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• Speaker Johnson calls on Biden to visit Columbia amid pro-Palestine protests

  30-04-2024 21:43 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging President Biden to visit Columbia University and observe the pro-Palestine protests roiling its Manhattan campus after Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers stopped by the university grounds and denounced the demonstrations.Asked during a press conference on Tuesday if he would challenge Biden to visit Columbia — which has been the site of one of the most explosive pro-Palestine campus protests in the U.S. — Johnson responded, “Ye
  
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• Fani Willis calls Jim Jordan a 'clown'

  21-05-2024 15:08 via thehill.com
  
  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis went after House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Monday, as the lawmaker continues to investigate her over misconduct allegations as she prosecutes former President Trump's Georgia election interference case.“Jim Jordan has, time after time after time, attacked my office with no legitimate purpose,” Willis said in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. “Anyone who knows Jim Jordan's history knows that he only has the
  
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• GOP lawmaker on Feds, UFOs: 'Give us the information. Let us decide' 

  21-05-2024 03:54 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) is calling on federal government leaders to declassify all documents related to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), arguing federal agencies must be transparent if they are going to be funding millions of dollars.
  Burchett, a member of the House Oversight Committee, introduced the UAP Transparency Act last week. The act would require the U.S. president to direct all federal agencies and departments to make all documents on UAPs available to the public withi
  
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• Biden speaks with Johnson and McConnell to push for border bill

  21-05-2024 02:26 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Monday talked with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as the White House pushes for a vote on a bipartisan border security bill in the Senate.The White House in a statement said Biden "reiterated that Congressional Republicans should stop playing politics and act quickly to pass this bipartisan border legislation that would add thousands of Border Patrol agents and personnel, invest in technology to catch fentanyl and combat drug tr
  
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• Biden rejects allegations of genocide against Israel in Gaza

  21-05-2024 00:15 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Monday said what is happening in Gaza is not genocide and reiterated his support for Israel as he hosted a White House celebration for Jewish American Heritage month.Biden addressed dozens of guests gathered in the Rose Garden, where he rejected claims that Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza, criticized an International Criminal Court (ICC) request for a warrant against Israeli leaders for war crimes and pledged support for the Jewish state in its war against Hamas.&ldquo
  
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• Republican pushing bill to ban gag orders dubbed ‘Let Trump Speak Act’

  20-05-2024 21:55 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is touting a new bill that he says would prohibit judges from issuing gag orders on defendants in most civil and criminal cases.The bill, called the “Let Trump Speak Act,” comes as former President Trump continues to fight against his gag order in the ongoing hush money criminal trial in New York.In an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Monday, Ogles said the bill aims to target gag orders “that are clearly politically motivated.&rd
  
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• US offers condolences, criticism in aftermath of Iranian president’s death

  20-05-2024 20:37 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Monday offered its condolences over the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, while simultaneously criticizing his human rights record and rejecting the suggestion that U.S. sanctions on Iran played a role in the crash.The State Department expressed its “official condolences” for the death of Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian and others who died in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran. White House spokesperson John Kirby rei
  
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• Republicans renew call for sanctions on ICC following Netanyahu arrest warrant

  20-05-2024 20:14 via thehill.com
  
  Republican lawmakers on Monday renewed calls for the United States to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the international body issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.After reports surfaced earlier this month that the ICC was planning to issue the arrest warrants, House Republican Conference Leader Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) introduced a bill that would sanction and revoke the vis
  
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• Biden slams ICC prosecutor's 'outrageous' request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders

  20-05-2024 18:53 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Monday ripped the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor for seeking arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous," Biden said in a statement. "And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas.  We will always stand with Israel against threa
  
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• Greene posts workout video after Crockett fundraising crack

  20-05-2024 18:46 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is defending her "built and strong" physique, after Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) returned a dig at her appearance during an insult-heavy clash in a House Oversight Committee hearing last week.
  "Yes my body is built and strong NOT with nips, tucks, plastic, or silicone, but through a healthy lifestyle," the 49-year-old lawmaker wrote on X on Monday. Alongside a video of herself repeatedly lifting a weight while Sia's 2016 hit, "Unstoppable,"
  
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• Hatch Act loophole closing, top official says

