The strongest argument against replacing President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic nominee is the notion that no suitable successor exists. But there is, and not just a damn good one but one of the most qualified people to ever run for the office: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The rising frequency and intensity of extreme heat events are exacerbating the health and safety concerns of America's older population — an already vulnerable community, and one that's growing fast. "We're seeing increasing heat and increasing extremes of heat," said Ian Neel, a geriatrician and an associate professor at the University of California San Diego School of...
Democrats are in a stalemate. On one side, there's President Biden, a beloved patriarch of the party whom Democrats have for years called "Uncle Joe." He has built a coalition of progressive, Black and Hispanic voters and lawmakers. He is quick to point out that he defeated former President Donald Trump once, and he can...
A man in Florida has been arrested after he made threats to kill former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Trump’s newly named vice-presidential pick. The Jupiter Police Department in Florida announced Friday that Michael Wiseman had been arrested on charges of Written Threats to Kill after an investigation found that he wrote threats...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said that fellow Marine Corp veteran Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who was chosen this week as former President Trump’s running mate, doesn’t uphold “Marine values.” Moulton joined Crooked Media’s “Pod Save the World” on Friday where he was asked by Tommy Vietor what he thought about Trump's recent announcement of naming...
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who served in Congress for nearly three decades, has died at the age of 74, her family announced Friday evening. “Today, with incredible grief for our loss yet deep gratitude for the life she shared with us, we announce the passing of United States Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of the...
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Vice President at large John Palmer announced he is mounting a challenge to current President Sean O’Brien after he gave a speech at the Republican National Convention. In a letter, Palmer said he was officially announcing his candidacy for Teamsters national office in the 2026 election and invited all Teamsters to...
Michael Mortiz, a major Democratic donor, has joined the calls for President Biden to drop out of the presidential race against former President Trump. With his public comment, Mortiz — a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist — becomes one of the Democratic party’s largest contributors to pressure Biden to suspend his campaign. “Sadly, President Biden...
At least two people have died and more than two dozen were hospitalized in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning linked to meat sliced at grocery store deli counters, federal health officials said Friday.
The search history of Thomas Matthew Crooks, identified as the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally outside Pittsburgh last weekend, includes photos of Trump and President Biden, among other things. Crooks, who was killed after opening fire at the campaign event, had searched dates of Trump’s appearances and the...
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) released a statement Friday urging President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, joining a growing list of Democrats to make the call. Brown pointed to the the issues at the top of mind for his constituents in the Buckeye State, including job creation, giving law enforcement tools for the fentanyl...
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Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) joined the growing list of Democrats calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race Friday, suggesting in an interview that former President's Obama and Clinton should help vet new candidates for a "mini primary." Lofgren joined MSNBC Friday to discuss what would happen if Biden were to decide to...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump targets green policies in GOP convention address Former President Trump used his speech to attack President Biden's agenda, calling it a "Green New Scam" and indicating that he'd seek to redirect climate-related funding. © Getty...
Thousands of flights were canceled and tens of thousands were delayed, leading to long lines at airports in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
The White House said Friday that is setting a goal of ending the federal government’s purchasing of single-use plastics by 2035. The Biden administration added that it would try to phase out federal purchasing of such plastic for food service operations, events and packaging by 2027. “Plastic production and waste have doubled over the past...
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) plans to introduce a bill to codify the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) in the wake of a Crowdstrike IT meltdown that led to widespread chaos across U.S. and global computer systems. “When a cyber event happens, be it an attack or an accident, there should be an automatic process by...
When former first lady Melania Trump appeared on stage in the final moments of the Republican National Convention to congratulate her husband former President Trump, he greeted her with a startled expression. The former president leaned back and opened his arms in a gesture of shock, before returning his spouse’s embrace. Melania Trump has been...
The president had a brutal week, but is heading into the weekend still atop the Democratic ticket, with his campaign beating back a barrage of private and public pleas for his exit. The president’s week was derailed by a positive COVID-19 test result — grim counterprogramming to the Republican National Convention amid an election where...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Tech outage ripples worldwide A global technology outage affecting Microsoft wreaked havoc on airports, disrupted hospital operations and even had “limited” impacts on the Paris Olympics. © Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer A “defect” in a...
Former GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie argued with “The View” hosts on Friday over who he would vote for in the upcoming election, saying neither former President Trump nor President Biden would earn his support. “I know you’re not voting for Trump. Would you vote for a Democratic ticket?” host Ana Navarro asked the former...
A federal judge on Friday declined to dismiss several criminal charges against George Santos, the ex-Republican House member expelled from Congress last year. Santos faces 23 counts connected to separate accusations he misled and mistreated campaign donors, lied on financial disclosures and inflated campaign finance reports. The former lawmaker, who has pleaded not guilty to...
Employees of a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied migrant children repeatedly subjected minors in its care to sexual abuse and harassment, the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged in a new lawsuit. From 2015 through at least the end of 2023, multiple employees at Southwest Key Programs, the country’s largest private provider of housing...
