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The U.S. will support a global goal to cut plastic production, a change from its earlier support for leaving it up to each country. The shift in U.S. policy was first reported by Reuters. State Department spokesperson Wren Elhai confirmed to The Hill on Thursday that Reuters's reporting was accurate, but did not provide additional details. ...

Progressives in the House received a much-needed victory on Tuesday night with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) winning her primary one week after her fellow “squad” member Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) lost hers. Unlike the primaries for Bush and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), who was also ousted recently, Omar’s race did not draw the involvement of...

Business owner Rebecca Cooke won the Wisconsin Democratic primary for first-term Rep. Derrick Van Orden’s (R-Wis.) seat in the House, Decision Desk HQ has projected. Cooke, with support from moderate voices such as Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and the Blue Dog PAC, beat out Wisconsin state Rep. Katrina Shankland (D) in the 3rd Congressional District. Shankland was backed...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) hit back at those criticizing Vice President Harris for not taking interviews, saying that she'll have "plenty of time" for them in the future. Murphy was asked on CNN News Central on Tuesday whether it was becoming a “problem” that Harris has not done any interview yet. CNN’s Kate...

Wisconsin voters rejected a pair of ballot measures that would have limited the governor’s power to spend money, Decision Desk HQ has projected. The Republican-led state legislature had proposed the initiatives as part of the primaries held Tuesday. The measures aimed to put an added check on Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) and future holders...

Former NBA player Royce White won the Republican Senate primary to take on Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. White, backed by the state GOP, emerged from a crowded field of candidates jockeying to go up against the Democrat incumbent, including business executive Joe Fraser. White reportedly boasts allies in ex-Trump...

The Teamsters National Black Caucus (TNBC) endorsed Vice President Harris for the White House on Tuesday, according to a statement posted to social media. TNBC's executive board announced the endorsement in a press release posted on Facebook. It comes as the larger union has stopped short of endorsing any candidate in the presidential race yet....

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has won the primary for the Democratic nomination for her seat representing Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, almost certainly giving her two more years in the House, Decision Desk HQ projects.  Omar fended off a challenge from former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels, who nearly upset her two years ago in...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert Tuesday warning about a highly contagious respiratory illness detected especially among young children

The Democratic organization End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Tuesday over former President Trump’s interview with tech billionaire Elon Musk. Trump spoke with Musk on social media platform X, which Musk owns, on Monday night for roughly two hours after their conversation was delayed by technical difficulties. In...

Businessman Eric Hovde has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Wisconsin, setting up a matchup with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Decision Desk HQ projects. Hovde defeated two minor candidates, farmer Charles Barman and chair of College Republicans at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Rejani Raveendran, to win the primary. He will now face Baldwin...

If it seems like many people you know are suddenly getting COVID-19, you're not alone – new tests found that more than half of U.S. states are currently at the highest possible level when it comes to detection of SARS-CoV-2.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley called on Republicans to get over Vice President Harris being the Democratic nominee, saying they should “quit whining” and focus on defeating her at the ballot box. Haley told Fox News’s Bret Baier on Tuesday that she anticipated the switch from President Biden to Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee,...

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday that Republicans need to “make a serious shift” if they want to win the November election, focusing in on key demographics with whom they can gain on Vice President Harris in the polls. Haley told Fox News’s Bret Baier that former President Trump should stop discussing frivolous talking...

Neera Tanden, a top official in the Biden White House, expressed outrage over what she called a “double standard” in the media’s response to a hack of the Trump campaign after her communications were extensively covered following a 2016 hack of the Clinton campaign. Tanden, who leads the White House Domestic Policy Council, aired her...

Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against General Motors (GM), alleging the company unlawfully collected drivers’ data and sold it. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced the legal action Tuesday following an investigation launched in June into several car manufacturers after allegations of collecting drivers’ data surfaced. Paxton said the investigation revealed General Motors “engaged...

Ann Coulter said she will vote for former President Trump in November, despite thinking he is an “awful, awful person,” because of his pick of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate. The conservative media pundit has mostly sworn off Trump and urged on his rivals in the 2024 primary election, but told C-SPAN’s...

The family of late soul singer Isaac Hayes filed a suit against former President Trump’s campaign on Sunday, alleging copyright infringement over the use of his music at Trump’s rallies. The suit demands $3 million in damages for 134 uses of the song “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at rallies from 2022 through this year. The...

CNN’s Dana Bash pressed Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) over his attacks on Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-Minn.) military service record on Sunday, given questions surrounding former President Trump’s history of avoiding the Vietnam War draft. Vance and other Republicans have repeatedly questioned Walz’s service in the National Guard, falsely claiming that he decided to retire in...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) combined two popular lines of attack against Vice President Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) on Sunday, hitting the ticket for dodging interviews and spreading misleading claims about Walz’s military record. “I enjoyed sitting down with three of the major networks today to answer the tough questions any leader should answer,”...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will attempt to halt a GOP-backed plan that would cut portions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) budget, he told The Associated Press (AP) on Sunday, arguing such a move could endanger public health. The House version of the 2025 budget for the CDC and other...

Nearly 20 percent of Elon Musk’s social media posts have been political in 2024, according to a Washington Post analysis, a significant jump from previous years, as the tech billionaire increasingly involves himself in right-wing politics. The Post analysis found that 17 percent of Musk’s 2024 posts on his platform X have centered on politics,...

Vice President Harris’s campaign fired back at former President Trump after he accused her, without evidence, of using artificial intelligence to create false depictions of “massive” crowds at her rallies. “1) This is an actual photo of a 15,000-person crowd for Harris-Walz in Michigan,” the KamalaHQ account wrote on the social platform X, responding to...