Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2-ranking member of the Senate GOP leadership, are staying quiet on the state Supreme Court ruling barring former President Trump from the Colorado ballot. McConnell and Thune have held back from endorsing Trump, despite his commanding lead in the polls, and at various...
A Colorado court’s decision to remove former President Trump from the ballot has threatened to upend the Republican primary race less than a month before voters begin casting ballots in other states. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Trump was disqualified from appearing on the state's 2024 GOP primary ballot under the 14th Amendment, which...
The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot is posing a political conundrum for primary rival Nikki Haley, who has seen a burst of momentum in recent weeks. The court ruled that Trump is disqualified from competing in the race under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause,” finding that he violated his...
Over half of Americans approve of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling to bar former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment, according to a YouGov poll released Wednesday. The online survey, published just a day after the ruling, found that 54 percent of respondents either strongly or somewhat approve of the...
Voter support for U.S. military aid to Israel has dropped, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University. Forty-five percent of registered voters said they supported the U.S. sending additional “military aid to Israel for their efforts in the war” with Palestinian militant group Hamas in the poll released Wednesday. This is a drop from...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) said her staff encouraged her to listen to Taylor Swift’s music in the wake of the pop star's visits to Kansas City Chiefs games to cheer on boyfriend and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “Now that @taylorswift13 has been spending more time in Kansas — thanks @tkelce! — my fearless...
France is prepared to move the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics if needed over security concerns, French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday. The Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and tensions elsewhere in the Middle East have raised concerns about security for the Olympics. The opening ceremony is planned to take place on the River...
The reelection campaign for President Biden said comparisons between former President Trump and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler are “not a coincidence” in a Wednesday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “This is not a coincidence,” read the campaign’s post, which also featured a graphic in which the campaign says the former president...
A half dozen national security-focused House Democrats sent a letter to President Biden on Tuesday demanding he double down on efforts to make an “immediate and significant shift” in Israeli military strategy. The group said the administration’s pressure campaign to temper the Israeli military strategy in Gaza has not been effective, and the lawmakers demanded...
Actor Robert De Niro dug into former President Trump, arguing President Biden "on a gurney" is still better than another four years of the former president in the Oval Office. Asked in a Rolling Stone interview if Biden is the "right guy" to take on Trump, De Niro answered, "I think that if Biden was...
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued SiriusXM on Wednesday, alleging the satellite radio company illegally traps customers in unwanted subscriptions, costing them hundreds of dollars. James argued the company maintains “deliberately long and burdensome cancellation processes” as part of a strategy to prevent people from canceling their subscriptions to the service. “Having to...
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley expressed her opposition Wednesday to the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling to disqualify former President Trump from the state ballot, arguing the decision is "truly unthinkable." "The idea that judges are going to take it upon themselves to decide who can and can't be on the ballot is truly unthinkable," Haley...
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr criticized the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to prohibit former President Trump from the state's primary ballot Wednesday, saying the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to shut down the opinion and that the move could help Trump get elected. Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general but doesn't support the former...
A conservative think tank has filed an ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Center for Renewing America’s complaint, filed Monday and addressed to the Judicial Conference Secretary, accuses the justice of appearing to “have willfully failed to disclose required information regarding her husband’s medical malpractice consulting income for over a decade.”...
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav met with Paramount CEO Bob Bakish this week amid talks of a potential merger between the two media behemoths, according to multiple reports. The meeting between the two media executives took place Tuesday in New York City, Axios first reported, noting Warner Bros. Discovery has hired bankers to explore a potential sale....
A spree of swatting incidents at nearly 200 Jewish synagogues and schools last week is believed to be a connected effort by foreign actors, according to a confidential FBI memo. "Swatting," named for the elite police groups specializing in high-risk operations, is when an individual or group of people make a misleading or false report...
The decision is not a gift to the unpopular President Biden. It is a gift to Trump’s Republican primary opponents.
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), a primary challenger to President Biden’s reelection bid, said Wednesday he thought the Colorado Supreme Court was “wrong” to block former President Trump from appearing on the state's GOP primary ballot in 2024. In a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Phillips criticized the decision by the state’s...
The Washington Post reported last week that China’s cyber army is invading U.S. services, including public utilities, communications systems, and supply chain facilities.
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Stock market surge puzzles some Fed officials The Federal Reserve’s signal that it could begin to cut interest rates next year sent the stock market surging, but several central bank officials are urging...
A Virginia state senator pledged to oppose a new stadium for the Washington Wizards and Capitals in northern Virginia, a plan which could have massive implications for the Washington economy and Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.). Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis and Youngkin announced a tentative deal to move both teams across the Potomac River...
Top Biden administration officials this week met with prominent civil rights and public health leaders in the wake of the administration’s decision to delay a ban on menthol cigarettes. The unannounced meeting was not formally on the public schedule, but it followed a similar call officials had last month with tobacco industry lobbyists — including former lawmakers...