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• GOP winner of Indiana House primary died in March

  08-05-2024 21:28 via thehill.com
  
  It's unclear who will represent the Republican party in the race for Indiana’s 7th Congressional District, as the winner of the party's primary Tuesday night died earlier this year.
  Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) currently represents Indiana’s 7th District, which is forecast to be a “safe” seat for Democrats in the upcoming 2024 House elections. Carson won reelection in 2022 by over 30 percent, according to state election results.Jennifer Pace, the winner of the GOP primary b
  
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• Democrats say Biden caved on ‘red line’ warning in Rafah

  31-05-2024 11:30 via thehill.com
  
  Liberal Democrats are going after President Biden for his approach to Israel’s incursion into Rafah, accusing the president of caving on his “red line” warning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to storm into the city for fear of outsized civilian casualties.The Democrats say Netanyahu has clearly crossed that line, as Israeli tanks have reportedly reached the center of Rafah and Israeli missile strikes have killed dozens of Palestinian civilians seeking refuge
  
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• Crockett’s viral moment causes some to cringe

  31-05-2024 11:30 via thehill.com
  
  When Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) went viral with her “bleach blonde bad built butch body” remark hurled at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, she won waves of applause from many on the left glad to see someone stand up to the Georgia Republican. Yet there were also some who cringed, particularly as the alliterative insult sunk in.  In attacking Greene, who had earlier made a nasty comment about Crockett's eyelashes, Crockett used language that also felt demeaning to an e
  
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• Internet providers agree to continue discounted plans through end of 2024 as federal subsidies end

  31-05-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  More than a dozen internet service providers have agreed to continue offering discounted internet plans to low-income households through the end of 2024, as the federal program subsidizing the discounts comes to an end, the Biden administration announced Friday. AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Spectrum, Verizon, and nine other providers will continue offering their $30 or less plans to those currently enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program and other eligible households. Other particip
  
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• Democrats giddy over Trump guilty verdict: 'Hallelujah!’

  31-05-2024 00:49 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats cheered former President Trump’s conviction in the New York hush money case Thursday, hailing the guilty verdict as a victory for the justice system and proof that nobody — including an ex-commander in chief — is above the law.Some liberals appeared giddy immediately following the reading of the verdict, expressing a sense of excitement that a 12-person jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, a verdict that could lead to ja
  
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• Greene reacts to Trump verdict with upside-down American flag

  31-05-2024 00:25 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday shared an upside-down American flag in reaction to former President Trump being found guilty on all counts in his hush money case.
  Greene, in a post on X Thursday, shared a graphic of an inverted flag, a sign of distress that has been widely used by the "stop the steal" movement that argues Trump did not lose the 2020 election.
  It came shortly after Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York, making him the f
  
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• Republicans slam Trump verdict in New York hush money case

  31-05-2024 00:09 via thehill.com
  
  Republican allies of former President Trump expressed outrage after a New York jury found him guilty on all 34 charges in his hush money criminal trial. Thursday marked a first in American history when Trump became the first former or current president to claim the moniker of convicted felon after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records. The verdict has injected uncertainty into an already tumultuous election cycle, though members of the party rushed to his def
  
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• Speaker Johnson predicts Trump victory in appeal of 'absurd' verdict

  30-05-2024 23:52 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday blasted Donald Trump’s conviction in his New York hush money case, predicting that the former president will successfully appeal the “absurd” verdict.“Today is a shameful day in American history,” Johnson said in a statement released minutes after Trump’s guilty verdict was read in court.“The American people rightfully see this is lawfare, and they know it is—and dangerous,” he added. “President
  
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• Biden after verdict: Only way to keep Trump out of the White House is at the ballot box

  30-05-2024 23:47 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday said that the only way to keep former President Trump out of the White House is at the polls in November, after he was found guilty in his New York hush money case.“There’s only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: At the ballot box,” Biden said on X, sharing a link to a donate to his campaign.Trump became the first former U.S. president to be a convicted felon after a jury found him guilty on all counts of falsifying business records
  
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• Biden partially lifts ban on Ukraine using US weapons to strike Russia

  30-05-2024 23:15 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration has partially lifted a ban on Ukrainian forces using U.S. arms to strike within Russian territory in a bid to defend Kharkiv, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday.President Biden “recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S.-supplied weapons for counter-fire purposes in the Kharkiv region so Ukraine can hit back against Russian forces that are attacking them or preparing to attack them,” a U.S. official told The Hill.But they stressed t
  
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• Rove knocks Greene over Trump assassination 'misinformation'

