in Basement,” the campaign wrote in an email. “Trump can’t raise money, isn’t campaigning, and is letting convicts and conspiracy theorists run his campaign.” Election filings made public...
Hard-line conservatives are fuming over a bipartisan government funding deal that includes dollars for construction of a new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The proposal was inside the sweeping $1.2 trillion government funding package congressional leaders rolled out on early Thursday, as Congress works to avert a shutdown this weekend. The bill would put $200...
A standalone bill to expand and reauthorize a 30-year-old radiation compensation program that passed the Senate with a filibuster-proof majority will not be included in the text of a House appropriations bill. The upper chamber had previously passed a standalone reauthorization of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), adding several states to its coverage and...
CNBC host Jim Cramer tore into the Department of Justice after it filed suit against Apple on Thursday for allegedly creating a monopoly over smartphones. "I do not like the Justice case against Apple because Apple does so much. But they regard apple as a naked monopolist, it a great company," Cramer wrote in a...