GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, who came in second place Monday in the Iowa caucuses, said negativity surrounding the loss was "just part of the business." “That's just the nature of it,” DeSantis said Friday, when asked by Fox News host Neil Cavuto about how he felt in the aftermath. “I can tell you this,...
Former President Trump on Friday threw cold water on the idea of picking former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley as a running mate, hours after she herself appeared to nix the idea of joining his ticket. “She is OK, but she is not presidential timber. And when I say that, that probably means she is...
Former President Trump appeared to mix up former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Friday during a rally in New Hampshire, while discussing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. "“Look at all the people back there — you got a lot of people. This is supposed to be a quaint...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a bill Friday that would ban solitary confinement in city jails. “Under our administration, the city’s jails are getting safer — but this bill would have taken us in the wrong direction," he said in a press release. "Vetoing this bill will keep those in our custody and...
Former President Trump took a swing at New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) during a rally in Granite State Friday, claiming he “didn’t have the guts” to run for president. "You have a governor, who... honestly, he's terrible, this guy. I watch him, he's all over the place," Trump told the crowd in Concord, N.H....
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) formally endorsed former President Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination during a rally Friday, saying “we need a president who will unite our country.” “We need a president who will unite our country — we need Donald Trump,” Scott said, speaking to the former president's supporters at a campaign stop...
Former President Trump called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) presidential campaign one of the "great self-destructions I think I’ve ever witnessed” while speaking to supporters in New Hampshire on Friday. “When I was in Iowa last week, I’d made a lot of different stops and speeches and everything -- every time ... I said, ‘Just,...
Democratic senators pressed the Department of Justice (DOJ) about police usage of facial recognition tools in a Thursday letter. “In recent years, facial recognition and other biometric technologies have become widely used in law enforcement,” the letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland reads. “However, these technologies can be unreliable and inaccurate, especially with respect to...
Former President Trump will make a campaign stop Concord, N.H., Friday evening, ahead of Tuesday's primary election in the Granite State. While Trump is still leading his primary rivals in New Hampshire, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has been gaining on him. According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ's polling average, the former president is...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu implied Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) should have endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley because she gave him his job. “Tim Scott wouldn’t have a job without Nikki Haley,” he told Fox News's Martha MacCallum on Friday. “Nobody cares what Tim Scott thinks," Sununu said. "If they did, he actually wouldn’t...
President Biden on Friday continued a tradition he said came from first lady Jill Biden, by singing "Happy Birthday" to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during an event at the White House. "Pete turned 30 today," Biden quipped during the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting, which drew a laugh from the crowd of mayors. "My...
Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley said she doesn’t want former fellow candidate Chris Christie’s endorsement. When asked in an interview that aired Friday on NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert” if she wanted Christie’s endorsement, Haley responded “No.” “I don’t need it,” the former United Nations ambassador responded when asked why she didn’t want...
Utah’s Republican-controlled House voted Friday to pass a sweeping proposal to keep transgender people out of restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity in taxpayer-funded buildings, sending the measure to the state’s majority GOP Senate for consideration just three days after the start of the session. House Bill 257 aims to prohibit individuals from...
President Biden suggested Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could come around to a two-state solution with Palestine if given the "right" terms. Asked by NBC News if he believed Netanyahu would change his mind on a pathway for Palestine to gain autonomy, he said, "Yes, given the right one." His comments come after the...
Louisiana’s state legislature passed a new congressional map Friday that will add a second Black-majority district while imperiling incumbent Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.). The updated congressional map would retain the 2nd Congressional District as a majority-Black district and make the 6th Congressional District — represented by Graves — the state’s second. Gov. Jeff Landry’s (R)...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden adopts broad rules for EV charger tax credit The Biden administration is taking a broad approach to tax credits for electric vehicle (EV) chargers — interpreting the law so credits can apply to areas where...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Deal to increase child tax credit moving through House A bipartisan deal to increase the child tax credit (CTC) and reduce taxes for businesses just advanced out of the House Ways and Means Committee. © Greg Nash...
Federal regulators announced Friday that convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the defunct blood testing company Theranos, has been banned from participating in federal health programs for 90 years, effectively a lifetime ban. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cited Holmes's 2022 conviction for fraud and...
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday “we can never take for granted” the American aviation safety record, after recent issues with Boeing aircraft. “[W]e never take for granted, the safety record of U.S. aviation,” Buttigieg said in an interview on MSNBC. “It's just an astonishing fact that right now, if you are watching this program,...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Thousands gather in DC as GOP seeks abortion footing Anti-abortion activists descended on Washington Friday for the annual March for Life, the second since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. © Greg Nash, The Hill But instead...
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Friday characterized Sen. Tim Scott's (R-S.C.) expected endorsement of former President Trump as "concerning." The former co-chair of No Labels, a nonprofit group attempting to build support for a third-party ticket, said Scott’s decision is not a “huge surprise” and that Trump, in his eyes, is still the...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Congress pressed to up funds to DOJ for tech cases Top appropriators are facing pressure to increase funding for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust division as it brings cases against the nation’s dominant tech companies. © Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images More...
A special prosecutor in former President Trump’s Georgia criminal case paid for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) to accompany him on flights to San Francisco and Miami as the office investigated Trump, the prosecutor’s wife alleged in their ongoing divorce case on Friday. The documents include bank statements that appear to show special prosecutor...
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) made a last-minute endorsement for former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley ahead of New Hampshire’s GOP primary next week. “America has a decision to make, and our friends and neighbors in New Hampshire have an opportunity to showcase their deep-rooted independent streak. After years of controversy, violent rhetoric and growing polarization, the...
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) still sees a “crack in the door” for a potential presidential run in 2024, but cautions that he has no interest in being a “spoiler.” In an interview with Kevin Cirilli of The Hill's Daily Debrief, the former No Labels co-chair said he is not ruling out the possibility...
