America’s energy future is shining a little brighter after the recent passage of the bipartisan ADVANCE Act to bolster U.S. nuclear power production. The new law seeks to broaden how America generates power, creating a more resilient infrastructure to meet the surging energy demands driven by data centers, electric vehicles and reshored factories. The law isn’t...
Vice President Harris has reversed her position on fracking, signaling a move to the center on the issue. The rightward shift comes as she tries to court swing voters in states like Pennsylvania. Harris was met with a wave of left-wing enthusiasm when she became the party’s presumptive nominee after President Biden left the race. Her...
Former President Trump and Vice President Harris have spent the week exchanging barbs over the prospect of a general election debate, with Harris amping up the pressure on Trump to face her one-on-one. Trump in recent days has increasingly hedged over the prospect of debating Harris. He first told reporters last week that he would...
The Supreme Court is taking up some major education issues, from transgender protections to school choice, over its next term. The conservative-leaning high court is set to consider another effort from President Biden regarding student loans, among other high-profile cases, and may yet add more to its docket as Republican states' efforts to get more...
Top executives of drug companies suing to stop the Biden administration's Medicare price negotiation law are telling shareholders and analysts the final price offers won't materially impact their companies' respective bottom lines. The comments from executives of companies including Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and AbbVie suggest the price cuts won't be as...
Democrats’ giddiness over Vice President Kamala Harris’s competitive “veepstakes” is underscoring the party’s newfound excitement over what it sees as a deep and formidable bench that could extend well beyond 2024. The chatter around who could become Harris’s running mate has elevated several rising stars in the party, including Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Gov. Gavin...
Republicans are making a last push against the finalization of the Biden administration’s move to reschedule marijuana, despite advocates saying the fight isn’t worth the effort. The White House in May began the formal rulemaking process to move marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) — drugs considered to have the highest...
Generation X and millennials face a higher risk of getting certain types of cancer when compared to earlier generations, according to a large new study published Wednesday. In the study, published in the Lancet Public Health journal, researchers from the American Cancer Society (ACS) studied 34 of the most common cancers. They found that cancer...
Senate conservatives are showing early resistance to expediting legislation to address a roughly $3 billion budget shortfall for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), as officials warn millions of veterans’ benefits are at risk in the coming weeks. Some senators had been hopeful of passing the bipartisan bill this week amid growing concern over the...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said former President Trump's attack on Vice President Harris's heritage at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention on Wednesday revealed Trump to be a "desperate, scared old man." “I think those are the comments of a desperate, scared old man, who, over the last week especially, has been having...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP nominee for vice president, defended his running mate’s attacks Wednesday on Vice President Harris’s biracial heritage, calling the reaction “hysterical” and comparing Harris to a “chameleon.” Vance was asked by reporters traveling aboard his campaign plane about former President Trump’s comments earlier in the day in which he mocked...
Former President Trump returned Wednesday to Pennsylvania for the first time since he was shot at a rally outside of Pittsburgh earlier in the month, where he sought to characterize Vice President Harris as a “phony” and welcomed a challenge to compare their records. Trump repeatedly attacked Harris, who is the likely Democratic nominee after...
Vice President Harris on Wednesday responded directly to former President Trump after he mocked her heritage earlier in the day, saying the American people deserve better than the former president. Trump said that Harris was “always of Indian heritage” and then “happened to turn Black” during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention. “It was...
Former Arizona attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh has won the Republican nomination for the House seat representing the state’s 8th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. Hamadeh defeated a crowded field that included his main opponent, former Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters, to win the primary to succeed retiring Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.),...
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that death by firing squad and other forms of execution commonly held to be cruel and unusual are legal in the state if the inmate requests the method of execution. The ruling comes after the state passed a law in 2021 allowing executions by firing squad and electrocution...
Vice President Harris halved former President Trump’s 2024 lead in a newly relaunched national polling average that replaces President Biden with Harris as Trump’s likely Democratic opponent. The first iteration of Cook Political Report’s (CPR) new average, relaunched on Wednesday, shows Trump leading Harris by 1.3 points — 47.5 percent support to 46.2 percent. In the...
United Airlines and Delta Airlines canceled flights to Tel Aviv this week amid rising tensions in the region, the companies announced separately on Wednesday. United will suspend all service to Tel Aviv until further notice, a United spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill, citing “security reasons” for the decision. The suspension begins Wednesday...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is making a campaign appearance Wednesday in Glendale, Ariz., a critical state former President Trump wants to swing back to his column in November. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (D) is considered among the top candidates to be Vice President Harris's running mate, underscoring how importantly both sides see the state. Vance...
A United Nations report released Wednesday said Palestinian detainees were subjected to torture and abuse while in Israeli custody. The United Nations Human Rights Office report investigated Palestinian detentions from October to the end of June and found those detained are sometimes imprisoned without a clear reason and generally held in prolonged secret detention, sometimes...
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Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Rate cut in sight? Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the central bank could cut rates “as soon as” September. © Getty Images Powell said he is looking to see continued “confidence on inflation”...
Iran and its proxies are vowing to punish Israel for the apparent assassination of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, bringing the two countries closer to an all-out war in the Middle East. Israel, which has not acknowledged the strike in Iran, said one of its primary goals in the war against Hamas...
The U.S. has reached a plea deal with three prisoners accused of helping to plan the 9/11 attacks and who are being held at the infamous Guantanamo Bay facility. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi all reached a plea agreement with the U.S., the Defense Department announced...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is facing growing pushback from progressives even as his stock rises in the Harris veepstakes conversation. They are sounding the alarm on his past position on school vouchers and say that his stance on the Israel-Hamas War could highlight a divide in the Democratic Party that could impact the November...
Fox News’s Harris Faulkner said much of the audience enjoyed former President Trump’s interview at the National Association of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) annual convention on Wednesday, despite what she described as “a little bit of contention on the dais.” Faulkner – who co-moderated the event with ABC News’s Rachel Scott and Semafor’s Kadia Goba –...