  20-05-2024 15:22 via thehill.com
  
  The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) is closing a loophole in the Hatch Act, which prevents federal employees from political activity on the job, the office announced in a new rule Monday.Hampton Dellinger, who leads OSC, wrote in Politico that he has instructed his office to fully enforce the act against White House employees, going against a long-standing policy that he described as a loophole.“After a careful review of past and present policies, I’m updating my agency’s e
  
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• White House presses Senate Democrats to support border security bill

  20-05-2024 15:01 via thehill.com
  
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday urged senators to pass a border security bill expected to come up for a vote this week after Republicans blocked the measure earlier this year."This bipartisan border legislation would deliver the significant policy changes, resources, and personnel needed to secure our border and make our country safer," Jean-Pierre said in a statement.She cited funding for thousands of additional Border Patrol agents, investments in technology to catch f
  
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• Federal judge in Texas blocks Biden rule expanding gun background checks

  20-05-2024 14:40 via thehill.com
  
  A federal judge in Texas on Sunday blocked a Biden administration rule that expanded the requirements for background checks when selling a firearm.
  Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk granted an injunction against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to prevent the federal government from fully implementing the rule in Texas, though he also .found that the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Utah do not have standing in the case.“I am relieved that we were able to secure a restraining order th
  
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• Schumer tees up round two for bipartisan border bill

  20-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is tee-ing up a second attempt at passing the bipartisan border bill — after Republicans blocked it earlier this year — a move that comes as the situation at the southern border remains top of mind for voters ahead of the November elections.Schumer announced on Sunday that the Senate will take up the bipartisan border deal as a standalone measure this week. The vote is all but certain to fail amid opposition on both sides of the aisl
  
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• Congress sets stage for ‘side deal’ spending fight with White House 

  20-05-2024 11:30 via thehill.com
  
  Congress is setting the stage for another partisan government-funding fight, as conservatives look to chip away at a previous “side deal” struck between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the White House aimed at boosting nondefense dollars.  Democrats have been sharply criticizing a recent announcement by House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) previewing cuts the party could seek for fiscal year 2025 funding for nondefense programs, as GOP negotiators prepare to
  
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• Sullivan presses Netanyahu for a more focused military campaign in Gaza

  20-05-2024 04:51 via thehill.com
  
  White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan reiterated Biden administration pressure on Israel to limit its military operation in Gaza during a visit to the country on Sunday.Sullivan is on a combined trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia as the U.S. leans on its lead Arab ally in the region to calm tempers in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. The White House said before Sullivan’s meeting Sunday that he would urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make limited o
  
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• White House hits back at Stefanik after she blasts Biden in Israel

  19-05-2024 23:57 via thehill.com
  
  The White House hit back against House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) speech before the Israeli government’s legislative body on Sunday, when she attacked President Biden for his policy approach to Israel and the war in Gaza.In a statement, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates reaffirmed Biden’s “ironclad” support for Israeli’s security and said, “There has been no better friend to Israel than President Biden.”“He was
  
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• Stefanik blasts Biden to Israel's Knesset

  19-05-2024 23:10 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) harshly denounced President Biden’s policy towards Israel during a speech to the country’s parliament, the Knesset, on Sunday in Tel Aviv. Stefanik, the highest-ranking Republican to visit Israel since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, blasted the president’s warnings that he could withhold support for Israel if it invades Rafah in Gaza.“I have been clear at home and I will be clear here: There is no excuse for an American president t
  
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• Stefanik blasts Biden in speech to Israel's Knesset

  19-05-2024 23:10 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) harshly denounced President Biden’s policy toward Israel during a speech to the country’s parliament, the Knesset, on Sunday in Tel Aviv. Stefanik, the highest-ranking Republican to visit Israel since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, blasted the president’s warnings that he could withhold support for Israel if it invades Rafah in Gaza.“I have been clear at home and I will be clear here: There is no excuse for an American president to
  
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• Here are the 7 states most likely to flip in the Biden-Trump race

  19-05-2024 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  The looming November rematch between President Biden and former President Trump could be decided by just a handful of states. Six months out from Election Day, all eyes are on seven toss-up states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — where 93 electoral votes will be up for grabs this fall. Biden won all but North Carolina back in 2020, but recent polling suggests Trump has an edge over the incumbent in several of
  
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• House Democrat says cutting federal funds for Harvard 'needs to be on the table'

