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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said it would be "politically beyond stupid" to allow a shutdown seven weeks before Election Day.

“These women are young. Either barely legal, or barely illegal,” the federal source said.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said it would be "politically beyond stupid" to allow a shutdown seven weeks before Election Day.

Tensions rose sharply after Israel’s defense minister announced a “new phase” of the war and an apparent Israeli attack set off explosions in electronic devices in Lebanon.

The United States healthcare system was deemed the worst overall in a new analysis of 10 similar nations by a leading health research nonprofit. "Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Healthy System," published by The Commonwealth Fund Thursday, looked at 70 healthcare systems in 10 wealthy nations including Australia, Canada, the United...

President Joe Biden will speak Thursday at the Economic Club in Washington.

Kamala Harris holds an edge over Donald Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. But new surveys found that the race remains a tossup nationally.

The back-to-back attacks have hiked fears that the simmering conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could escalate into all-out war.

President Biden is set to give remarks at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on Thursday, during which he will give a “declaration of progress” a day after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates. White House chief of staff Jeff Zients previewed that Biden’s speech is “not meant to be a declaration of victory, it’s meant...

Democrats in New Hampshire see their best opportunity in years to flip the governor’s mansion in what is shaping up to be among the most competitive races for a state executive position this cycle. Outgoing Gov. Chris Sununu (R) decided against seeking another term this year after holding the position for eight years. He has...

The Democratic National Committee has launched a new voter registration campaign at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutes (HSIs) in battleground states, The Hill has exclusively learned. The campaign includes kiosk ads and “I Will Vote” posters across campuses in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. The ads...

Young Russians are embracing Kremlin propaganda, reshaping the Ukraine war narrative with ultranationalist views and seeing themselves as patriotic truth defenders.

Young Russians are embracing Kremlin propaganda, reshaping the Ukraine war narrative with ultranationalist views and seeing themselves as patriotic truth defenders.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) funding gamble didn’t pay off. A diverse group of House Republicans on Wednesday torpedoed Johnson’s proposal for a six-month government funding bill, dealing an embarrassing blow to the GOP leader and derailing his strategy to avoid a shutdown on Sept. 30. Fourteen Republicans, including Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (Ala.)...

Israel’s defense minister says ‘the center of gravity is moving north,’ after dozens killed and thousands injured in device blasts in Lebanon

Walkie-talkies and solar equipment exploded in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in an apparent second wave of attacks.

The Ohio city’s mayor has said he’d prefer Trump not to visit after his remarks about immigrants eating pets.

“Israeli senior political and military leaders have been very clear in this time that they see the security situation along their northern border as unsustainable,” and expert told The Post.

We aren’t there yet in the U.S., but there are several warning signs that we are heading in the wrong direction.

Catastrophists share a belief that we’re at a crossroads in American democracy. The Casuals see the landscape quite differently.

Students of all ages still haven’t made up the ground they lost during the pandemic.

Twenty women accused Fayed of sexual assault, five of whom said he raped them while they worked at Harrods, the high-end London store he owned. He died in 2023.

Vice President Harris will join media mogul Oprah Winfrey for a livestream event Thursday night, which is expected to highlight grassroot support for the Democratic presidential nominee. The event will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT, when the vice president is in Farmington Hills, Mich. Harris is set to travel to the Great...

The group White Dudes for Harris rolled out a new $10 million ad campaign on Thursday, with the first ad of the effort targeting white men in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  The over one-minute-long spot addresses former President Trump’s grip on the white male vote but works to appeal to voters in the bloc who are disillusioned...

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Local unions within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are putting their support behind Vice President Harris in November, despite the wider union's decision to withhold a presidential endorsement this year. “Michigan Teamsters President Kevin Moore and the Executive Board on behalf of 245,000 active and retired Teamsters enthusiastically endorse the Harris-Walz campaign,” Kevin D. Moore,...

The Harris economic agenda targets the middle class almost exclusively.

The Republican vice presidential nominee continues to rail against Haitian migrants living in Ohio, though many have Temporary Protected Status, as the GOP escalates its hardline immigration stance.

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr and other officials are slated to testify about Biden administration policies Thursday morning before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The hearing comes as scrutiny swirls around telecom companies that have transmitted calls using artificial intelligence to influence the 2024 presidential election. Last month a telecommunications firm was fined $1...

