Democratic strategist Van Jones argued Wednesday was a "terrible day" for Democrats following President Biden's COVID-19 diagnosis, arguing his response contrasted that of former President Trump, who faced an attempted assassination on Saturday. "Today is a terrible day. If you pull back and look at this thing, strength versus weakness, a bullet couldn't stop Trump....
Speakers at the Republican National Convention criticized President Biden over the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and his response following the death of 13 service members during the Kabul airport bombing. The RNC played a video interviewing some of the Gold Star families who lost members of their families during the 2021 bombing and later brought...
In an interview with BET on Wednesday evening, President Biden admitted that he wasn’t able to take as much action as he wished following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. Speaking with Ed Gordon, Biden said, “I had to take independent action that wasn't as strong as what I wanted the...
A video show Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) aggressively confronting the head of the Secret Service at the Republican National Convention, just days after the assassination attempt against former President Trump put the agency under intense scrutiny. “This was an assassination attempt. You owe the people answers. You owe President Trump answers,”...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) confronted President Biden on his candidacy in the 2024 race, telling the president in a private weekend conversation it would be best if he dropped out of the race, ABC News reported Wednesday. The reported meeting, coupled with a reporting that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) privately suggested...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) opened up about heated exchanges she’s had in Congress in a recent interview. Greene is one of the most outspoken GOP lawmakers in the House and has had tense exchanges with her colleagues. In a recent appearance on comedian Russell Brand's show, he asked her whether she'd ever said anything...
The granddaughter of former President Trump is slated to take the stage at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. Kai Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump Jr., posted on her Instagram that she will be speaking at the convention at 9 p.m. CT. This is the same time slot her father will be speaking, according...
President Biden appeared to make light of testing positive for COVID-19 in a fundraising pitch aimed at technology billionaire Elon Musk. “I’m sick,” the president said in a post on the social platform X Wednesday after the White House said Wednesday evening that the president had tested positive for COVID-19. “Of Elon Musk and his...
Vice President Harris condemned the recent assassination attempt against former President Trump at a campaign event Wednesday. “I will say a few words about the attempt on the life of former President Trump over the weekend,” Harris said at the event in Michigan. “As we all know, it was a heinous, horrible and cowardly act....
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, a Black man who was killed by police in 2014, calling his death a "painful chapter in the history" of the city. "Today marks 10 years since the tragic death of Eric Garner. The events that...
The Navy on Wednesday exonerated 256 Black sailors found to be unjustly punished in 1944, after a deadly California port explosion revealed racial disparities in the military, service Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced. The explosion, which took place exactly 80 years ago on July 17, 1944, at Port Chicago Naval Magazine outside San Francisco, killed...
The Biden campaign is sounding alarms about deportations and detention camps during a possible second term for former President Trump, whose former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, Thomas Homan, is expected to speak at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night. “Nothing spells unity or American values like putting the architect of...
President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, marking the third time in the past two years the president has tested positive for the virus. The White House on Wednesday said Biden was “experiencing mild symptoms” and would return to Delaware to self-isolate and "carry out all of his duties fully during that time." He...
Presented by PhRMA — TK {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Warren: Dems will 'suspend the filibuster' to codify Roe The Massachusetts senator says if Democrats control all three branches of government in 2025, they can “suspend” the filibuster and pass abortion rights protections into law. © Greg Nash, The Hill “We...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Former site of Texas ‘Mexican school’ is newest national park The Biden administration has named the site of the Blackwell School, a segregated school for Mexican American children in Marfa, Texas, as the country’s newest national park, Interior...
President Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced Wednesday evening. The president was expected to speak at a conference on Wednesday afternoon but UnidosUS President Janet Murguía came out on stage to tell the audience waiting for him that he tested positive. “Regrettably, I was just on the phone with President Biden...
President Biden’s reelection campaign released its first ad hitting Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former President Trump’s running mate, over his stance on abortion. The one-minute ad, titled “They Don’t Care,” was narrated by a Kentucky woman, Hadley Duvall, who was raped starting at 5 years old by her stepfather and got pregnant at 12 years...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called for new U.S. Secret Service leadership on Wednesday, in the wake of a recent assassination attempt on former President Trump. “Last week’s near-assassination of former President Trump was a grave attack on American democracy,” McConnell said in a post on social platform X. “The nation deserves answers and...
Senators were told during a briefing call Wednesday that the Secret Service had flagged Thomas Matthew Crooks as suspicious more than an hour before he shot from a rooftop at former President Trump, and that a countersniper spotted him as a potential threat 19 minutes before the shooting, according to a person familiar with the...
A Florida panel approved language that will accompany a November ballot initiative on abortion, saying the initiative will have a negative impact on the state budget, a move the amendment’s supporters decried as a politically motivated “dirty trick.” The amendment would result in “significantly more abortions and fewer live births per year,” and there is...
Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R), one of former President Trump’s closest Senate allies, called on the Biden administration Wednesday to deliver daily briefings about its investigation into the shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa., over the weekend. “The security of our Republic is being questioned. The Biden administration can’t wait until the investigation is...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Swing state housing costs nearly double since 2020 Monthly housing payments have jumped across the country since 2020, and a new report found monthly housing costs have nearly doubled in states that will decide the 2024...
MILWAUKEE — Sen. JD Vance's (R-Ohio) address to the Republican National Convention is expected to heavily focus on his personal story and how it ties in with some of former President Trump's key issues. Vance's remarks will be his first speech since being tapped as Trump's vice presidential nominee. According to a source familiar with...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story AI's growing energy demand derails Big Tech climate goals As major technology companies race to take advantage of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, the energy-guzzling technology is derailing their efforts to rein in emissions and become carbon neutral or negative. © Nathan...
