House Republicans are asking the Department of Justice's (DOJ) inspector general to clarify the scope of his review into complaints from two IRS whistleblowers about the handling of the Hunter Biden investigation. The letter, sent by the heads of the House’s Judiciary, Oversight, and Ways and Means committees, comes after Inspector General Michael Horowitz told...
Home sales are down, mortgage rates are up, and the dregs of inflation are collecting disproportionately in the housing market. Sales of already-built homes fell 2.2 percent in July, dropping 16.6 percent from where they were a year ago, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. The total for July clocked in at a seasonally...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) chastised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) after the governor sent a busload of migrants toward the city while it was bearing the brunt of its first tropical storm in more than 80 years over the weekend. “It is evil to endanger the lives of vulnerable migrants by sending a...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Republicans get ready to rumble in Milwaukee The majority of the Republican presidential contenders will descend on Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the first presidential primary debate of the cycle Wednesday on Fox News. The Hill’s Julia Manchester is on the road to...
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum says former President Trump’s decision to skip the first Republican primary debate this week could present an opportunity for candidates to focus more on issues that are top of mind for voters. “I think it’s kind of a golden opportunity for them,” MacCallum told The Hill during an interview on...
Members of the "Tennessee Three," the group of Tennessee House Democrats that Republicans attempted to remove over a gun control protest earlier this year, railed against new House rules that limit what members can say on the House floor. “There was an article written called ‘Is Tennessee a Democracy?’ and I believe today we are...
Former Trump attorney John Eastman stood by false claims that the 2020 election was stolen after he surrendered to authorities in Fulton County over efforts to overturn the Georgia election. “Absolutely,” Eastman said after NBC News’s Ali Vitali asked him whether he still believes the 2020 election was stolen. "No question. No question about it."...
2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins a “petulant teenager” in a Tuesday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, in response to a Monday interview where she pressed him about topics like his recent comments on 9/11. “Hilarious interview with @CNN last night,” Ramaswamy wrote in his post....
Almost half of Generation Z adults don't expect to get any of the Social Security benefits they’ve earned, according to a new survey. In a survey released Tuesday by the Nationwide Retirement Institute, 45 percent of Gen Z adults between the ages of 18 to 26 say they expect not to “get a dime” of...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave final approval Tuesday to begin a plan for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to release treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday. At a cabinet meeting Tuesday, Kishida described the controversial move as an important step in the plant decommissioning and in...
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it is awarding $1.4 billion in grants through its coronavirus initiative to fund the development of "a new generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19 for years to come." Through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded...
Three top House Republicans sent a letter to the Biden administration this week expressing "deep concern" about potential threats to national security from an alleged agreement being kept under wraps between the U.S. and Iran. The Monday letter — signed by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (Texas), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (La.), and...
Over eight in 10 New Yorkers said the recent migrant surge to the Big Apple is a “serious problem,” which comes as the state struggles to house the influx of asylum-seekers into the state, according to a new survey. A poll published Tuesday from Siena College found 82 percent of New York voters said the recent influx...
A group that integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when it was segregated by race has come out to decry Arkansas barring AP African American studies from counting toward credit for graduation. Arkansas has not banned AP African American studies from its schools but said the class will not count for credit toward...
Vivek Ramaswamy is seeking to clean up comments he made that appeared to cast doubt about the origins of the 9/11 attacks as part of an interview released just before the first GOP presidential debate. Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old upstart GOP presidential candidate who had been riding a hot streak, said The Atlantic misquoted him and that...
If voters were to “vote for the crook” because the other option is so repugnant, who would get that vote?
Two major generic drug companies Monday settled charges of criminal price fixing with the Department of Justice (DOJ). The U.S. division of Israel-based Teva will pay a $225 million criminal penalty over five years, and the U.S. division of India-based Glenmark will pay a $30 million criminal penalty, the DOJ announced. The two companies entered...
GOP presidential candidate Will Hurd on Tuesday knocked the Republican National Committee (RNC) over a “lack of transparency and confusion” surrounding candidate requirements for the party's first primary debate. “The lack of transparency and confusion around the RNC’s debate requirements is antithetical to the democratic process. The polling standards are arbitrary, unclear, and lack consistency....
The Biden administration has finalized the restoration of Obama-era offshore oil drilling rules, passed in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, that the Trump administration rolled back. The final rule restores the bulk of the 2016 protections, including a required analysis and investigation of any failures within three months of an incident...
The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed a new rule to require manufactures to add a seat belt warning system for the rear seats of cars, trucks and some buses in order to increase seat belt use.
Young adults are drinking less than in decades before, according to recent findings from Gallup. Just 62 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 say they drink, according to the findings, a drop from 72 percent two decades ago. Older adults who are 55 and above, meanwhile, are drinking more. Gallup found 59 percent in this category say...
There is a pressing need for a clearer and workable regulatory framework to prevent financial crimes using cryptocurrency.
A legal activist group is asking the Supreme Court to take up a new challenge to the role of race in school admissions, this time in one of the nation's top high schools. The libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation on Monday asked the high court to hear a case on how Thomas Jefferson High School for...
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are looking to expand their investigative power following their July hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), or UFOs, which they say left more questions than answers. Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) joined The Hill’s event last week, “The Truth Is Out...
A majority of New Jersey residents said they think middle and high schools should notify parents if their children ask to be identified by a different gender from the one on their school registration, according to a new poll. The Monmouth University poll found that 77 percent of adults in New Jersey think the parental...