  19-05-2024 18:50 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) on Sunday said cutting federal funds for Harvard University and other schools should be an option "on the table" over their handling of campus antisemitism.
  Auchincloss, who is an alum of Harvard, visited the Ivy League school earlier this month amid the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests and argued the school's handling of antisemitism might violate federal law. When asked on "Fox News Sunday" if he believes Harvard should lose federal funding, Auchincloss sa
  
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• House Dem says cutting federal funds for Harvard 'needs to be on the table'

  19-05-2024 18:50 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) on Sunday said cutting federal funds for Harvard University and other schools should be an option "on the table" over their handling of campus antisemitism.
  Auchincloss, who is an alum of Harvard, visited the Ivy League earlier this month amid the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests and argued the schools' handling of antisemitism might violate federal law. When asked on "Fox News Sunday" if he believes Harvard should lose federal funding, Auchincloss said, "It
  
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• Biden decries Gaza humanitarian crisis at Morehouse, winning applause

  19-05-2024 17:28 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden decried the "humanitarian crisis in Gaza" in his commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, which marked his first appearance on a college campus since student protests erupted nationwide over the Israel-Hamas war.“What's happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking. Hamas’s vicious attack on Israel, killing innocent lives and holding people hostage … innocent Palestinians caught in the middle of all this,” Biden told the crowd of graduates at
  
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• Crockett offering 'bleach blonde' t-shirts following spat with Greene

  19-05-2024 17:21 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is launching "A Crockett Clapback Collection" of t-shirts meant to raise money for Democratic candidates following the attention on her clash with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
  Crockett wrote on social media platform X on Friday that she will be launching a merchandise collection that will include things that "will feature various swag that includes random things" she has said.
  This will include her comment that appeared to target Greene during a House Over
  
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• Stefanik, Fox News anchor spar over NYT report questioning her support of Trump

  19-05-2024 16:42 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Sunday pushed back against "Fox News Sunday" anchor Shannon Bream for referencing a report that questioned her past support of former President Trump as her name continues to be floated as his vice-presidential pick.
  In a conversation Sunday about Trump's short-list for vice president, Bream referenced a New York Times report published in 2022 that included anecdotes about years-old comments Stefanik made criticizing the former president. "Shannon, it's
  
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• Stefanik, Fox News anchor spar over New York Times report questioning her support of Trump

  19-05-2024 16:42 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Sunday pushed back against "Fox News Sunday" anchor Shannon Bream for referencing a report that questioned her past support of former President Trump as her name continues to be floated as his potential vice-presidential pick.
  In a conversation Sunday about Trump's shortlist for vice president, Bream referenced a New York Times report published in 2022 that included anecdotes about years-old comments Stefanik made criticizing the former president. "Shan
  
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• Crockett says she doesn't regret comments hitting back at Greene

  19-05-2024 16:35 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Sunday that she does not regret insulting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after the two lawmakers clashed during a House committee hearing last week."I don't, because here's the thing. I signed up to be a member of Congress. That didn't mean that I was supposed to walk into a position where I'm going to walk in and be disrespected," she told co-host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" when asked if she regrets her comments during the House hearing.C
  
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• Fetterman responds to Ocasio-Cortez's criticism: 'That's absurd'

  19-05-2024 15:59 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) responded Sunday to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) criticism of his comments mocking the Jerry Springer-like chaos during a House hearing last week, where the progressive House member ripped Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
  Fetterman in a social media post said he wanted to apologize to the Jerry Springer show over the insult-laden hearing, saying it had effectively hit a new low.
  Ocasio-Cortez fired back at Fetterman, who in recent weeks has also batt
  
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• Biden delivers Morehouse College commencement address: Watch live

  19-05-2024 14:43 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, setting foot on a college campus for the first time since universities around the country became hotbeds for protests over the Israel-Hamas war.The White House last hinted that Biden would reference the concerns of students and faculty at the male-only, historically Black college over his approach to the war.Biden's remarks are scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. EDTWatch the video above.
  
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• Raskin on upside-down flag at Alito home: 'It's a very clear conflict of interest'

  19-05-2024 14:18 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the upside-down flag that flew briefly at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home demonstrates a “very clear conflict of interest.”Raskin told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart during an interview Saturday that Alito’s response to The New York Times' reporting of the incident shows that the justice understands it is a “political symbol” to turn the American flag upside down, adding that it’s a sign of “political distr
  
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