Concern over possible full-scale Israel-Hezbollah war grows as IDF moves forces to Lebanon border after exploding pager attack.

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SPOTTED: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. getting a pop art makeover, as artist Charles Fazzino unveiled his latest work that will be showcased at a state-of-the-art facility from the White House Historical Association. "The White House is really the center of the world," Fazzino told ITK before dramatically revealing his artwork on Wednesday before a crowd of...

A majority of Black voters in battleground states support Vice President Harris over former President Trump, according to new polling. A new Howard Initiative on Public Opinion survey found that 78 percent of registered Black voters across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin said they would vote for Harris over Trump if the election...

Concern over a possible full-scale Israel-Hezbollah war grows as IDF forces move to the Lebanon border after the exploding pager attack.

Train more individuals in election law and one will have more election controversies and lawsuits.

Thirty-two Hezbollah members were killed in device blasts, the group said.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he will act later in the day to advance a bipartisan government funding bill after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) failed to pass a partisan six-month funding measure that was tied to voter registration reform. Schumer said the Senate now may have to act first to avoid...

Republican members of Congress from Nebraska in a Wednesday letter called on their state to apportion all of its five electoral votes to the popular vote winner of the presidential election in the state. Nebraska, unlike most states, splits its five votes. Two of the votes go to the winner of the popular vote in...

We have a responsibility to ensure that all medical students have an equal opportunity to contribute to our healthcare system.

Breitbart’s own singer/songwriter Jon Kahn’s anthem”FIGHTER” has taken the music world by storm, managing, within just 24 hours of its release, to claim the #1 spot on iTunes all genres and pop charts, beating out Grammy Award-winning pop superstars like The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, and Billie Eilish and country music stars Shaboozey, Jelly Roll, and Luke Combs.

On Wednesday, Boeing’s CEO announced that the company will begin furloughing “a large number” of employees to limit spending during the strike by union machinists that began just a week ago.

The leader of Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for this week’s deadly attacks on the group’s communications devices, which he called a “severe blow” that crossed a “red line.”

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that Israel's deadly pager and handheld radio attacks that targeted his fighters across Lebanon amounted to a "declaration of war," calling it a "major aggression" against his people. In a highly anticipated speech, Nasrallah said this week's attacks were a genocide and a war crime against Lebanon in addition...

With the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as close as it is, the small percentage of undecided voters could have a big impact on the outcome.

Donald Trump has surprised one of his youngest voters with the birthday gift of a lifetime.

The billionaire philanthropist talks about how the fight for global health lost steam — and how to get it back.

The threat of a wider war is looming after 37 people were killed when wireless devices used by Hezbollah members detonated.

To the surprise of many labor activists and leftists, Joe Biden’s National Labor Relations Board has boosted bottom-up unionism since 2020 — a fact that has key strategic implications for union revitalization efforts.

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Three firefighters died battling the blazes, Portugal’s prime minister said, adding the country was going through “difficult days.”

The plane — most of it, at least — returned to Myrtle Beach International Airport less than 10 minutes after takeoff.

The Senate passed an emergency spending bill on Thursday to provide billions of dollars in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs, as officials warn that benefit payments for veterans are at risk of being disrupted next month absent congressional action. The Senate passed the bill with a voice vote with bipartisan support on Thursday...

Hezbollah leader hints at retaliation after unprecedented attacks. Israel says goal is to ensure citizens can return to homes in northern Israel

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the White House next week and meet with both President Biden and Vice President Harris to discuss the state of the war against Russia. Zelensky will be at the White House on Thursday, Sept. 26, when White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said he would meet separately with Biden...

Ten Republican governors this week announced a coalition aimed at reducing regulations around energy production and opposing renewable energy mandates. The organization, the Governors Coalition for Energy Choice, said in a statement that the coalition aims to “ensure continued energy choice, minimize permitting and other regulatory barriers, limit expensive energy mandates, focus on affordability and...

Democrats understood from the moment Harris took over the ticket that she was the one thing standing between us and a second Trump presidency. Quibbles about this or that vanished.

Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the explosions that killed dozens. Israeli planes flew over Beirut as he spoke, in an apparent show of might.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday she believes the U.S. economy is making the “soft landing” that she predicted two years ago, when inflation soared after the pandemic. In a live interview during The Atlantic Festival 2024, journalist Ron Brownstein recalled their interview in 2022, when, he said, “there was a great deal of...

