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President Biden leads former President Trump by 10 percentage points in a hypothetical 2024 general election match-up in a survey of registered Pennsylvania voters released Thursday. The Franklin & Marshall College poll found Biden garnered support from 48 percent of voters surveyed, compared to Trump's 38 percent. Meanwhile, 13 percent of voters surveyed said they...

A federal judge on Thursday denied Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s (R) request to block a cease-and-desist order issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) demanding Blakeman repeal an executive order effectively banning transgender woman and girls from competing in female athletic events. Blakeman’s executive order, which took effect Feb. 22, defines an...

So do the departures of these senators mean the end of bipartisanship? Not at all. It may actually mark a needed break from top-down dealmaking and a chance for a different, bottom-up bipartisanship to emerge.

A federal judge denied former President Trump’s efforts to toss his Mar-a-Lago documents case Thursday, arguing that the more than 300 classified records recovered from his property could have been considered personal records. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon comes after special counsel Jack Smith urged her to promptly reject Trump’s claims...

Former Trump administration aide Alyssa Farah Griffin went after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an op-ed published in The Daily Beast, calling out the independent presidential candidate for “gaslighting and real-time pivoting" in his attempt to build his campaign. Farah Griffin tore into Kennedy for saying that President Biden is potentially a greater “threat to...

Several popular restaurant chains are celebrating National Burrito Day with deals ranging from free delivery to buy-one-get-one burritos.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) got into a spat with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo over former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on her show Wednesday. Bartiromo and Mace were discussing the possible ousting of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and a recent filing of a motion to vacate against Johnson by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene...

The bipartisan group No Labels won’t put forward a third-party presidential ticket after failing to find a candidate. “Today, No Labels is ending our effort to put forth a Unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election,” the group said in a release on Thursday. “No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot...

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story Trump legal issues draw frustration from all sides Former President Trump's legal battles — from alleged hush money payments to federal election interference — are starting to come to a head, and updates spanning two cases he faces show he's...

U.S. leverage must now be used to bring this tragedy in Gaza to an end.

On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King III was sitting at home in Atlanta with his siblings, watching the news, when a news bulletin flashed across their TV screen: Their father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., had just been assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. It was this memory King shared...

Former Trump attorney John Eastman downplayed a California judge calling for his disbarment last week, arguing that he’s still likely to succeed on appeal and revealing that he has been subpoenaed in a separate suit related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The judge recommended that Eastman, who was at the center of efforts...

President Biden on Thursday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward a cease-fire deal that would release the remaining hostages in Gaza while suggesting that U.S. policy on the war will depend on Israel’s ability to better protect civilians and humanitarian workers after a deadly attack that killed a contingent of international aid workers this...

A federal judge in Philadelphia rejected a nonprofit’s attempt to open a safe drug-injection site in the city. Safehouse, the organization that seeks to provide overdose prevention services, said the threat of prosecution by the Department of Justice over potentially violating drug laws is hindering its religious rights as a group. The organization said its...

FEMA has helped millions of Americans recover from disasters but needs to shift focus and resources to deal with the emergencies of the future.

When the federal government locks migrants up, it’s responsible for them — whether or not they’ve been formally processed, a federal judge found on Wednesday. As migrant crossings over the border between Mexico and Southern California have overwhelmed local detention facilities, thousands of people have been left to camp in the desert, often for days....

A group of House Democrats is marking the 60th anniversary of Brazil’s 1964 military coup by calling on President Biden to declassify U.S. government documents detailing atrocities and human rights abuses during the nation's more than two-decade military dictatorship.  Reps. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Susan Wild (D-Pa.) led more than a dozen colleagues in a...

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza stopped being about self-defense and became about vengeance months ago.

Most Americans say democracy is important to the U.S.’ identity, but that the nation’s democratic system is not functioning well, according to a new poll. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found 76 percent of Americans saying “a democratically elected government” is extremely or very important to the U.S.’ identity as a...

The judge overseeing former President Trump’s Georgia election interference case on Thursday rejected his attempt to toss his charges under the First Amendment. Trump and some of his co-defendants had contended their charges must be tossed because their efforts to contest the 2020 election comprised constitutionally protected “core political speech.” “Even core political speech addressing...

Comedian and cable news host Greg Gutfeld has inked a new deal with Fox News. The network announced the new deal on Thursday, boasting the host's ratings success since the launch of his eponymous weeknight program. “Greg is a true original whose trademark political and cultural commentary, humor and gifted writing has deeply connected and...

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Peter Navarro, adviser to former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court to review his plea to get out of prison, in a long-shot request filed Tuesday. It's the second time Navarro's asked the nation's highest court to set him free while he challenges his conviction. Chief Justice John Roberts shut down the first request...

President Biden spoke Thursday with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, their first conversation since an Israeli drone strike killed several humanitarian workers in Gaza. The White House said the two held a call "to discuss the latest developments in Israel and Gaza." A readout of the call was expected to follow. The conversation was expected...

Human Rights Watch said Thursday that an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Gaza City last October was an “apparent war crime,” citing no military rationale behind the attack after a months-long investigation. The Oct. 31 strike killed at least 106 civilians, including 54 children, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its report. The...