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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 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 vowed...

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 new poll, conducted in the wake of President Biden leaving the 2024 presidential race. Harris significantly improved upon...

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...

The gun safety group Giffords unveiled a $15 million campaign to help Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and other Democrats. The organization, founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), is spending the money to reach voters through television, digital and mail advertisement. “The efforts will support elected allies up and down the ballot and promote...

Presented by PhRMA — 🤸 Plus: The Olympics opening ceremony {beacon} 12:30 REPORT Happy Friday! The Olympic opening ceremony starts at 1:30 p.m. EDT! *loudly hums the Olympic anthem* Is anyone else getting up at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday to watch Team USA’s women gymnastics? 🤸 Here's what's happening today: The Obamas endorsed Vice President Harris’s...

On questions of war and peace, words matter — a lot.

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be concerned about Vice President Kamala Harris’s demeanor following their meeting on Thursday. “She was very icy in her demeanor, showed strong discipline there, and her words were a clear signal,” Bolton said on CNN Friday. “Harry Truman should be turning...

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the state’s law banning gender affirming care for minors and abortion after 12 weeks, ruling the two issues were legally allowed to be combined. The abortion ban was added as an amendment to Legislative Bill 574, a bill that would restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender...