President Biden is enjoying what looks like an enduring bump in approval polls, a shift that is linked to a number of factors that could help Democrats in the midterm elections. Biden and his party's ultra-narrow congressional majorities have notched a series of legislative successes over the past 18 months. The national average for a gallon of gasoline is down roughly 24 cents from a month ago. And former President Trump has reemerged as a headline-grabbing figure in recent months, especially as investigations into a wide range of alleged wrongdoing have ramped up. Read more from The Hill's Brett Samuels here on the major issues driving the upswing. |
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Welcome to The Hill's Evening Report, catching you up on news from the afternoon and looking at the big stories likely to impact tomorrow. |
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👑 PHOTOS: Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II |
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch, was honored with a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday. |
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🚌 Here's where GOP governors have sent nearly 13,000 migrants
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Republican governors in three border states have sent nearly 13,000 migrants to Democratic-led cities in protest of President Biden's immigration policies. The Hill has tracked the four cities that have so far been targeted by the GOP governors. |
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🏛️ Kinzinger predicts weekly impeachment vote if GOP takes House |
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) in a new interview predicts that GOP lawmakers will demand a vote to impeach President Biden "every week" if Republicans take control of the House in the midterms.
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🗳️ Jan. 6 panel members offer long-awaited elections reform bill
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Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), two members of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, have introduced a bill to reform the Electoral College Act, offering a number of provisions to protect elections from interference by state and federal lawmakers. |
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💵 Strong US dollar boomerangs on Europe
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The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates another three quarters of a point this week in its effort to bring down inflation, further increasing the strength of a rapidly rising dollar in the process.
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🚗 US traffic deaths see first quarterly decline since 2020
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Traffic deaths on U.S. roadways saw a dip in the second quarter of 2022, the first decline since 2020, when fatalities began to climb.
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🎓 GOP lawmakers worry loan forgiveness could hurt military recruiting
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Some House GOP lawmakers are pushing President Biden to address concerns that his student loan forgiveness plan could hurt military recruiting by making the GI Bill seem less valuable.
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⛳ LIV Golf leader lobbies Congress on league plans |
LIV Golf CEO and Commissioner Greg Norman visited Capitol Hill on Monday in an effort to discuss with lawmakers the future plans and initiatives of the controversial new golfing league backed by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. |
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🏈 Walker downplays debate with Warnock: 'I'm not that smart'
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Georgia Senate hopeful Herschel Walker (R) downplayed himself ahead of his debate with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) next month, saying "I'm not that smart" — comments that his campaign argued were sarcasm. |
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📊 Abbott widens lead over O'Rourke in Texas governor's race: poll
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has widened his lead to 9 percentage points over Democratic challenger, Beto O'Rourke, according to a new poll released from The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler.
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🌵 Youngkin holding Arizona events for Lake
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is headed to Arizona next month to stump for Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. |
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🤰 CDC: 80 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable
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A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that more than 80 percent of pregnancy-related deaths that occurred in 36 U.S. states from 2017-2019 were preventable. |
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✈️ FAA rejects airline's request to reduce pilot time requirement |
The Federal Aviation Administration has denied a request from Republic Airways to halve the flight time required for new pilots if they attend the airline's training school. |
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🏥 Medical debt is straining the pockets of Americans — even insured
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Many Americans are burdened with medical debt, and new research suggests even those with health insurance are not spared.
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Was the queen's death necessary for progress?
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"Is human death a driver of progress or a technical problem, to be solved? The fact is that Queen Elizabeth's (or anyone else's) funeral will not magically ensure moral or ideological progress," writes Raiany Romani, a bioethicist and an IDEA Fellow at Harvard University. |
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