An NYPD raid shut down a seedy brothel in Queens late Wednesday, taking a bite out of a neighborhood overrun by lawless migrants and hookers in recent months.

No, Trump-Style Tariffs Do Not Grow the Economy

The start of fall may be just days away, but the weather forecast in many places isn't matching the calendar.

More details are emerging regarding the suspect in the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, along with a new mugshot where the suspect can be seen slightly smirking.

The Ohio city had to close schools and govt. buildings after Donald Trump and JD Vance made false claims about Haitian immigrants.

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans. Proponents of the lab leak theory are dubious.

The rigging of pagers and other electronics that has wounded over 3,000 people in Lebanon is neither “precise” nor “sophisticated.” It is barbaric — and it is terrorism.

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday called the Republicans’ stopgap funding fight “fanatic-on-fanatic violence,” calling out his colleagues for not being able to agree on what he said were two extreme views. “There's nothing funny about it, you know, and it is serious business, but it just amuses me that,...

The 20 accusers include five women who said he assaulted them while they worked at Harrods, the high-end London store he owned. He died in 2023.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will oppose any federal funding bill that includes conservative policy riders pushed by former President Trump. “Donald Trump has ordered extreme MAGA Republicans in the House to shut the government down unless they can jam parts of Trump’s Project 2025 agenda down the throats of...

Vice President Harris's is seeking an elusive Trump-loving demographic.

From Iranian hacking to Russian influence campaigns, the 2024 presidential campaign is encountering a spate of efforts by foreign adversaries to weaken faith in the outcome and potentially alter the results.

Less than half of likely 2024 presidential election voters have a favorable view of pop superstar Taylor Swift after her endorsement of Vice President Harris, according to a New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena College poll that was released on Thursday. The poll, conducted following Swift’s endorsement of Harris on Sept. 10, found that...

Kellyanne Conway has suggested that former President Trump does not regret picking Sen. JD Vance as his running mate and would make the same decision today if given the opportunity.

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story Harris vs. Trump: What the polls are saying The presidential election between Vice President Harris and former President Trump is in its final stretch. The candidates aren’t expected to hold another debate, and they are neck and neck in the...

The Senate is moving forward with plans to pass its own continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.

A Senate committee approved civil and criminal contempt resolutions against Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre who defied a Senate subpoena.

The vice president is on track to grant the fewest interviews of any major party’s presidential nominee ever — and it’s not just because she entered the race historically late.

Scientific advances helped avert 4.1 million deaths from cancer in the 30 years between 1991 and 2021 according to a new report, but the disease continues to be a public health challenge.  The report, released Wednesday by the American Association for Cancer Research, showed the cancer death rate dropped by 33 percent between 1991 and...

The former president believes his own hype—now more than ever.

Heated Political Rhetoric Is Usually Not Fatal

The S&P 500 rose 1.7 percent on Thursday, rallying a day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on Thursday met with the families of Americans being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas, the Harris campaign said. Walz listened to the stories of the families and offered his support, the campaign said. The governor emphasized he and Vice President Harris would do everything possible to secure their...

Lower borrowing costs will benefit the entire housing market, not just those applying for a mortgage right now.

Mark Robinson, GOP nominee for NC governor, denies making dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

The doctor tasked with running the Big Apple’s pandemic response confessed in secretly-recorded conversations to taking drugs, partying during pandemic.

Michelle Obama, the former first lady and wife of former Democrat President Barack Obama, was spotted on Tuesday at a Costco in Livermore marketing her brand-new beverage brand.

Florida health officials told physicians Thursday that abortion is permitted “at any stage in pregnancy” to save the life and health of the mother, and regulatory action will be taken against any providers who don’t offer that care. In a notice to providers, the Florida Department of Health and the Agency for Health Care Administration...

Lebanon blamed Israel for attacks on Hezbollah's devices killed 37 and wounded around 3,000, wreaking bloody havoc on the militant group.

The doctor tasked with running the Big Apple’s pandemic response confessed in secretly-recorded conversations to taking drugs, partying during pandemic.

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The attacks offer a rare window into the inner-workings of Hezbollah — an organization that is notoriously secretive and deeply embedded in Lebanese society.

