Новости за 17.04.2024

The White House on Wednesday praised the Senate for dismissing two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, reiterating its stance that the effort was baseless. “Once and for all, the Senate has rightly voted down this baseless impeachment that even conservative legal scholars said was unconstitutional,” said Ian Sams, White House spokesperson...

The Senate voted Wednesday to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, shutting down the possibility of a lengthy Senate trial, which Republicans had demanded to bring attention to the Biden administration’s record on immigration and border security. It marked the first time in 225 years the Senate voted to immediately...

United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Wednesday that Israel has decided to respond to the attacks Iran launched against Israel over the weekend. Cameron's remarks come as the foreign secretary traveled to Israel on Wednesday, just days after Iran launched a missile and drone attack on the U.S. ally. Cameron told reporters he traveled...

If former President Trump chooses to testify in his hush money trial, New York prosecutors want to cross-examine him about his various civil lawsuits. In court papers signed last month but not made public until Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office said it would seek to question Trump about 13 court rulings against...

Arizona House Republicans blocked an attempt Wednesday to repeal the state’s 1864 near-total abortion ban, the second time in as many weeks Democrats were unable to get a vote on their repeal bill. The move came despite pressure from prominent conservatives including former President Trump and a top Trump ally, Senate hopeful Kari Lake, who...

Attorneys for a Texas man who sued the state for property damage criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Tuesday, saying Paxton’s claims of victory in a Supreme Court decision on the case are false. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Richie DeVillier can sue Texas under state law for property damage after his...

The ride-hailing company released a report Wednesday detailing the most common – and most unusual – riders left behind in vehicles.

Two important figures in former President Trump’s legal struggles have made it onto this year’s Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people. Special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing both Trump’s case related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his case involving mishandled classified documents, and advice columnist E. Jean...

This is as good a time as any for the press to take a hard look at how they cover Donald Trump in 2024.

The Biden administration is reimposing sanctions on Venezuelan oil, it announced Wednesday. Officials said Venezuela has not progressed enough toward free and fair elections, and as a result, the administration is reimposing the sanctions that were lifted in October.  Companies will have 45 days to wind down their transactions with the nation’s oil and gas...

The Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to sustain a point-of-order objection raised by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), effectively dismissing the first article of impeachment approved by the House accusing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of willfully refusing to comply with the law. Schumer declared that the charge was unconstitutional because the House...

President Biden and former President Trump are neck and neck in Wisconsin, new polling shows.  A Marquette Law School Poll survey of Wisconsin voters found Trump with 51 percent support among surveyed voters to Biden’s 49 percent. That 2-point split is within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points —...

A trio of Democratic senators want Novo Nordisk to explain why it discontinued one of its long-acting insulin products after it announced a steep price cut on the medication. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Raphael Warnock (Ga.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) wrote to Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen and head of North American operations Doug...

The stepson of a former "Real Housewives of New Jersey" (RHONJ) cast member was arrested Wednesday on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, according to court documents. Tyler Campanella, the stepson of former RHONJ cast member Sigalit "Siggy" Flicker, is facing five misdemeanors for his alleged participation in the Capitol riots on...

President Biden argued that it never occurred to former President Trump to take a competitive stance against China, while rolling out a slew of actions Wednesday intended to protect the U.S. steel industry from Chinese exports. Biden was in Pittsburgh, Pa., at the United Steelworkers headquarters touting the new actions, which involves him calling on the...

A quartet of Columbia University officials largely avoided a viral breakout moment in a Wednesday House hearing on antisemitism, but still struggled in multiple areas when they were peppered with questions from Republican lawmakers.   The viral question that last year stumped the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute...

Americans' confidence in the U.S. military dipped last year, losing its top spot among the other Group of Seven (G7) countries, according to a new Gallup poll. American's confidence in the U.S. military dipped to 81 percent in 2023, down 5 points from 2022, when confidence stood at 86 percent. That's according to a new...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined a resolution from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) that aims to overturn a new rule on climate disclosures approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month. Manchin, the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined with 32 Republican senators to co-sponsor the resolution. The SEC finalized...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act that established a budget process unique to the legislative branch. The act created the House and Senate Budget committees and the Congressional Budget Office, along with procedures the president must follow when implementing congressional appropriations. Fifty years later, the Bipartisan Policy...

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story Trump on trial: What we know so far Jury selection is underway in former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan, marking the first-ever criminal trial of any American president. © Angela Weiss/Pool/AFP The proceedings kicked off on Monday as...

The Biden campaign on Wednesday jabbed at former President Trump's ability to attract donors after an analysis of federal data showed the Trump campaign is lagging behind its 2020 pace in terms of money and individual donors. "Donald Trump simply cannot keep up with Joe Biden: He’s too lazy to campaign, too toxic to generate...

The conservative effort to put an abortion ban on the ballot in Nebraska has been bankrolled entirely to date by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.). Ricketts donated $500,000 in cash on March 26 to the group Protect Women and Children, according to its campaign finance report filed with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission. The group...

President Biden and former President Trump are now neck and neck, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ's (DDHQ) latest average of polls, released Wednesday. The two rivals are tied at 45.1 percent, based on DDHQ's average of 658 polls pitting the two against each other in a likely 2024 match-up. Prior to Wednesday, Trump’s lead...

A trade group representing the adult film industry is asking the Supreme Court to pause a Texas law that requires adult sites to verify the ages of their users, claiming that it violates the sites’ First Amendment rights. Friday’s filing requests the Supreme Court halt the law’s enforcement while justices consider whether to take on...

Senators are set for a showdown Wednesday over whether to hold a trial on the two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Democrats are expected to move to immediately dismiss the charges, while Republicans have pushed for a full trial. The House sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate Tuesday —...