  30-05-2024 20:57 via thehill.com
  
  Republican strategist Karl Rove criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday over remarks she made that the Biden administration had planned an assassination of former President Trump.“That was so outlandish that the Russians picked it up, and she is a star on Russian TV because they wanna use that bit of misinformation to paint us in a wrong fashion,” Rove said Thursday on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.Rove wa
  
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• Crockett defends capitalizing on Greene insult: 'There was a demand'

  30-05-2024 19:52 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Thursday defended fundraising off the “bleach-blonde, bad-built butch body” insult she directed at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) amid a heated exchange between the two lawmakers during a committee hearing earlier this month.In an interview on ABC’s “The View,” Crockett said she trademarked the phrase after she saw an opportunity to raise money for what she characterized as a righteous pursuit: to save democracy by helping Dem
  
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• Biden mocks reporter: ‘Did you fall on your head or something?’

  30-05-2024 18:57 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden responded to a shouted question about whether he would serve a second full term by questioning if the reporter who asked had fallen on his head.“Are you OK? Are you all right? You're not hurt, are you?” Biden said after landing in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Biden first paused and pointed to his head before speaking in response to a question shouted at him asking, “Will you be serving your full four-year term or handing your power over to Vice President Harris?&r
  
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• House COVID panel asks for Fauci's private emails, cellphone records

  30-05-2024 18:44 via thehill.com
  
  The chair of the House subcommittee investigating the COVID-19 pandemic is asking for Anthony Fauci’s private emails and cellphone records related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, EcoHealth and the origins of the coronavirus. The letter sent by Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) on Wednesday is as part of an escalating probe into the virus’s origins that lawmakers say has uncovered efforts to hide official government correspondence, evade Freedom of Information Act requests and avoi
  
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• Netanyahu criticizes Biden administration for not backing ICC sanctions 

  30-05-2024 18:29 via thehill.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the Biden administration for not backing sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the Israel-Hamas war.“I'm surprised and disappointed, because I think it's to the detriment, not only of Israel's interest, I think… it's… to the detriment of America's interest, because Israel may be attacked first by the ICC, but you're next. America's really the target,” Netanyahu said in a clip of an interview on
  
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• Biden administration awarding $900M for green school buses

  30-05-2024 17:51 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration announced Thursday that it would be awarding nearly $900 million for clean energy school buses to hundreds of school districts across the country.Through the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, the agency selected more than 500 school districts to receiving the funding to replace diesel fueled school buses.The funding will also allow schools to purchase more than 3,400 new clean school buses, 92 percent of which
  
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• Biden to mark D-Day anniversary with remarks in France

  30-05-2024 15:32 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings with remarks in France next month, the White House announced Thursday.Biden will travel to Normandy on June 5 and give his remarks on June 6. He will then participate in other engagements with first lady Jill Biden for the anniversary, which will include greeting American veterans and their family members to honor those who landed at Utah and Omaha beaches in Normandy in 1944.The president celebrated the 79 anniversary of D-Day
  
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• Gaza conditions worse than ever, USAID chief says

  30-05-2024 15:04 via thehill.com
  
  Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), gave a stark warning about the conditions in Gaza this week, as war rages in the region between Israel and Hamas.“Our humanitarian partners working in Gaza tell us that conditions are worse now than ever before,” Power wrote Wednesday in a post on social media platform X. “Israeli military operations & closed crossings are making it extremely difficult to distribute aid.”Her st
  
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• Bowman rips Haley for writing 'finish them' on Israeli bomb: 'Disgusting'

  30-05-2024 14:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) tore into former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley Wednesday, calling her a “disgusting human being” after she was photographed writing “Finish them” on an Israeli bomb during a visit to the country this week.The message on the shell, photographed and celebrated by Israel’s former U.N. ambassador Danny Danon, read “Finish them! America [heart] Israel always, Nikki Haley.” Bowman harshly criticized Haley for the comment in a CNN
  
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• Biden opposition leaves House bill hitting ICC in limbo

  30-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The White House has complicated Congress’s plans to reprimand the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the Israel-Hamas war, shooting down the nascent sanctions proposal that bipartisan House negotiators had hoped to move to President Biden’s desk early next month. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has been in talks with Democrats in both chambers and the administration over legislation to slap penalties on ICC officials for recommending w
  
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• Raskin argues DOJ can force recusals of Alito, Thomas in Jan. 6 cases

