A dramatic day in Washington on Friday shook up the 2024 presidential race, causing big problems for President Biden and former President Trump. The more shocking development came when Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the president's son, Hunter Biden. The special counsel will be David Weiss, who had already been the lead federal prosecutor on the matter but with more circumscribed powers. |
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The high-profile prosecution of former President Trump for his role in seeking to block the transfer of power is eliciting a long-shot campaign to bring cameras into the courtroom. While the case against Trump itself may be unprecedented, it's running up against a long-standing federal court precedent that bars televising the hearings or recording them in any fashion. |
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Abortion rights advocates are looking to follow up on a win in Ohio this week with efforts in numerous states to enshrine abortion protections into state constitutions in 2024. The defeat of a ballot initiative in Ohio is the latest in a series of wins for Democrats and reproductive rights advocates. The proposal, called Issue 1, would have made it harder to amend the Ohio Constitution ahead of a November ballot measure to codify abortion rights in the state constitution. |
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Fifty years after it was created in New York City's Bronx borough, hip hop is a multi-billion dollar industry that doubles as a powerful political tool for Black Americans. The music for a half-century has highlighted the experiences that Black, Brown and poor people face in America, and has operated as a breaking news service of sorts — often ahead of the rest of the media — in drawing attention to injustice and police brutality. |
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Climate change is the major driver of this year's extreme temperatures, not the eruption last year of an underwater volcano near Tonga in the Pacific Ocean, scientists tell The Hill. While the eruption of the volcano may be an aggravating factor, the scientists say it is not having the impact attributed to it by conservative commentators who have downplayed the role of climate change. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS, REBECCA BEITSCH AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed David Weiss, the Delaware federal prosecutor who has led the investigation into Hunter Biden, as a special counsel overseeing the investigation. The move comes as a pending plea deal involving Biden, the president's son, appears to be unwinding. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
Attorney General Merrick Garland's move to elevate U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss to special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation sits against the backdrop of multiple GOP investigations, puts the focus back on two IRS whistleblowers and comes as a plea deal for Biden over tax issues has evaporated. Garland made the surprise announcement on Friday and was immediately met with Republican backlash and plenty of questions. Here are four things to know in light of the announcement. |
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Prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden on tax-related charges say a trial is imminent after plea deal negotiations fell apart last month. David Weiss, the U.S. attorney leading the investigation moved to dismiss the case against Biden in new court filings so prosecutors can bring charges in Washington, D.C., or California. |
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BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan at turns sided with the Justice Department and attorneys for former President Trump in a battle over how much he can publicly discuss evidence as he faces trial for seeking to overturn the 2020 election. Chutkan hashed out a deal that gives Trump more latitude to discuss evidence gathered in the Jan. 6 case while blocking the sharing of sensitive discovery such as witnesses testimony gathered in the case. |
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Democratic strategist James Carville isn't one to hold his tongue, and in an interview with The Hill this week, he wasn't shy about offering his uncensored opinions on former President Trump and No Labels, the group flirting with backing a third-party candidate. The longtime political adviser to Bill Clinton known for his folksy tone, was unabashedly critical of the No Labels effort, criticizing the group for not being open about its donors. |
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BY GIL BARNDOLLAR AND MATTHEW C. MAI |
OPINION | The U.S. military's all-volunteer force (AVF) quietly turned 50 last month. Though the end of the draft in 1973 was a seminal moment for both the U.S. military and American society, the anniversary received minimal official recognition. Celebrating the AVF's big birthday would have entailed admitting an uncomfortable truth: that the U.S. military is in the middle of an unprecedented recruiting crisis. In fact, the military, and especially the Army, is now shrinking. As recently as 2018, Army planners called for growing the force by 2023. Today the service is unable to even maintain current force levels. Last year the Army set an active-duty end strength target of 485,000 troops. Due to recruiting shortfalls, Congress lowered the target by 33,000 for 2023. The Army is saying it will miss this lower goal too. |
OPINION | Republican presidential hopefuls will line up on August 23 for the first round of primary debates. For conservatives who lived through the late 1970s and the 1980s, Ronald Reagan set a standard for how to behave as a candidate and then how to lead as a president. What were the traits and accomplishments that made Reagan the model for many subsequent GOP candidates? For me, six come to mind. |
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BY JUSTIN SCHECK AND THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF |
In the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, with the invading Russian Army bearing down on Kyiv, the Ukrainian government needed weapons, and quickly. So its Ministry of Defense made a desperate and unlikely phone call. |
Tesla's surprise turnover in the CFO chair is yet another reminder of a looming challenge facing Elon Musk in preparing the company for the next generation: succession. Zach Kirkhorn, by many accounts, had been a calming influence at the electric-vehicle maker following years of turbulence surrounding the mercurial leader. |
BY MARK THIESSEN, ED KOMENDA AND AUDREY MCAVOY |
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Leshia Wright heard the crackle of the fast-moving inferno closing in on her home in Lahaina and decided it was time to evacuate. The 66-year-old grabbed her medication for a pulmonary disease and her passport and fled the subdivision in the historic Hawaii oceanside community just minutes before flames engulfed the neighborhood. Hours later, she called family members and told them she slept in her car. |
NEW YORK — Every day Bojana Milekic, a critical care doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital, scrolls through a computer screen of patient names, looking at the red numbers beside them — a score generated by artificial intelligence — to assess who might die. On a morning in May, the tool flagged a 74-year-old lung patient with a score of .81 — far past the .65 score when doctors start to worry. He didn't seem to be in pain, but he gripped his daughter's hand as Milekic began to work. She circled his bed, soon spotting the issue: A kinked chest tube was retaining fluid from his lungs, causing his blood oxygen levels to plummet. |
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