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Former President Donald Trump unveiled his plan for cryptocurrency while making history as the first major party candidate to address the annual cryptocurrency conference. During his Saturday speech, he also attacked Democrats for trying to “obliterate” cryptocurrencies. “I am proud to be the first American president to address a Bitcoin event anywhere in the world,”...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) has risen to near the top of the list of possible running mates as Vice President Harris considers who she wants to run alongside her. Kelly has been sent vetting materials as one of a handful of Democrats under consideration for the role. A veteran and former astronaut, Kelly brings a...

Former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who were centers of controversy during the Trump-Russia investigation, have reached settlements with their former employer over violations of their privacy rights. The government is paying Strzok $1.2 million and Page $800,000 in settlements. Strzok was a senior FBI counterintelligence agent who helped oversee the agency’s investigation...

This week’s Sunday news shows will most likely focus on the rise of Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign. Harris became the likely Democratic presidential nominee in the wake of President Biden dropping out of the 2024 race last week and endorsing her. Following the president ending his reelection campaign, Harris has quickly snapped up key...

The Wall Street Journal editorial board slammed Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance over previous comments he made about “childless cat ladies.” “The comment is the sort of smart-aleck crack that gets laughs in certain right-wing male precincts,” the Journal editorial board said in a new opinion piece. “But it doesn’t play well with the...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday blasted the opening ceremonies of the Olympics for mocking the Last Supper with a recreation that featured performers in drag. "Last night’s mockery of the Last Supper was shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world who watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games," Johnson wrote in...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a podcast released Saturday that attacks aimed at Vice President Harris claiming she was hired due to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are “a bad look for Republicans.” Asked about the attacks by The New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro said on the outlet’s “The Interview” podcast, Buttigieg argued...

As Republicans aim to inject more religion into public schools, the landscape of private schooling could change. Red states are adding chaplains to district health programs, requiring the Ten Commandments in every classroom and mandating that the Bible be taught in lesson plans — increasingly offering a Christian education at a public school price....

Not only are they idiotic, but they will also be turned into cannon fodder by Democrats and many in the media to attack former President Trump for guilt by association.  

Parents who thought they were doing everything right in sharing images of their kids are about to find out just how wrong they were.  

The race to define Vice President Kamala Harris is on, with roughly 100 days left until the presidential election. Republicans are pounding their message hard, the overarching accusation being that Harris is “dangerously liberal.” They have massively outspent their Democratic counterparts in the days since President Biden announced he is dropping his reelection bid. Trump...

The FBI has confirmed that former President Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet in an assassination attempt after the agency’s director, Christopher Wray, questioned what hit his ear earlier this week. “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the...

The creator of the popular HBO political comedy series “Veep” said the current political reality is "madder" than that portrayed in the comedy series in an opinion piece published Friday in The New York Times. “What’s going on? The stuff happening out there right now is madder than ‘Veep’ and deadly serious,” Armando Iannucci said...

Former President Trump said Friday he removed “the last bandage off of my ear” in the wake of a recent assassination attempt against him in which one of his ears was injured. “As I think you can see, I’ve recovered well and, in fact, just took off the last bandage off of my ear,” Trump...

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A new advertisement for former President Trump’s campaign tries to paint Vice President Harris as the face of “Bidenomics.” The nearly minute-long ad, which Trump posted on his Truth Social account Friday, features clips of Harris mentioning “Bidenomics” and ends with text stating “HARRIS OWNS ‘BIDENOMICS’ SHE MADE IT HAPPEN.” “‘KAMALA HARRIS OWNS BIDENOMICS,’” Trump...

Since 2015, the number of Americans who say they are ready for a female president has dropped by nine points, according to a new Times/SAY24 poll from YouGov poll. The survey, conducted after President Biden dropped out of the race, was designed to assess the electorate’s beliefs surrounding “gender bias,” and Vice President Harris’s chances...

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Vice President Harris is tied with former President Trump in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and down 1 point from him in Wisconsin in a set of new Fox News polls released Friday. The polls found Harris and Trump tied at 49 percent support in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and the vice president at 49 percent support in...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) on Friday unveiled an endorsement from the family of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old shot and killed by Ferguson, Mo., police in 2014. Bush is locked in a close primary race against St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell, who defeated a seven-term incumbent in 2018. During his campaign for county prosecutor, Bell...

Former President Trump topped Vice President Harris by 2 points in a new poll from The Wall Street Journal. The former president garnered 49 percent support among registered voters to the vice president’s 47 percent in the poll, conducted in the wake of President Biden leaving the 2024 presidential race. Harris significantly improved on Biden’s...

Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story What would a Harris presidency mean for the environment? Vice President Harris’s ascendance as the likely Democratic nominee has sent a wave of excitement through environmental advocates and climate hawks in Congress, who point to her...

Vice President Kamala Harris will not seek to ban fracking if she’s elected president, an official with her campaign told The Hill on Friday. Harris’s position not to support a ban on fracking differs from where she stood when she was running for president last cycle. While she was one of several Democrats vying for...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story FBI director stirs skepticism over Trump's bullet claims FBI Director Christopher Wray kicked a hornet’s nest when he cast doubt on former President Trump’s claims that he was hit by a bullet in his July 13...