Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) weighed in Tuesday on the speakership battle raging on Capitol Hill, noting that he was against Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) "when it wasn't cool" during his time as a congressman. "I opposed McCarthy when it wasn't cool years ago," DeSantis told Scripps News. "He's really somebody that Donald Trump has backed and...
Instead of sunny skies and ocean breezes, Floridians found haze and smoke when they stepped outside Tuesday morning.
Ten years before meeting the love of his life, Ben Clark was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma, a rare blood cancer.
A Pentagon communications official last week was arrested and charged for alleged involvement in a Washington-area dogfighting ring for more than two decades, Maryland authorities revealed Monday. Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., 62, of Arnold, Md., was a deputy chief information officer for command, control and communications at the Defense Department, according to his LinkedIn page....
Newly sworn-in Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) is free to run for a full term in the U.S. Senate if she chooses to do so, a spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) office confirmed in a statement Tuesday. “There are no conditions related to the Governor’s appointment of Senator-designate Butler. That decision is entirely hers,”...
The Colorado Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear the case of a Christian baker who refused to make a birthday cake for a transgender woman. Jack Phillips, the owner of a Denver area bakery, won a partial victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake. He argued that...
The Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday announced eight indictments against Chinese companies and nationals in cases involving fentanyl and the precursor chemicals used to produce the deadly drug. The indictments charge China-based companies and their employees with crimes relating to fentanyl and methamphetamine production, the distribution of synthetic opioids and sales of the chemicals used...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization to Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, bringing the number of immunizations effective against the current circulating strain up to three. Novavax's vaccine, a more traditional protein-based shot that differs from the mRNA vaccines that have become commonplace, has been authorized for people 12 years of...
The unprecedented nature of the fentanyl crisis requires novel interventions that make the drug supply safer.
The criminal trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried got underway in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, as the onetime darling of cryptocurrency faces charges for orchestrating what prosecutors have described as “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.” The 31-year-old ran the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, once valued at $32 billion, until its high-profile collapse last...
New privacy protocols introduced in the late stages of census planning “substantially degraded” the quality and timeliness of the data collected, according to a new report on 2020 census data. While the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine praised the U.S. Census Bureau for being able to adapt and innovate during...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Butler makes history in Washington Laphonza Butler becomes the first Black lesbian to openly serve as senator. Her appointment could also add to an already competitive California Senate race. © AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File Butler, who has spent the past...
Political organization No Labels, which has been pushing for a bipartisan ticket to mount a third party bid for the White House, is urging state Democratic Party officials not to interfere with its efforts after President Biden said its leaders had a "democratic right" to do what they're doing. Following Biden’s remarks, former Connecticut Sen....
Several 2026 FIFA World Cup host committees have signed a team of lobbyists — including a former congressman — to help score federal funding. Foley & Lardner recently registered to lobby on behalf of World Cup committees for Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, Miami and the combined force of New York and New Jersey. The firm...
Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) on Tuesday was sworn in to fill the remainder of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) seat. Butler, who previously served as the president of EMILY's List, was sworn in by Vice President Harris. The new California senator served as a senior adviser to Harris's 2020 presidential campaign. “I'm honored to...
NEW YORK — The judge overseeing former President Trump’s New York fraud trial issued a limited gag order for all parties on Tuesday after Trump’s Truth Social account made a post targeting the judge’s principal clerk while she sat just feet away from him in the courtroom. Judge Arthur Engoron issued the gag order barring...
While prescribed burns are a critical tool in wildfire prevention, warming climate conditions are restricting the window of time in which they can be safely deployed, a new study has found. Kindled by highly trained firefighters, these controlled blazes help clear away excess dry plant matter that could otherwise catalyze what the study authors described...
To the CCP, contradicting the party line anywhere challenges the legitimacy of its rule.
Laphonza Butler is slated to be sworn in by Vice President Harris Tuesday as the first LGBTQ+ person to represent California in the Senate. She was appointed to the post by California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the death of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was the longest-serving female senator. Butler, 44, becomes the third...
A new nationwide survey found that about one out of 20 U.S. adults reported using ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 despite the lack of evidence that these medicines do anything to fight the virus. The study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) included 13,438 people who said they had...
President Biden on Tuesday spoke to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) after he was a victim of an armed carjacking in Washington D.C., the night before. “The president did have an opportunity to speak with the congressman today and we will always continue to speak out against any sort of violence,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told...
The nature of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship is now a matter of national security, as John Kirby is weighing in on the much-buzzed about pair. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre introduced Kirby, the national security adviser, at Tuesday’s press briefing by remarking that her team had been questioning if he knew who...
Republican presidential candidates Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie will on Tuesday appear separately during "Special Report," Fox News' nightly evening newscast, after being threatened with a ban from participating in future GOP debates if they appeared jointly on the network. Bret Baier, the network's chief political anchor, during Monday's broadcast announced his show had plans...
The Army fell short of its recruiting goal by about 10,000 people this year, prompting the service to launch major reforms aimed at attracting and signing new soldiers, the Army’s top leaders revealed Tuesday. The service hit just 55,000 contracts in fiscal 2023, which ended on Sept. 30 — far short of its target of 65,000 new...
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called on House Republicans to expel Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and defeat his motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his post. In a scathing op-ed published in The Washington Post, Gingrich attacked the Florida Republican as “anti-Republican” and said Gaetz was engaging in “childish behavior”...
