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Pennsylvania incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) and Republican challenger Dave McCormick took the debate stage Thursday evening in Harrisburg, Pa., as Democrats try to prevent Republicans from flipping the Senate red. The contest in battleground Pennsylvania is seen as one of multiple closely watched races for the upper chamber. The forum will be hosted by NewsNation...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story The need for clean water after Helene With Hurricane Helene dissipated, the recovery process is underway. Experts are warning of the spread of waterborne pathogens as many residents stand to be without clean water for weeks. © AP...

Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance won the debate against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz by effectively addressing tough questions and exposing Walz's inability to provide straight answers, while Walz struggled to defend his claims and policies.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) met face to face in New York on Tuesday in the first and likely only vice-presidential debate of the election cycle, a high-stakes moment that comes a little over a month before Election Day. The two candidates clashed on a range of issues, from...

Vice presidential nominees Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) clashed Tuesday in what is likely to be the last debate of this presidential election season. Without a scheduled presidential debate to follow it up, this year’s vice presidential debate featured unusually high stakes. The debate, which lasted just under two hours,...

Former President Trump's legal team on Tuesday claimed that special counsel Jack Smith is attempting to sway the 2024 presidential election by looking to release new witness testimony and evidence related to the federal Jan. 6, 2021 case.  The GOP nominee, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case, said that more...

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) engaged in a policy-focused debate on Tuesday, during which they civilly sparred on immigration, abortion and the economy, among other issues. While there were plenty of disagreements and attacks, the two also made a point of agreeing with one another on some issues. They shook...

Republicans, including former President Donald Trump and his 2024 running mate, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, have increasingly referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as a failed "border czar." But what does that term actually mean?

A superior court judge in Delaware dismissed a computer repairman’s defamation claims in the Hunter Biden case this week.  Wilmington computer shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac claimed that he was defamed by Hunter Biden’s statements, news media reports and then-President Biden’s campaign over assertions that Hunter Biden’s computer was stolen or was part of...

CNN's Abby Phillip criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for what she described as an apparent lack of preparation for Tuesday night's vice presidential debate. "I think we shouldn't lose sight even in the [ability] that JD Vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches, and he did. He landed a lot...

Asked about American gun violence at their vice presidential debate on Tuesday, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) backed increased security at schools while Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) emphasized that solutions need to respect Second Amendment rights. Vance first brought up school security after he was asked if parents should face charges for gun crimes committed...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), pressed at the vice presidential debate on false statements he made in which he said he was present during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, said: “I’m a knucklehead at times.” Walz was pushed to reconcile public statements he made saying he was at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in...

CNN and Reuters announced Tuesday that their media organizations would launch digital paywalls. In a release, CNN said it would be “laying the first bricks in a so-called paywall” asking “some” of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access. “Staring today, we are asking users in the United States to pay a small...

Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) met for their first and only debate of the 2024 campaign season, in what could be the last major televised event in the race for the White House before November. Hosted by CBS News at its New York City broadcasting facility, Vance and Walz...

Former President Trump on Tuesday said he would veto a federal abortion ban if it made it to his desk in a potential second term after previously refusing to say whether he would do so. Trump weighed in on abortion on Truth Social as the topic was being discussed in the vice presidential debate between...

CBS cut the microphones of both Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) during Tuesday night's vice presidential debate after moderator Margaret Brennan offered a fact check of Vance's comments on immigration in Springfield, Ohio. The sparring started when Brennan clarified for debate viewers that Springfield “does have a large number of...

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said Tuesday no election offices were ruined by Helene, a storm that has plowed through multiple states, including Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee, leaving destruction in its wake. “We’ve been monitoring status reports from all 159 counties,” Raffensperger said in a Tuesday statement on the social platform X....

Tens of thousands of longshoremen at ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico went on strike shortly after midnight, the first strike by the port workers’ union in nearly 50 years. Workers walked off the job from Maine to Texas, the Associated Press and other outlets reported, after the United States Maritime Alliance...

In 1998, at the ripe age of 74, former President Jimmy Carter put some of his thoughts about getting older to paper. "The virtues of aging," Carter wrote in a book that year, "include both the blessings that come to us as we grow older and what we have to offer that might be beneficial to others." It turns out...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the Democratic nominee for vice president, said in a video Monday with the popular WeRateDogs account that while he believes “politics can sometimes bring out the worst” in people, he also believes dogs “bring out the best in us.” “So, Americans seem to be more polarized than ever these days,...

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.), representing a district in the western portion of the Tar Heel State, said Monday that the federal response following Tropical Storm Helene's destruction "has been disappointing." “The response has been disappointing,” Edwards said on NewsNation’s “The Hill” to anchor Blake Burman. On Sunday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said that...

House Committee on Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra late last week for documents on the whereabouts of thousands of migrant children in the United States.   In a letter informing Becerra of the subpoena, Green wrote he previously requested documents in August on the “vetting, screening and...

Verizon said Monday its "engineers have fully restored today's network disruption" following thousands of its users reporting outages. "Verizon engineers have fully restored today's network disruption that impacted some customers. Service has returned to normal levels," Verizon spokesperson Ilya Hemlin said in a statement. "If you are still having issues, we recommend restarting your device....

Israel has begun limited ground incursions into Lebanon for the first time, a dramatic escalation in the 11-month conflict with the Iranian-backed militia group Hezbollah and the start of a larger and potentially long fight against the group. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in posts on social media early Tuesday local time that forces...