USAGM officials have been using taxpayer funds to provide legal and logistical assistance to outside individuals to smear media critics, including British academics who wrote a book about Michael Pack's tenure as CEO.
Lawmakers in the House are launching plan B to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) failed to pass plan A, a six-month stopgap bill with a non-citizen voter ID measure sought by former President…
Conservatives have secured multiple victories in the higher education space the past few years, taking advantage of missteps by opponents and a more aggressive movement that is unlikely to slow down its battle with college administrators.…
The multilayered nature of presidential and candidate security is complicating calls for former President Trump to have the same level of protection as a sitting president, prompting a Republican clash with Secret Service, who says Trump’s…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking on a front-and-center role in the response to the second assassination attempt against former President Trump, catapulting him back onto the national political stage. DeSantis announced on Tuesday that…
A plethora of polling has emerged in the past couple of days, giving fresh insights into the race for the White House. More than 20 swing-state polls entirely conducted after the Sep. 10 debate between Vice President Harris and former…
The Biden administration on Friday announced that it has selected 25 battery technology projects to receive $3 billion in federal funding. The projects receiving federal funds pertain to various aspects of battery production, including…
Former President Trump warned of an apocalyptic future for Israel should he lose the November election, addressing a pro-Israel conference with the theme of combatting antisemitism. The Republican presidential nominee disparaged the…
Vice President Harris and media mogul Oprah Winfrey sat down for an event in Michigan to discuss issues ranging from immigration to the economy, reproductive rights and gun violence prevention. The event, which took place on a set…
The North Carolina Republican Party released a statement Thursday evening defending its gubernatorial nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, after an explosive report about him was released. “Mark Robinson has categorically denied the…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) voiced his support for Nebraska Republican’s effort to flip the state’s way of distributing Electoral College votes to a winner-take-all electoral system -- a move that would benefit former President Trump come…
Vice President Harris said that if someone were to break into her house, they would get shot while talking with Oprah Winfrey about hot-button issues during a Thursday night campaign event. “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re…
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had a message Thursday for former President Trump: Don’t try to “out-Democrat” the Democrats. Mulvaney, a contributor on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” turned to the camera and said, “Mr. President…
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff slammed Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s (R) dig at Vice President Harris for not having biological children. “Somehow because Cole and Ella [Emhoff] aren’t Kamala’s quote-unquote biological children,…
Martin Luther King III lambasted North Carolina Lt. Gov. and GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson (R) for alleged comments he made about Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2011. "I am not surprised by Mark Robinson's alleged inflammatory and…
The House task force investigating the assassination attempts against former President Trump has scheduled its first hearing for Thursday, Sept. 26. The hearing will be focused on the “Secret Service’s Reliance on State and Local Law…
A Kentucky district judge was killed in a courthouse shooting on Thursday, the state’s Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said. “Sadly, I have been informed that a district judge in Letcher County was shot and killed in his chambers this afternoon,”…
President Biden on Thursday evening is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Biden has headlined the event for the last three years, and he and…
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey hosted a virtual event in Michigan Thursday evening to support Vice President Harris's bid for the White House in the battleground state. The free, livestreamed event called “Unite for America" will be aimed at…
LinkedIn confirmed that it is using personal user data to train its artificial intelligence models after being accused of opting members in without properly notifying them.
Presented by Lockheed Martin — The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee called the Republicans’ stopgap funding fight “fanatic-on-fanatic violence,” calling out his colleagues for not being able to agree on what he said were…
House Republicans have shifted gears as they race to avoid a government shutdown, eyeing a three-month stopgap spending bill — in lieu of a six-month extension — while dropping their demand for tougher voting rules as part of the package.…
An explosive report Thursday that North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson made many offensive statements on a porn site's message board has Republicans in the state reeling and Democrats on offense. Speculation raged…
Presented by Plan B One Step — A Senate committee investigating the bankruptcy of hospital chain Steward Health Care voted on Thursday to hold the company’s CEO in contempt of Congress {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story…
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Former President Trump delivered remarks at the Israeli American Council's (IAC) 2024 national conference Thursday evening in Washington, D.C. Trump headlined the annual conference with a speech honoring the victims of the Oct. 7 attack on…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in an interview with The Hill offered his thoughts on artificial intelligence (AI) and foreign election interference — two hot-button issues that have become increasingly prevalent in the political…
A new peer-reviewed paper presents evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where many of the first cases of the disease were identified. The paper, published Thursday in the scientific journal Cell,…
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Senate moves to avert government shutdown Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday he will act to…