Hezbollah’s leader called two days of deadly blasts in Lebanon this week an “act of war” by Israel. Today, on “Post Reports,” what we know about how the attacks unfolded – and whether they could escalate to all-out war.

The Biden administration is still pushing talks, but it is no longer expecting a breakthrough.

Sports Brand Nike announced on Thursday, that CEO John Donahoe will retire after more than five years of being in charge of the company as the brand has struggled recently with sales and other competition.

The Biden administration is still pushing talks, but it is no longer expecting a breakthrough.

Presented by Plan B One Step — A Senate committee investigating the bankruptcy of hospital chain Steward Health Care voted on Thursday to hold the company’s CEO in contempt of Congress {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Senate panel advances contempt measures against Steward CEO A committee investigating the bankruptcy of hospital...

The Uncommitted National Movement announces it will not endorse Vice President Harris but does not want supporters to vote for former President Donald Trump, and it discourages third-party votes.

House Republicans have shifted gears as they race to avoid a government shutdown, eyeing a three-month stopgap spending bill — in lieu of a six-month extension — while dropping their demand for tougher voting rules as part of the package.  Top appropriators have already launched bipartisan talks in both chambers, and senior lawmakers said they...

BUT HE'S NOT DROPPING OUT!

LinkedIn confirmed that it is using personal user data to train its artificial intelligence models after being accused of opting members in without properly notifying them.

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani becomes the first player in major league history to achieve 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season.

Shohei Ohtani is the first MLB player to record 50 homers and 50 steals in the same season.

Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary number of people.

President Biden on Thursday evening is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Biden has headlined the event for the last three years, and he and First Lady Jill Biden will also host a Hispanic Heritage Month reception at the White House. The event is scheduled to begin...

More than 85 percent of migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border are released into the U.S. interior, a report from the House Homeland Security Committee details. At the same time, the report accuses President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of seeking to slash federal detention space.

The absence of a full-blown war in Lebanon has been touted as a core U.S. achievement, but now Washington’s grip on the crisis appears more tenuous than ever.

“I think it’s hypocrisy or jealousy maybe,” photographer Alexandre Alé de Basseville said of Melania Trump’s detractors.

The House task force investigating the assassination attempt against former President Trump has scheduled its first hearing for Thursday, Sept. 26. The hearing will be focused on the “Secret Service’s Reliance on State and Local Law Enforcement” at Trump’s July rally in Bulter, Pa., where a gunman opened fire. The former president was grazed by...

More than 85 percent of migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border are released into the U.S. interior, a report from the House Homeland Security Committee details. At the same time, the report accuses President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of seeking to slash federal detention space.

Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had a message Thursday for former President Trump: Don’t try to “out-Democrat” the Democrats. Mulvaney, a contributor on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” turned to the camera and said, “Mr. President, please stop talking to the people or taking advice from the people, who tell you to out-Democrat the...

Vice President Harris said that if someone were to break into her house, they would get shot while talking with Oprah Winfrey about hot-button issues during a Thursday night campaign event. “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot,” she said, laughing. “I probably should not have said that. My staff will deal with...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) voiced his support for Nebraska Republican’s effort to flip the state’s way of distributing Electoral College votes to a winner-take-all electoral system -- a move that would benefit former President Trump come November.  "I hope they will allow winner-take-all," Graham told CBS News on Thursday. "Trump's going to win the state...

The North Carolina Republican Party released a statement Thursday evening defending its gubernatorial nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, after an explosive report about him was released. “Mark Robinson has categorically denied the allegations made by CNN but that won’t stop the Left from trying to demonize him via personal attacks,” NCGOP said on X. “The...

The GOP presidential nominee also said, “If we don’t win, I believe Israel will be eradicated.”

Former President Trump warned of an apocalyptic future for Israel should he lose the November election, addressing a pro-Israel conference with the theme of combatting antisemitism. The Republican presidential nominee disparaged the estimated 60 percent of American Jews as "fools" who should have their "head examined" if they vote for the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice...

Moscow redirected oil sales, but forging new routes for other commodities proves difficult amid high costs and U.S. sanctions.

New York Magazine’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi was placed on leave after she had an alleged romantic relationship with former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr while covering his campaign.

Vice President Kamala Harris told Oprah Winfrey Thursday that any intruder who breaks into her home is "getting shot" in what appeared to be a joke.