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Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle are accusing the other party of “extremism” in rhetoric and action, drawing blistering contrasts at a time when the country’s fiscal...

Editor's note: The first part of a 2-part series on the politicization of fentanyl overdoses. The Republican takeover of the House shifted congressional oversight of the border, with GOP lawmakers using their new powers in efforts to link the fentanyl crisis to migration. Fentanyl has increased the stakes in the decades-long drug war, inflaming the...

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said recently that his committee's investigations into Hunter Biden and his business transactions are just “beginning” as he seeks to create a headache for the White House as President Biden prepares to launch his reelection campaign. Comer and his committee are trying to unveil whether Biden’s son’s business dealings abroad...

Congress is inching closer toward repealing two Iraq war authorizations decades after their enactment, with bipartisan support emerging to reassert congressional authority, protect against a potential misuse of military force and send a message of support to Iraq, now a strategic U.S. ally. The Senate is considering legislation to repeal Authorizations for the Use of...

Former President Trump’s mounting legal troubles and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) extended absence from the Capitol has created a momentary leadership vacuum atop the Republican Party that’s struggling to find its direction ahead of the 2024 election. Republican lawmakers are divided over the question of whether Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis...

Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Ma.) are set to launch a new congressional caucus this week focused on enshrining the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “Exactly 100 years after the ERA was first introduced in Congress in 1923, the launch of this caucus serves to commemorate...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday that the Kremlin plans to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, drawing claims of "nuclear blackmail" from Ukraine and condemnation from the United States and NATO. Putin said the move would counter the U.S.’s deployments of nuclear weapons in different European countries, placing nuclear weapons across the border from...

One migrant was found dead and three others were taken to a nearby medical facility after being found train boxcar in Eagle Pass, Texas over the weekend.  It was the second time in two days that authorities discovered migrants trapped in a train car in the Lone Star state.  Two migrants died and ten others...

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said former President Trump's rhetoric regarding his possible indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is "more overt and blatant" than his language leading up to Jan. 6. "Well, I think it's a concern, the rhetoric that he's using today is not dissimilar to the type of rhetoric he used prior...

The Biden administration is "deeply concerned" about ongoing tensions in Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the country's defense minister on Sunday. "We are deeply concerned by today’s developments out of Israel, which further underscore the urgent need for compromise," National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement Sunday. Netanyahu has backed controversial judicial reforms...