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Vice President Harris’s campaign hit Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who former President Trump picked to be his running mate last month, with a fiery Happy Birthday message online. “At 78 and 40, Donald Trump and his sidekick, the most unpopular VP pick in American history, are running on an agenda to drag our country backwards,...

Conservative pundit George Conway criticized former President Trump for seemingly refusing to debate Vice President Harris, calling him a “wuss.” Conway joined MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” Friday evening to discuss the future of the general election after a whirlwind few weeks. He listened to a recent clip of Trump, where the GOP nominee...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked a plea deal Friday that would have taken the death penalty off the table for three prisoners accused of helping to plot the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Austin said in a news release that he believes that given the significance of the case, responsibility on what happens to the...

United Auto Workers (UAW) Shawn Fain slammed former President Trump on Friday, saying he's beholden to billionaires and has “never supported working-class people.” In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Fain highlighted the union’s decision to endorse Vice President Harris and the pivotal role UAW has played in the presidential campaign over the last...

Geraldo Rivera joins "NewsNation Now" to discuss Trump's comments about Harris' race at a conference for Black journalists.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a fighter jet squadron, Navy ships and air defenses to the Middle East amid heightened regional tensions due to Israeli attacks in Iran and Lebanon.  “The Department of Defense continues to take steps to mitigate the possibility of regional escalation by Iran or Iran’s partners and proxies,” deputy Pentagon...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced Friday that the special election to fill the vacant seat left by the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee will be held Nov. 5, the same day as the general election. Candidates who wish to have their name placed on the special election ballot must file their applications with Texas...

Harvard University appointed Alan Garber to serve as the 31st president through the 2026-27 academic year Friday, seven months after controversies led the previous leader to step down. Garber became interim president of the university earlier this year, after former President Claudine Gay resigned following scandals related to antisemitism on campus and alleged plagiarism. "Alan...

Turkey’s communications authority blocked access to Instagram on Friday, another instance of the country tightening its grip on certain websites and social media. Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority, which regulates the internet, announced Friday that it had restricted access to the site, The Associated Press reported. Local media said Instagram was now blocked as...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story US stock markets plunge U.S. stock markets took a dive on Friday amid fears the economy could be slowing down faster than analysts had been thinking after a weaker-than-expected jobs report. © Getty Images The Dow...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Secret Service says not watching roof was mistake; will fly drones in future Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe repeated that there were failures on July 13, when Thomas Crooks fired at former President Trump at...

Among the names on Vice President Harris’s running mate shortlist, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) were ranked the highest by Democratic voters, a new survey found. The survey, released Friday by YouGov, found that Buttigieg and Kelly were the most popular picks to join Harris's bid for the White House. Buttigieg...

Generation X and millennials face a higher risk of getting certain types of cancer when compared to earlier generations, according to a large new study published Wednesday. In the study, published in the Lancet Public Health journal, researchers from the American Cancer Society (ACS) studied 34 of the most common cancers. They found that cancer...

Senate conservatives are showing early resistance to expediting legislation to address a roughly $3 billion budget shortfall for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), as officials warn millions of veterans’ benefits are at risk in the coming weeks. Some senators had been hopeful of passing the bipartisan bill this week amid growing concern over the...

Online trackers watching prisoner movements in Russia have sounded the alarm over a possible prisoner swap with the West, with the whereabouts of multiple high-profile prisoners unknown, including those of American prisoner Paul Whelan. At least seven notable Russian dissidents have been moved unexpectedly in recent days in addition to Whelan and Russian-British prisoner Vladimir...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said former President Trump's attack on Vice President Harris's heritage at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention on Wednesday revealed Trump to be a "desperate, scared old man." “I think those are the comments of a desperate, scared old man, who, over the last week especially, has been having...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP nominee for vice president, defended his running mate’s attacks Wednesday on Vice President Harris’s biracial heritage, calling the reaction “hysterical” and comparing Harris to a “chameleon.” Vance was asked by reporters traveling aboard his campaign plane about former President Trump’s comments earlier in the day in which he mocked...

Former President Trump returned Wednesday to Pennsylvania for the first time since he was shot at a rally outside of Pittsburgh earlier in the month, where he sought to characterize Vice President Harris as a “phony” and welcomed a challenge to compare their records. Trump repeatedly attacked Harris, who is the likely Democratic nominee after...

Vice President Harris on Wednesday responded directly to former President Trump after he mocked her heritage earlier in the day, saying the American people deserve better than the former president. Trump said that Harris was “always of Indian heritage” and then “happened to turn Black” during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention. “It was...

Former Arizona attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh has won the Republican nomination for the House seat representing the state’s 8th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. Hamadeh defeated a crowded field that included his main opponent, former Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters, to win the primary to succeed retiring Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.),...

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that death by firing squad and other forms of execution commonly held to be cruel and unusual are legal in the state if the inmate requests the method of execution. The ruling comes after the state passed a law in 2021 allowing executions by firing squad and electrocution...

Vice President Harris halved former President Trump’s 2024 lead in a newly relaunched national polling average that replaces President Biden with Harris as Trump’s likely Democratic opponent. The first iteration of Cook Political Report’s (CPR) new average, relaunched on Wednesday, shows Trump leading Harris by 1.3 points — 47.5 percent support to 46.2 percent. In the...