Story at a glance More women than ever are studying and practicing medicine across the United States — but a considerable majority of the country's working doctors are still men. In recent years, female medical students have begun outnumbering their male peers. As of the 2023-2024 school year, they make up more than 55 percent of...
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D) leads Republican Kari Lake and independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) in a hypothetical three-way race for Sinema’s seat, according to a new poll. The Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey found Gallego leading by 6 points with 36 percent support to 30 percent for Lake and 21 percent for Sinema, while 13...
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is doubling as a coronation for former President Trump, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the GOP. Trump will address the conference on Saturday, taking the stage hours before he is likely to thump Nikki Haley in her home state of South Carolina as he...
A Black teenager in Texas repeatedly suspended over his dreadlocks will get his day in court on Thursday in a case that advocates say has broad implications for racial hair discrimination. Darryl George, 18, has been in in-school suspension for months after Barbers Hill High School said his hair violates policy. His family sued, saying the...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that state GOP subpoenas for voter information after the 2020 election are “unenforceable,” overturning a lower court ruling. Republican Pennsylvania Senate lawmakers moved to subpoena voter information in 2021, but the state's Democratic attorney general legally challenged the effort and argued the real purpose of the subpoenas was to...
The Teamsters political action group donated $45,000 to the Republican National Committee (RNC) late last month, according to Federal Election Commission records, a rare case of the labor union supporting the GOP. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien met with former President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in mid-January, with the donation following days later. The union’s...
A New York appeals court ruled Wednesday that a law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections in New York City violates the state’s constitution. The Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department ruled against the bill allowing noncitizens to vote in local New York City elections, including for mayor, in a 3-1 decision released Wednesday. The...
President Biden on Wednesday said that several foreign leaders have told him he has to beat former President Trump, the likely GOP nominee, in November. “As I walk out of meetings, a head of state will find an excuse to come up close…and say ‘you’ve got to win,’” Biden recalled at a fundraiser in San...
U.S. Marshals took a former reality TV cast member into custody on Tuesday after she failed to surrender herself to federal prison to begin her sentence.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill Wednesday allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages. State lawmakers approved Tennessee House Bill 878 last week. The legislation states people “shall not be required to solemnize a marriage” if they refuse to doing so based on their “conscience or religious beliefs.” According to the Tennessee...
A federal judge affirmed Wednesday that MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell’s company must pay a $5 million arbitration award to a software developer who disputed data that Lindell said supported claims of election interference in the 2020 election. The Associated Press reported that Lindell said he plans to appeal the ruling. The AP noted that when asked...
President Biden on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "crazy SOB" and bashed former President Trump for his reaction to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Biden was talking about climate change at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Calif., when he referred to Putin as an acronym for son of a b----. “This...
Former President Trump’s attorneys requested a 30-day extension Wednesday on the time frame to pay a $355 million business fraud verdict levied against him last week. The attorneys argued that New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is in an “unseemly rush” to enforce the verdict, “particularly given the magnitude of Judgment.” Trump would have...
Trump adviser Chris LaCivita blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over his speculation into former President Trump’s search for a vice presidential candidate, dubbing the former GOP rival a “sad little man.” DeSantis told supporters during a call Wednesday that Trump should not play “identity politics” with his vice president pick, NBC News reported, after...
CORRECTION: HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra was responding to the Alabama Supreme Court's decision with his Wednesday social media post. A previous version of this article misinterpreted his post. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday decried the Alabama Supreme Court's recent ruling that frozen embryos and fertilized eggs are children under the...
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra decried the recent University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) health care system's decision to pause in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments Wednesday. “I've long made clear that overturning Roe was just the beginning of the attacks on women’s health, privacy, & autonomy — and that's exactly what we...
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary blasted the $355 million New York business fraud judgment against former President Trump on Wednesday, predicting that it will quickly be shot down on appeal. O’Leary said that the judgment came from a “rogue judge” who went far beyond the norms of the law and is putting New York business...
An Arizona prosecutor said she will not extradite a New York murder suspect to the state on Wednesday, claiming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) could not be trusted to keep the man behind bars. Maricopa County prosecutor Rachel Mitchell said in a press conference Wednesday that the suspect will instead remain in Arizona. “Having...
Alabama’s Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are people, the first time a court has ever given rights and protections so early after conception. The ruling is limited to Alabama, but it has far-reaching potential and seems poised to open a new front in the fight over reproductive rights in the country. Alabama...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Alabama fertility doctors pause treatment after top court ruling Alabama’s Supreme Court issued a ruling this week finding that frozen embryos conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) can be considered children under state law , with health providers already...
While it does not comfort those already impacted, railroad safety data indicates that most American communities are safe and have nothing to fear. Train accidents are becoming increasingly rare, which makes those that do occur more notable.
A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report © Allison Robbert House Republicans brush off FBI informant's indictment Top Republicans in the House are brushing aside the indictment of a former FBI informant who was a star witness in the GOP's effort to impeach President...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Hundreds sign letter calling for deepfake regulation Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang were among hundreds who signed an open letter Wednesday calling for deepfake regulation. © The Associated Press More than 400 artificial intelligence (AI) experts, artists...
As the shocking death of a nonbinary Oklahoma high school student reverberates through the LGBTQ community, advocacy groups and state and federal lawmakers say hateful rhetoric and laws that target LGBTQ individuals are to blame for the teenager’s untimely passing. Nex Benedict, 16, was a sophomore at Owasso High School in Owasso, Okla., a Tulsa...
Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is slated to appear at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort next month. According to an invitation shared exclusively with The Hill, Gabbard is set to be the keynote speaker at the 917 Society’s annual fundraiser on March 7 for a night in Palm Beach “celebrating the Constitution.” The event comes after Trump,...
