The Supreme Court is finding itself at the center of questions surrounding access to an abortion less than two years after the conservative majority said judges would no longer be the ultimate deciders of such policy. The court will hear two cases on abortion this term, both dealing with a clash between federal law and the near-total abortion bans of red...
After a year of explosive growth, generative artificial intelligence (AI) may be facing its most significant legal threat yet from The New York Times. The Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT tool, for copyright infringement shortly before the new year, alleging the companies impermissibly used millions of its articles to...
President Biden’s reelection campaign is on the defensive as it faces scrutiny over whether it’s been aggressive enough against former President Trump, with several prominent Democrats questioning its strategy and structure. Some of those prominent democrats, most notably former President Obama, have reportedly expressed concerns over the structure of the campaign in which not enough...
Former President Trump is expected to be in a Washington courtroom Tuesday, just six days before the Iowa caucuses. For any candidate other than Trump, the juxtaposition of legal woes with a big political test would spell political doom. But Trump leads GOP primary polls by more than 50 points nationally and by more than...
The House Democrats' campaign arm is launching a push to reach Black, Latino and Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander voters ahead of November's general election. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is putting eight figures behind P.O.W.E.R. — Persuade. Organize. Welcome. Educate. Reach. — The People, the multicultural, multilingual campaign that it hopes will...
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis sharply criticized the government funding deal and accused House Republicans backing the bill of “selling out” their campaign positions from 2022. “By agreeing to this Establishment budget deal, House Republicans are selling out everything that they ran on in 2022,” DeSantis wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “They...
Anthony Scaramucci, who served as former President Trump’s White House communications director, on Monday criticized Wall Street for being too “nonchalant” about the possibility of Trump returning to office and warned Trump poses a “great risk” to business in the country. “It's painful for me to admit this, but Wall Street is basically nonchalant to...
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith on Monday underwent open heart surgery to repair a defect valve that caused his heart attack in late October, the Marine Corps announced. Smith had successful surgery at an unnamed hospital “to repair a bicuspid aortic valve in his heart, which was the cause of his cardiac arrest on Oct. 29,” according to a Marine Corps statement. “He is in good condition...
Former President Trump on Monday attacked former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) in an interview, labeling them as “far worse” than all Democrats. In his interview with Lou Dobbs that aired Monday, Trump repeated the false claim that the Jan. 6 committee deleted all of its evidence and railed against the committee,...
Hard-line House Republican Matt Rosendale (Mont.) on Monday announced plans to introduce an impeachment resolution against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over his failure last week to notify the White House and Congress he had been hospitalized for several days, as well as the troubled withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and the Chinese spy balloon that flew over parts of the country last year. Rosendale, who will be introducing the article of...
Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci sat for a seven-hour closed-door meeting Monday, facing questions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and offering his expertise on preparing for potential outbreaks in the future. The former government official last year agreed to two days of trascribed interviews back-to-back with the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus...
The Secret Service arrested an individual Monday evening after a vehicle collided with a White House gate, the agency said. "Shortly before 6p.m., a vehicle collided with an exterior gate on the White House complex. The driver has been taken into custody & we are investigating the cause & manner of the collision," Secret Service...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} View Online Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Johnson in pressure cooker ahead of shutdown deadline Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) faces major risks as he returns to work this week, aiming to push through a government funding deal to avoid a shutdown. ©...
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday night called for President Biden to be fired after the Pentagon did not disclose that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized until days later. “I think Biden should be fired," she said during a Fox News town hall in Iowa. "This is unbelievable that we have a situation like this....
A defendant in the Georgia election interference case involving former President Trump claimed in new court filings that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and a top prosecutor in the case are engaged in an “improper” romantic relationship, making the indictment “fatally defective.” Mike Roman, a Philadelphia-based political operative who served as Trump’s director...
Halle Berry is giving a star-powered boost to first lady Jill Biden’s upcoming trip to Chicago, joining her at a stop to promote women’s health. The “X-Men” actor will accompany Biden during a visit to the University of Illinois Chicago aimed at highlighting the “importance of advancing research on menopause and women’s health,” the White...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story The ‘tripledemic’ we hoped to avoid Despite having a heap of new, up-to-date medicines against respiratory viruses heading into the winter, three major viruses are currently surging across the U.S. with a peak in cases still to come. ...
An explosion at a historic Texas hotel in Fort Worth on Monday blew out windows, littered downtown streets with large sections of debris from the building and injured 21 people, including one person who was in critical condition, authorities said.
