Tuesday’s news that federal investigators have notified former President Trump of potential criminal charges for his efforts to retain power after his 2020 defeat has captivated Washington, roiled the 2024 presidential race and sparked an outcry from Trump’s GOP allies on and off Capitol Hill. But for the lawmakers who spent the better part of the...
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) released a cryptic video Tuesday that will raise questions about whether the moderate Republican might decide to run for president in 2024. “I've always been an underdog, and people have always counted us out, but every single time we've beaten the odds. If we can accomplish all we did...
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) said Tuesday that it executed a search warrant related to the more than quarter century-long investigation of rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 slaying. The “All Eyez on Me” rapper, who used the stage name 2Pac, was killed in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting at 25. His death remains unsolved....
Arlington, Va. and Washington, D.C. topped a ranking of America’s fittest cities released Tuesday, with Wichita and Oklahoma City taking up the rear among the 100 largest U.S. cities. The 16th annual American Fitness Index is a collaboration between the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the Elevance Health Foundation. The index uses census and...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday said he hopes former President Trump doesn't get charged in the Justice Department's investigation into Trump's efforts to stay in office after losing the 2020 presidential election. “I don’t think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago in January,"...
Nearly 50 House and Senate Democrats want the Biden administration to do more to protect abortion rights by enacting stronger shielding to prevent people's private medical records from being used by law enforcement agencies. In a letter sent Tuesday to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Democrats called on the White House to...
U.S. pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced Tuesday it is suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, becoming the latest of several organizations challenging the provision established by the Inflation Reduction Act. J&J joins fellow pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co., Bristol Myers Squibb as well as...
Former Ohio governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said Tuesday he’s “proud” of decisions he’s made to publicly disavow former President Trump in the past and called on 2024 GOP presidential candidates to have the courage to do the same. “When I took on Trump, from the beginning — refused to endorse him,...
A vast majority of college students say they believe legacy admissions into universities are unfair, according to a new survey from Generation Lab. The poll found 39 percent of young people say it is “definitely not” fair for colleges to consider if a person’s family attended the same school in the admissions process, while 36...
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday rejected an emergency request to block Microsoft and Activision Blizzard from merging. In a brief order, Kagan denied a last-minute bid from a group of gamers to temporarily halt the $68.7 billion deal. The gamers’ attorney, Joseph Alioto, argued the deal would lessen competition in the video game industry,...
The Congressional Black Caucus is launching a super PAC to mobilize Black voters ahead of 2024 in an effort to give the House a Democratic majority and, in the process, elect the nation’s first Black Speaker of the House. The Rolling Sea Action Fund will raise money as well as invest in different advertising and...
Slavery still exists in 2023; in fact, many of the products you use or wear every day could have been sourced from slave labor. In China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), it is estimated that close to 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities are being detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In what...
Congressional Democratic lawmakers are slated to hold a press briefing Tuesday afternoon to reintroduce the Freedom to Vote Act. The event is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. EDT. Watch the live video above.
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Trump faces more charges ahead of 2024 Former President Trump's announcement Tuesday that he had been contacted by the special counsel over his involvement in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, is the latest legal bombshell to roil the 2024 race....
Student loan borrowers could save thousands of dollars over the life of their loans due to changes to income driven repayment (IDR) plans set to go into effect this fall. The changes are possible despite a blow dealt to debt forgiveness by the Supreme Court late last month. The Biden administration introduced the Saving on...
Spirits are high among the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters as negotiations with shipping giant UPS stay frozen ahead of a July 31 contract negotiation deadline, The Hill found in a range of interviews. If the Teamsters strike, some 340,000 drivers, warehouse workers and other employees could walk off the job in one of the...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is meeting with two top Republican leaders in the Senate in Washington, D.C., over the next two days, a spokesperson for the governor confirmed to The Hill. Kemp will meet with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Tuesday and National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chair Steve Daines (R-Mont.) Wednesday. Politico first...
Tech giant Meta’s large language model will be available for free commercial and research use, rivaling OpenAI’s GPT-4 that powers the popular ChatGPT tool, the social media company said Tuesday. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is releasing its open source Llama 2 large language model, which can power artificial intelligence (AI) tools,...
Concerns over the absence of regulatory guardrails are illustrated by the agency’s challenge to the Microsoft/Activision acquisition.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the strong-but-cooling labor market is a key factor helping to slow inflation in the United States. “The labor market’s cooling without there being any real distress associated with it,” Yellen told Bloomberg News in an interview on Tuesday. The U.S. labor market added 209,000 jobs in June, according to data...
The insidious feature of climate change is that there is no normal and there won’t be one anytime soon.
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin asserted that former President Trump is profiting off legal woes after the former president announced Tuesday he was notified he is a target in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Jan. 6 investigation. In a Truth Social post Tuesday morning, Trump said he received a target letter on...
Former President Trump maintained a sizable lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in a New Hampshire primary poll released Tuesday, despite dropping several points in the key early voting state. The Granite State Poll found that 37 percent of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire said they would support Trump, while 23 percent...
A United Nations agency warned of an increased risk of heart attacks and deaths as the northern hemisphere reeled from heat waves Tuesday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the U.N.’s authority on weather and climate, said global temperatures have reached “unprecedented” levels within the last few weeks in a post on its website. According to...
The emergence of a viable third-party candidate is likely his only path to victory.
