Новости за 06.03.2024

President Biden easily won Minnesota’s Democratic primary on Super Tuesday — but a protest vote push scored enough support to win 11 delegates to the national convention, according to the state party.  The Democratic-Farmer-Labor party in Minnesota announced on Wednesday that Biden won 64 of 75 available delegates in the state, while an “uncommitted” ballot...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has dismissed as “totally inappropriate” an idea being floated by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and other GOP colleagues to place a term limit on his successor. McConnell, who has served more than 17 years as Senate GOP leader, noted that colleagues have an opportunity every two years before the...

Former President Trump thanked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for his endorsement in the presidential race Wednesday, saying he looks forward to working together.  “Thank you, Mitch. I look forward to working with you and a Republican Senate MAJORITY to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.  McConnell endorsed...

2024 needs to get exciting — even if the attempt to get there is artificial and contrived.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have invited Hunter Biden and several of his former business associates to testify publicly before Congress, setting a March 20 hearing following last week's closed-door deposition of the president's son. The invitation comes after Hunter Biden spent more than six hours answering questions from GOP investigators who have been...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Wednesday the GOP is being “reduced to a cult of authoritarian personality” after former President Trump nearly swept the Super Tuesday primary states. “[I]t is disgraceful that a great political party, much less Abraham Lincoln’s party, a party of liberty and union, should be reduced to a cult of authoritarian...

Top Republicans on the House Energy and Senate Environment committees suggested in a letter to the White House on Wednesday that President Biden’s replacement of special climate envoy John Kerry with John Podesta is unlawful without Senate confirmation under a 2021 law. In the letter, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)...

Black women are increasingly concerned about the direction of the country and the rising cost of living ahead of November's election, a new poll has found.  The new poll, conducted by HIT Strategies on behalf of Higher Heights for America, a national organization dedicated to advancing Black women’s political power, found that though 76 percent...

Americans should recognize Iran’s support for murderous terror groups for what it is: a direct attack against the United States and our allies that demands a strong response.

A German man intentionally received more than 200 COVID-19 vaccinations, but researchers found that he was fine, and showed no side effects. The Lancet, a scientific journal, published a report earlier this week that looked into the 62-year-old man from Magdeburg — a town roughly 2 hours from Berlin — who deliberately received 217 of...

Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability   The Big Story The Biden-Trump matchup is already roiling the energy industry World energy markets are holding their breath over the outcome of the U.S. presidential election — with the interests of the gas import/export industry and the renewable industry at odds. © AP Photo/Julio...

Interest rates are becoming an increasingly partisan issue ahead of the 2024 election as Democrats exhort the Federal Reserve to slash rates and reduce borrowing costs while Republicans sound notes of caution about inflation sticking around. Former President Trump, who frequently pressured the politically independent Fed during his presidency to cut rates in service to...

Puerto Rico's leadership is growing nervous waiting for pending federal permits to operate two sets of power generators that are propping up the island's fragile electrical infrastructure. The territory's government is due to take control of the two generators, currently owned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a week from Friday, but Puerto Rico...

The Latino State of the Union is strong — now it’s time for the president to convince Latinos that he can make it better.

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Haley throws in the towel Nikki Haley has suspended her long-shot campaign for the GOP presidential nomination after a disappointing Super Tuesday showing. But she’s not yet endorsing Donald Trump. © Greg Nash/The Hill Haley made the announcement on Wednesday morning,...

Story at a glance Women make up the majority of unpaid caregivers for the elderly, according to a new report. The Wells Fargo report, published Tuesday, found that between 2021 and 2022 59 percent of such caregivers were female. It also found that older women make up a sizable portion of the group, with women...

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced a coalition of nine states will file a legal challenge to new regulations requiring public companies to disclose their climate-related risks and direct greenhouse gas emissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 Wednesday to approve the climate disclosure rule, which will go into effect in 2026....

A Republican-led Georgia state Senate panel gave the floor Wednesday to a defense attorney who surfaced allegations of a romance between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and a special prosecutor in former President Trump’s 2020 election interference case. Over three and a half hours, defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant described her investigation into Willis’s...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced that National Guard members will now patrol New York City subways. The governor announced a five-point subway safety plan Wednesday “to rid our subways of people [who] commit crimes and protect all New Yorkers.” The plan includes redeploying nearly 1,000 law enforcement members to conduct bag checks in...

A Texas man surrendered to authorities Wednesday over accusations he committed wire fraud by attempting to scam then-Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), actor Danny Masterson and others facing criminal liability.  According to a newly unsealed affidavit, Hector Medina Jr. sent texts and videos to Santos’s phone falsely suggesting he could get the congressman’s criminal charges tossed...

The United States has a large role to play in pressuring Israel to make productive changes to the plan, but the region’s difficult politics, Israel’s rightward shift, and the impending U.S. election all represent major barriers to the effective use of U.S. leverage.

Former NFL quarterback and Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow visited Capitol Hill Wednesday to testify about fighting human trafficking and combatting child exploitation.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) took to social media to tell former President Trump to “eat dirt” after Trump called the United States a third-world country in his Super Tuesday victory speech. “Trump just called America a ‘third world’ country.’ With all due respect (which is none), eat dirt scumbag,” Kinzinger posted on X, the...

A Houthi rebel attack on Wednesday killed at least two sailors on a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden, forcing the crew to abandon ship, according to the British Embassy in Yemen's capitol of Sanaa. The British Embassy said the deaths were "the sad and predictable result of the Houthis' reckless missile launches on...

America’s health agencies need to snap into action to help study this problem so we can better understand and treat these conditions.