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Welcome to The Hill’s Campaign Report, tracking all things related to the 2022 midterm elections. Starting this week, you can expect this newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday leading up to November's election. Email us tips and feedback: Max Greenwood (mgreenwood@thehill.com), Julia Manchester (jmanchester@thehill.com), and Caroline Vakil (cvakil@thehill.com).   Fall campaign sprint begins It’s the day after Labor...

The city of Baltimore has issued a boil water advisory in western sections of the city after officials detected E.coli in some water samples. In a news release on Monday, the city’s Department of Public Works (DPW) said it found the contamination during routine testing at the West Baltimore neighborhoods of Sandtown-Winchester and Harlem Park. ...

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the state’s open Senate seat, released an ad on Tuesday contrasting his statements defending legal abortion access for women with those of his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, calling the procedure “murder.” Fetterman’s video came after audio of comments Oz made about abortion during a virtual town...

Story at a glance The number of coronavirus cases, especially of newer omicron variants, are still relatively high in the U.S. The new bivalent version of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are now authorized and available. Vaccinated individuals are eligible for this new shot, at least two months after a previous shot. Nearly two years...

Mark Haugen, the Democratic candidate for North Dakota’s only open House seat, has suspended his campaign, citing pressure from his own party to make way for independent candidate and former Miss America Cara Mund. Haugen issued a brief announcement of his campaign's suspension on Twitter on Sunday, but local outlets later reported that Haugen dropped out due to...

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced she tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday and will work remotely this week as the Senate returns from its recess. Rosen said in a release she is experiencing mild symptoms, having been fully vaccinated and boosted to protect herself against severe illness. She said she will isolate and work remotely in...

Unionized educators at Seattle Public Schools (SPS) on Tuesday voted to authorize a strike, which threatens to delay the start of the school year on Wednesday if a contract agreement is not reached. The Seattle Education Association (SEA) announced on Tuesday afternoon that 95 percent of voters authorized the strike, with three-quarters of its roughly...

Hillary Clinton said in a new interview that she believes former President Trump encouraged and led a seditious conspiracy that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. “I would not be honest if I didn't say I think there was a seditious conspiracy against the government of the United States, and that's a crime,”...

Former President Trump once tried to pay a lawyer with a horse, New York Times reporter David Enrich revealed in his new book, according to The Guardian. Trump offered the lawyer, whom he owed $2 million, the deed to a stallion, Enrich reported in “Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump and the Corruption...

A longtime counselor to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is stepping down from his post, the court announced on Tuesday. Jeffrey Minear will retire as the counselor to Roberts on Sept. 30, a position he was appointed to in 2006, not long after Roberts assumed his role as chief justice. The counselor to...

White House officials on Tuesday reiterated calls for new COVID-19 response funding to be approved by Congress as the fall vaccination campaign begins, with officials warning that there are currently not enough resources to respond should a new surge emerge. White House officials like COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha and Health and Human Services Secretary...

Academy Award-winning actor Jennifer Lawrence said that she doesn't deal with Americans who “aren’t political,” because the world is in “too dire” a state not to get involved. “I’ve tried to get over it and I really can’t. I can’t. I’m sorry I’m just unleashing, but I can’t f--- with people who aren’t political anymore,” the outspoken...

Former President Trump and his allies embraced the appointment of a special master to review materials taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month during an FBI search. The former president’s defenders hailed the decision from Judge Aileen Cannon – a Trump appointee – as a win for transparency and the legal process. The decision will...

Even veteran political reporters admit they’ve never seen politics as ugly as it is today. But, still, every once in a while, we get a big belly laugh. Like last week, after President Biden remarked that the “extreme MAGA philosophy” of Donald Trump and his followers is “like semi-fascism.” In response, Republicans exploded. How...

Kim Kardashian says the United States is regressing following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. “I’m studying civil procedure and criminal procedure right now, so just understanding the process of how Roe v. Wade got overturned — it’s fascinating and scary,” the reality TV star, who’s studying to be a lawyer, told Interview...

A glacier that could cause a multi-foot sea level increase if it melted is disappearing at about twice the previously observed rate, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.  Although the findings indicate the rate of retreat has slowed in recent years, researchers also saw indications that past a certain point the recession...

CNN has hired a former top aide to the New York Police Department (NYPD) as its chief law enforcement analyst, the company announced on Tuesday. John Miller, a leading expert on intelligence and national security matters, begins this week as CNN's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. Miller served as the NYPD's deputy commissioner of...

University endowments aim to make 7.0 percent to 7.5 percent on their endowment funds. Could they make that much loaning to students?

The nation’s second largest public school district announced on Tuesday it was targeted in a recent cyber attack. Los Angeles Unified School District said officials detected unusual activity over the weekend, which it said was “likely criminal” ransomware, after announcing the previous day that the district’s email system and some other technological services were disrupted....

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editorial board said that Pennsylvania Senate Republican nominee Mehmet Oz has raised “legitimate concerns” about his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, in an editorial published Tuesday.  The editorial comes a week after Fetterman announced that he would not participate in a debate with Oz during the first week of September, citing...

Nothing says congressional unity like a harsh, age-related reality check involving “The Golden Girls.” Senators on both sides of the aisle are coming together after a writer noted a potentially mortifying factoid about the classic 1980s series. “All of the actors from ‘Friends’ are now older than the youngest ‘Golden Girl’ was in that show’s...

The Biden administration on Monday unveiled its plan for bolstering domestic chip production in the U.S. by using the $50 billion in funding from the CHIPS and Science Act passed this summer. The administration will use the majority of the funding, around $28 billion, to establish domestic production of leading edge logic and memory chips...

Senate Democrats’ campaign arm on Tuesday released its first general election television ad targeting Adam Laxalt in Nevada, slamming the Republican Senate nominee for his abortion stance. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said the ad, titled “Historic,” is part of its $8.4 million ad reservation in Nevada this fall. “Adam Laxalt praised the Supreme...

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) is recovering from hip replacement surgery and will miss votes this week, his office said, as the Senate reconvenes on Capitol Hill after a monthlong recess. “I’ll be closely monitoring votes during my absence and look forward to rejoining my colleagues in Congress next week,” Burr said in a statement. The...

The Senate is set to reconvene Tuesday afternoon after a monthlong recess, officially kicking off the home stretch to the November midterm elections. The upper chamber broke for the August recess after Democrats passed their multibillion-dollar climate, taxes and health care bill, which crossed the finish line with the help of Vice President Harris’s tie-breaking...