Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday she’ll vote for former President Trump over President Biden this fall. “As a voter, I put my priorities on a president who's going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account, who would secure the border, no more excuses. A president who would...
A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report © Greg Nash Party leaders battle for high ground ahead of doomed border security bill vote Republicans and Democrats are angling for the upper hand ahead of a Thursday vote on a bipartisan border bill that seems...
Media conglomerate News Corp has struck a deal with OpenAI to share content from the company's various media properties with the artificial intelligence company. The multiyear agreement, announced Wednesday, will mean OpenAI has permission to display content from News Corp mastheads, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and The Sunday Times in response...
House Republicans are plotting an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 annual government funding bills for fiscal 2025 by the August recess, but some are tempering expectations around the goal as negotiators say they are already off to a late start. GOP leadership unveiled the proposed plan at a conference meeting early Wednesday, which aims...
A union representing miners has filed a legal challenge to a Biden administration climate rule. The United Mine Workers of America filed a petition to try to undo a Biden regulation requiring coal plants to capture their emissions or shut down. The rule is expected to accelerate the nation’s movement away from coal power. "The...
Nearly half of registered American voters say former President Trump did something illegal in his ongoing hush money criminal trial in New York, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Quinnipiac University national poll, conducted Thursday through Monday, shows 46 percent of registered voters say they think Trump did something illegal, while 29 percent say...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged committee leaders to advance legislation regulating artificial intelligence (AI) during a Wednesday meeting. Schumer convened committee chairs to discuss AI a week after releasing a report with guidance on how to regulate AI, the senator said in a statement. “Building on the release of our bipartisan AI...
A farmworker in Michigan is the second human to be infected with the current H5N1 bird flu virus, health officials said. The farmworker had mild symptoms and has since recovered, Michigan health officials said Wednesday. The virus has been circulating in dairy and poultry farms across the U.S. this spring, and the farmworker was in...
A Maryland man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C. Thomas Joseph Kelly Jr., 36, was at the Capitol for more than three hours during the Jan. 6 insurrection during which he allegedly assaulted and interfered with police...
The Kenya state dinner at the White House will feature performances from country music star Brad Paisley and the Howard Gospel Choir, along with a menu aimed at "welcoming the beginning of summer." The Thursday night soiree honoring Kenyan President William Ruto and first lady Rachel Ruto will "mark the 60th anniversary of the United States's...
Former President Obama celebrated President Biden’s 200th judicial nominee being confirmed to the federal bench Wednesday. “@POTUS just confirmed his 200th judge — not an easy accomplishment with a narrow majority in the Senate. And more than half are women and people of color,” Obama said in a post on the social platform X. “Judges...
This is a desperate political stunt during an election year.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is slated to deliver remarks at the Hudson Institute on Wednesday about foreign policy and national security weaknesses amid the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, as well as rising tension in Asia. Haley, who suspended her 2024 White House bid in early March, has yet to...
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story How California could help drive down global seaport emissions California could lead a global effort to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ocean cargo ships and minimize air pollution near seaports, policy analysts have determined. © AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes As the busiest...
He endorsed him in 2020, but Charlamagne tha God is defending his decision not to publicly back President Biden ahead of this year's election, saying "both candidates are trash." "I am going to vote in November and I'm going to vote my best interests," the "Breakfast Club" radio host told the co-hosts on "The View" on Wednesday....
Most Americans say they will likely tune in to the first presidential debate next month, according to a new survey. Former President Trump accepted President Biden’s offer to debate one another ahead of the November election. The first debate has been set for Thursday, June 27. According to the survey conducted by Quinnipiac University, 72 percent...
The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting announced a lawsuit Wednesday against more than 90 officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) over their response to the 2022 shooting. The lawsuit, filed against 92 individual Texas DPS officers, noted the officers had active shooter response training...
The National Weather Service warns of a "long swath of severe weather potential" that spans over a dozen states.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) received a rebuke on the House floor Wednesday after he remarked on former President Trump’s ongoing hush money trial, comments that were deemed “offensive.” The spat — which grinded the House floor to a halt for more than an hour — began after McGovern, during debate on a procedural rule, described Trump’s current...
A top Russian official on Wednesday denied U.S. claims that Moscow had launched a weapon into low-Earth orbit that could potentially attack other satellites, calling it “fake news.” Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said a day earlier that last week the Kremlin launched a satellite assessed as “likely a counter-space weapon presumably capable...
District Attorney Alvin Bragg clearly struck a foul blow in this case by gambling that a Manhattan jury would ignore the abject lack of evidence.
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story What we learned from the primaries in Georgia, Oregon and Kentucky A handful of states saw key primary contests on Tuesday, teeing up November matchups in closely watched House races and underscoring voter frustration with both President Biden and...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) introduced a measure Wednesday that would require political advertisements to disclose the use of artificial intelligence (AI) software, in what could be the federal government’s first foray into regulating the use of the technology in politics. If adopted by the full commission, advertisers on broadcast television, radio and cable would...
The biblical proverb, "Physician, heal thyself," can only be attained when we normalize seeking care for all aspects of our well-being.
An attorney for a 9-year-old girl whom a former American Airlines flight attendant is accused of secretly recording inside a plane lavatory is calling one of the airline's defense strategies "shocking and outrageous."