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It will take smart decisions, strategic alignment and collaboration between Congress and the administration to seize this opportunity.

Education The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania hired Cassidy & Associates to lobby on issues related to higher education. The Ivy League university and other elite colleges have faced backlash over their handling of protests against the Israeli government. UPenn’s then-president Liz Magill resigned in December following a congressional hearing in which she decline...

America needs to step back and ask whether there is anything we can do to restore civility to civil society.

Former Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) decision to run for reelection as an independent after being expelled from Congress mirrors a similar incident involving a disgraced lawmaker from more than 20 years ago. Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio) was expelled from Congress in 2002 in a 420-1 vote after his conviction on federal racketeering and tax charges. The...

A potential independent run from Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) for his Senate seat would garner less than 10 percent of the vote from New Jersey voters, according to a new poll released Tuesday. The poll from Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill showed Menendez would only receive 9 percent support in the general election as an independent,...

The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee (RNC) are insisting they are ramping up activity since Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee but both are short on specifics. RNC and Trump campaign officials in recent days detailed planned investments in battleground states, and Trump himself will travel Tuesday to Michigan and Wisconsin, his first events...

Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) has the support of a majority of Democratic primary voters in New Jersey after his main opponent dropped out last week, a new poll released Tuesday has found.  The survey from Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill showed Kim leading in the Democratic race for Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) Senate seat with 51...

Advocates are pushing to put abortion on the ballot — literally — in November, spurring hope among Democrats that having measures aimed at enshrining rights around the procedure could boost turnout and help their candidates in the most competitive races. Seven states have voted on abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade back...

Conservatives are hoping for major education reforms from President Trump should he return to the White House. The presumptive Republican nominee has touted his record with school choice and his goal to reverse President Biden’s Title IX reforms, as well as regularly decrying efforts at student loan forgiveness. Education has never been a...

Speculation is heating up about former President Trump’s choice of running mate. But the bigger question is, does it matter? The former president is so uncommonly polarizing there will be few voters who can be shifted one way or another by a vice-presidential candidate. Trump being Trump, his eclipse of whoever is on the lower...

Over 8,000 anti-Muslim complaints were recorded across the nation last year, marking the highest total in the 30 years the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has tracked the complaints. In its report, published Tuesday, CAIR said it received 8,061 complaints of anti-Muslim incidents, surpassing the previous record in 2021, when 6,720 incidents were reported. This...

The mayor of Uvalde, Texas, abruptly resigned on Monday, citing health concerns. Cody Smith’s exit comes after he won the 2023 election in a race that hinged on the Robb Elementary School shooting. "I want to thank members of the Uvalde community for their thoughts and prayers during my ongoing recovery from unexpected medical issues...

Due to rising mortgage rates and falling rents, it's cheaper to rent than buy a starter home in every one of the country's 50 largest metropolitan areas, according to new data from Realtor.com published Monday. February marked the seventh consecutive decline in rental prices for apartments and small homes, with rents falling by about 0.4 percent compared...

Former Trump administration aide Hope Hicks is expected to testify for the prosecution in the former president’s New York hush money trial, NBC News reported Monday. Hicks, once one of Trump’s closest aides, was interviewed by prosecutors for the case last year. Trump faces charges that he falsified business records in attempts to cover up...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said Monday that President Biden may be a "greater threat to democracy" than former President Trump, citing his own legal battle against the Biden administration over social media censorship. Kennedy said in a CNN interview with Erin Burnett on Monday that he could "make an argument" that Biden is worse,...

A New York judge expanded former President Trump's gag order on Monday to limit his recent barrage of attacks against the judge's daughter. Justice Juan Merchan's five-page ruling excoriated Trump over his series of Truth Social posts attacking the judge's daughter since the former president was placed under a gag order last week. "This pattern of attacking family...

A federal judge in California ruled against Hunter Biden’s attempt to toss out his tax charges on Monday, letting the criminal case against the president’s son move forward. The younger Biden faces three felony charges and six misdemeanor charges in connection to tax evasion, filing a false return and failing to pay taxes between 2016...

Former President Trump posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case Monday evening, staving off the possible seizure of his assets while appealing a state judge’s ruling against him over deceitful business practices. The bond, from the Knight Specialty Insurance Company, automatically bars New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) from...

President Biden’s reelection campaign announced Monday that it will aim to flip Florida, targeting the home of former President Trump. Campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a memo that investing in Florida is part of the Biden campaign’s pathway to 270 electoral votes. Trump won the Sunshine State in 2020 with more than 51...

The Florida Supreme Court upheld the state’s abortion law Monday, setting up a change to the law in the coming months that will likely be a focus for the November election. The court upheld the state’s current 15-week ban on abortion in the Monday ruling, allowing it to continue to be enforced. The conservative majority...

The president’s plan has the potential to relieve suffering … or compound tragedy.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed a bill Monday legalizing paid surrogacy, arguing the controversial practice enables people to start families more easily. The Michigan Family Protection Act also establishes legal protections for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a practice that has been in the political spotlight since it was briefly banned by a court in...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Florida Supreme Court sets up major abortion fight The Florida Supreme Court on Monday ruled to uphold the state’s 15-week abortion ban, with the majority of the conservative-leaning court finding that the state’s right to privacy does not...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story  Google agrees to destroy private browsing data Google has agreed to destroy “billions of data records” collected during private browsing sessions to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the tech giant of improperly tracking people. © AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File The company also...

The last survivor of the USS Arizona battleship, sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, died Monday, his family announced. Lou Conter, who went on to be a lieutenant commander in the Navy after the attack, was 102 years old. Conter was 20 when hundreds of Japanese aircraft assaulted Pearl Harbor, a sneak...