  30-05-2024 03:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could force the recusals of Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito in cases it is facing related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack.“Everyone assumes that nothing can be done about the recusal situation because the highest court in the land has the lowest ethical standards — no binding ethics code or process outside of personal reflection,” the Maryland Democrat said in an opinion piece in Th
  
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• Roberts faces calls to press Alito for recusal

  30-05-2024 00:15 via thehill.com
  
  House Judiciary Democrats asked Chief Justice John Roberts to detail how the Supreme Court plans to enforce its code of conduct, arguing Justice Samuel Alito violated its policies by raising flags connected to the “Stop the Steal” effort at his two homes.The group accuses Alito of violating one provision that bars justices from endorsing a candidate for office and another that requires recusal in which their “impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”The code of conduc
  
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• Fox News anchor to Alina Habba: Biden 'not responsible' for Trump trial

  29-05-2024 23:22 via thehill.com
  
  Fox News anchor and legal analyst Shannon Bream pushed back on an assertion made by Alina Habba, one of Donald Trump's attorneys, that President Biden is responsible for the criminal charges the former president faces in New York.
  "And Joe Biden unfortunately can't really do anything in office," Habba said as she joined Bream, the host of "Fox News Sunday" who has been broadcasting from outside the Manhattan courthouse where Trump's trial is taking place for much of the afternoon. "So he's got
  
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• Biden predicts next president will appoint ‘a couple justices’

  29-05-2024 22:48 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden predicted that the next president will be able to appoint two new Supreme Court justices during a speech Wednesday, while warning against former President Trump winning another term.“Guess what, the next president, they’re going to be able to appoint a couple of justices and I’ll be damned—” he said at a rally in Philadelphia.The president campaigned at Girard College for the launch of Black Voters for Biden-Harris, an effort intended to mobiliz
  
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• House Ethics Committee launches probe into Cuellar following indictment

  29-05-2024 21:21 via thehill.com
  
  The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday said it has launched an investigation into Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) after he and his wife were indicted on allegations that they accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and laundered the money.Reps. Michael Guest (R-Miss.) and Susan Wild (D-Pa.), the chair and ranking member of the Ethics Committee, respectively, said the panel unanimously voted to establish an investigative subcommittee to look into whether Cuellar “solicited or acce
  
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• Ethics Committee launches probe into Cuellar following indictment

  29-05-2024 21:21 via thehill.com
  
  The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday said it has launched an investigation into Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) after the congressman and his wife were indicted on allegations that they accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and laundered the money.Reps. Michael Guest (R-Miss.) and Susan Wild (D-Pa.), the chair and ranking member of the Ethics Committee, said the panel unanimously voted to establish an investigative subcommittee to look into whether Cuellar “solicited or accep
  
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• 'This is sexual violence': Ocasio-Cortez boosts bill to tackle AI deepfake porn 

  29-05-2024 20:11 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is emphasizing the need for federal legislation that would add protections around the spread of nonconsensual artificial intelligence (AI) deepfake pornography.  In a Tuesday video, Ocasio-Cortez underscored the need for protections, like the bipartisan Defiance Act she is leading in the House, amid a rise in AI generated nonconsensual porn of prominent figures and regular people.  “This is sexual violence,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the v
  
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• 5 takeaways from Texas's contentious primary runoffs

  29-05-2024 18:02 via thehill.com
  
  Texas’s GOP primary runoffs put Republican intraparty divisions on full display Tuesday night as several mainline conservative incumbents fended off challenges from their right even as other incumbents got picked off.Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and state House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) both survived primary contests against challengers who enjoyed support from either former President Trump or hard-line conservatives.  At the same time, a handful of state lawmakers lost their reele
  
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• 5 takeaways from Texas' contentious primary runoffs

  29-05-2024 18:02 via thehill.com
  
  Texas’ GOP primary runoffs put Republican intraparty divisions on full display Tuesday night as several mainline conservative incumbents fended off challenges from their right even as other incumbents got picked off.  Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and state House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) both survived primary contests against challengers who enjoyed support from either Donald Trump or hardline conservatives.  At the same time, a handful of state lawmakers lost their reelection
  
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• Charlamagne tha God: White House has 'handcuffed' Harris

  29-05-2024 17:46 via thehill.com
  
  Radio host Charlamagne tha God thinks the Biden administration has "handcuffed" Vice President Harris.Charlamagne, who recently called former President Trump a "threat to democracy," joined Brian Kilmeade for an interview on “Fox & Friends,” where they got into a back-and-forth conversation about Harris’s role in the administration and in the media."The Breakfast Club" host said he thinks Harris should make appearances on Fox News so people can’t misconstrue her words
  
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