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The nonpartisan group Cook Political Group shifted North Carolina’s presidential race to “toss up” from “lean Republican” as Vice President Harris narrows the gap with former President Trump. “Despite the optimism and hype, [President] Biden was never able to keep this race [in North Carolina] close. By the time he dropped out of the race...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Trump plan has $4 trillion price tag: analysis Former President Trump’s spending and tax proposals could add more than $4 trillion to the nation’s deficits over a decade, according to an analysis released Monday. © AP...

The Pentagon’s senior-most uniformed official believes the threat of a larger war in the Middle East has decreased following Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah tit for tat earlier this week that resulted in no further strikes. But Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown told Reuters Monday that even with the lowered risk of conflict, Iran and...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Fresh Russian drone, missile strikes hit Ukraine Russia launched a new round of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine early Tuesday, killing at least five people as Kyiv presses Washington to lift restrictions on its weapons....

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story House GOP takes victory lap over Mark Zuckerberg letter House Republicans are taking a victory lap after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter that Biden administration officials "repeatedly pressured" the social media company to take down content related to the...

House Republicans are taking a victory lap after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter Monday that senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” the social media company to take down content related to the COVID-19 pandemic. GOP lawmakers said Tuesday that Zuckerberg’s letter lends credence to the allegations of censorship that they have long...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Eli Lilly cutting prices for obesity, diabetes drug Eli Lilly announced Tuesday it will be cutting the prices of two of the lowest doses of its GLP-1 agonist Zepbound, an antidiabetic and antiobesity medication, allowing for patients to...

Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Interior protects Alaska lands, reversing Trump-era effort The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will protect 28 million acres of public lands in Alaska, reversing a Trump administration effort to open them up to development. © Greg Nash The...

Former President Trump is back on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seeking to expand his audience at a time when he's losing ground to his new opponent, Vice President Harris. Trump had posted 18 times between Sunday morning and Tuesday evening on a host of topics to his 90 million followers on...

{beacon} Evening Report   © LM Otero and Evan Vucci, Associated Press Florida, Texas, Virginia coming into play as polls tighten The race for the White House is growing tighter in states that fall outside of the traditional battlegrounds where Vice President Harris and former President Trump are waging the majority of their campaigns. ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers are pushing the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to increase regulation on artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes following the release of the social platform X's chatbot Grok. In a Monday letter to the FEC, Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) and a handful of other House members asked the regulatory agency to clarify whether...

State officials are warning residents of Massachusetts towns to take precautions due to a heightened risk of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus that can be carried by infected mosquitos. State officials from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said in a press release Saturday that 10 communities in the state have been raised to high...

Former President Trump on Sunday raised questions about his participation in next month's debate with Vice President Harris hosted by ABC News. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, complained about the network's panel and an interview host Jonathan Karl conducted with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on "This Week" to question why he should agree...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that the Democrats’ “sugar high” will not last amid the party’s enthusiasm for Vice President Harris. “I mean, obviously, the Democrats are on a sugar high. Everybody’s acknowledged that. And I think that that gets real after Labor Day,” Johnson said to reporters at an event for Republican Joe...

A Michigan judge overturned a decision Saturday that blocked independent candidate Cornel West from appearing on the state’s ballot. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford said in an order on Saturday that the Michigan Bureau of Elections must qualify West and his running mate for the ballot if they’ve submitted enough valid signatures....

Mitch Landrieu, national co-chair for the Harris-Walz campaign, said Sunday he is optimistic about Vice President Harris’s chances of winning Georgia in the general election this November. “We really think that we have a chance to win Georgia,” Landrieu said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” “They're going to compete there in a very...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister blasted him for his endorsement of former President Trump, saying that it is an “inexplicable effort” to tarnish their father’s memory. Kerry Kennedy, the sister of the former presidential candidate, ripped her brother for embracing Trump on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” Her brother threw his support behind Trump on...

Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the case Sunday for embracing the term “MAGA” — or “Make America Great Again” — just two days after he endorsed former President Trump’s bid for the White House. Kennedy acknowledged that the phrase — which now often refers to Trump’s staunchest supporters — often raises...

Former national security adviser H. R. McMaster suggested former President Trump needs to surround himself with qualified national security experts to prevent himself from being manipulated. McMaster appeared Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” to discuss his forthcoming memoir that will be released on Aug. 27. He said that the memoir describes his effort to protect...

As Democrats enthusiastically turn their attention to the Democratic Party’s new presidential ticket, so have House Republicans, who in recent weeks have launched a series of investigations into Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. House Republicans, who had spent much of the past 3 1/2 years investigating President Biden, are...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sidestepped a question Sunday about whether former President Trump should attend a Jan. 6 award gala that will be hosted at his golf club in New Jersey next month. The Stand in the Gap Foundation will be hosting the event, dubbed the "J6 Awards Gala," on Sept. 5 at Trump’s golf...

Republican National Committee (RNC) co-Chair Lara Trump said Sunday she thought Democrats focused too much on bashing former President Trump during last week’s convention and should have spent more time outlining their policy goals. Lara Trump, in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” drew a distinction between the two major parties’ national conventions....

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan is expected to travel Sunday to Canada where he will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reinforce the U.S.-Canada relationship on various security issues, the White House announced Sunday. Sullivan's meeting with Trudeau, along with an address to Canada's annual Cabinet retreat, will discuss national security...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday argued Vice President Harris feels "urgently" about reaching a cease-fire and hostage release deal in the Israel-Hamas war, as she and the Democratic National Convention face criticism for not featuring a Palestinian speaker at the event. "Well, I know politics is critically important, but I know Kamala, Vice President...