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Miss America 2024 winner Madison Marsh took her efforts to advocate for pancreatic cancer awareness and research to Capitol Hill on Thursday. In association with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), Marsh met with eight representatives on the Hill to push for increased funding for pancreatic cancer research within the National Institutes of Health...

President-elect Trump's decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary will put some of the former independent presidential candidate's most controversial views under deep scrutiny.  Kennedy will need to win 50 Senate votes to get confirmed, and while that's far from impossible, a series of statements he's made in...

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said she was "honored" and "eager to get to work" after President-elect Trump tapped her to be his next director of national intelligence.  She said she spoke with Trump “about the work that needs to be done, and I was grateful and honored to accept President Trump's offer to serve...

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that people should “buckle up” for President-elect Trump's second term in the White House since “we got a lot more coming your way.” "I said this morning, if you are shocked or surprised by the appointment of Pete Hegseth last night as Secretary of Defense, buckle up...

American voters are unfazed by President-elect Trump's various misdeeds, said retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist who has vocally opposed the former president. "The American voters do not care about who, as an individual, is in the White House," Luttig said Wednesday evening during a panel hosted by the Society for...

Rudy Giuliani’s attorneys on Wednesday asked to quit representing the former New York City mayor as he battles with two Georgia election workers over their efforts to collect a $146 million defamation judgment. Attorneys Kenneth Caruso and David Labkowski cited New York’s rules that allow attorneys to withdraw when they have a “fundamental disagreement” with...

Former national security adviser John Bolton said Wednesday that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.)—President-elect Trump’s nominees for director of national intelligence (DNI) and attorney general, respectively— should not appear for their Senate confirmation hearings until they are investigated by the FBI. In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Bolton said...

Democrats in both chambers of Congress have expressed concern over President-elect Trump’s decision to tap Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as the next attorney general. Trump announced on Wednesday that Gaetz, a loyal congressional ally, will be nominated to become the nation’s top law enforcement official, praising the Floridian as a “deeply gifted and...

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis announced Wednesday that she has deactivated her account on the social platform X. She announced her departure from the social media platform via Instagram, writing in the caption “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to...

{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Trump gets blowback for untested Pentagon chief pick President-elect Trump's surprise choice of Pete Hegseth, a conservative Fox News host, as Defense Secretary has enraged Democrats and left even some Republicans scratching their heads. ©...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story  Inflation ticks up Consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in October and 2.6 percent over the previous 12 months as inflation flirts with prepandemic norms, according to new federal data. © AP Photo/David Zalubowski The latest annual reading...

House lawmakers on Wednesday heard from witnesses who claim the United States government is sitting on a trove of information on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) stretching back decades. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), in his opening remarks, called on President-elect Trump to throw off the veil of secrecy on UAPs. He said the push for transparency...

The weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may be beneficial for people struggling with alcohol addiction, a study published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry said. The study examined about 228,000 people in Sweden who had alcohol use disorder and Type 2 diabetes. The people who were taking drugs like semaglutide were less likely to be hospitalized...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) will resign from Congress “effective immediately” after being nominated to serve as attorney general by President-elect Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on Wednesday. The resignation — which was announced hours after Gaetz received the attorney general nod — was described by Johnson as a way to speed up the process of filling...

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on Wednesday acknowledged he had been briefly detained at Dulles International Airport earlier this month because airport authorities thought he appeared drunk. McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, acknowledged in a statement to NewsNation, The Hill's sister network, that he had made a “mistake” in mixing the sleep...

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Wednesday said President-elect Trump’s choice of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general poses a “deadly serious challenge” to the Senate’s constitutional role of advice and consent for presidential nominees. In an interview on CNN’s “The Lead” with Jake Tapper, Coons said he would engage in the confirmation process but...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story What a GOP trifecta means for health care With Republicans in control of the House and Senate, President-elect Trump will have free rein to try to remake health care in the country. © AP Trump has already tapped controversial...

Ezra Klein, a columnist with The New York Times, said that Democrats “need to take seriously how much scarcity harms them” in a Monday post on the social platform X. In his post, the left-leaning Klein shared some of his “thoughts from the conversations I’ve been having and hearing over the last week,” including a...

Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar (D) said on Monday that he would "sit down and work together" with President-elect Trump's pick for "border czar" Tom Homan. “We've been on some shows together, we've done certain things together,” Cuellar told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill” of Homan. “We agreed on a lotta things, but we just...

Democrat George Whitesides is projected to defeat two-term Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), according to Decision Desk HQ. Whitesides, the former Virgin Galactic CEO who also served as NASA chief of staff during the Obama administration, won California’s 27th Congressional District, a northern Los Angeles-area House seat. Garcia’s defeat is notable because California’s 27th District was...

Tom Homan, President-elect Trump's pick for "border czar" in his upcoming administration, pushed back against critics of his immigration ideology. Fox Business's Elizabeth MacDonald showed recent clips featuring MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace saying Homan has “ties to Project 2025,” former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro saying he has “a cowboy attitude” and that...

President-elect Trump is expected to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to serve as secretary of State, according to multiple reports and one source familiar with the matter who spoke to The Hill. Rubio's selection to serve as Trump's top diplomat completes a drastic turnaround from 2016, when the two were fierce rivals in a GOP...

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) is projected to win reelection in his Southern California House seat, according to Decision Desk HQ. Calvert faced a challenge from Democrat Will Rollins, a former federal prosecutor, for California’s 41st Congressional District situated between Los Angeles and San Diego. The district narrowly went for Donald Trump by a point in 2020....

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Trump taps fierce UN critic to serve as envoy to it President-elect Trump’s nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations sets the stage for one of the organization’s most vocal and combative...