BY MIKE LILLIS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
After months of delay, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is poised to step formally into the perilous debate over Ukraine aid — an explosive topic that carries high stakes for both the future of Kyiv's sovereignty and the fate of Johnson's Speakership.
Since taking the gavel in October, Johnson has vowed to move another round of military help for Ukraine's beleaguered forces in their fight against Russia. But the issue has taken a back seat to domestic concerns with hard deadlines, including efforts to fund the government and renew Washington's foreign surveillance powers. |
|
|
Former President Trump threw his support behind Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — one of Trump's closest allies on Capitol Hill — threatens to force a vote on ousting the House leader. Asked during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago if he supports Greene's motion to vacate, Trump — while standing beside Johnson — said the Speaker is "doing a very good job." |
|
|
Former President Trump described the upcoming jury selection in his first criminal trial as "largely luck" on Friday. Trump was asked about his hush money trial that begins on Monday in New York at a press conference alongside Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at Mar-a-Lago. "Jury selection is largely luck," the former president said. "It depends who you get. It's very unfair that I'm having a trial there." |
|
|
BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND ELLA LEE |
A New York judge on Friday tossed one of former President Trump's final remaining pathways to avoid his imminent hush money trial, rejecting his bid to delay the proceedings over "prejudicial" pretrial media coverage. Judge Juan Merchan ruled that Trump's trial will go forward Monday with jury selection, rejecting defense arguments that the barrage of media coverage around the trial has prejudiced potential jurors. |
|
|
BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
The House in a bipartisan vote reauthorized the nation's warrantless surveillance powers Friday, approving the program for another two years even as lawmakers narrowly declined to attach an amendment that would require a warrant for some searches. The chamber cleared the bill — which will extend and reform Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — in a 273-147 vote. |
|
| Hard-line conservatives are turning up the heat on their GOP colleagues who voted Friday to kill a proposed warrant requirement for domestic communications caught up in foreign surveillance operations. That provision — offered as an amendment to a larger bill renewing a key section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — went down on the House floor in a 212-212 vote, with 86 Republicans and 126 Democrats voting against it. By House rules, a tie vote fails. |
|
|
Americans told to avoid travel within Israel, U.S. troops and warships moved to positions in the Middle East, and a warning from President Biden of a "sooner than later" attack has Washington on edge over a possible Iranian retaliation strike on the ally country this weekend, a move that could trigger a regional war. Western intelligence on Friday assessed that Israel was bracing itself for a major attack from Iran that could come as soon as Saturday, Bloomberg reported, a judgment that appeared to be backed by U.S. troops and warships moved to positions in the Middle East and a warning from Biden. |
|
| President Biden is pouring a tremendous amount of political capital into student loan relief ahead of the November election, and experts say the impact in key states could be crucial.
"The swing states are going to be kind of where we look to see the biggest targeted return, states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan," said Michael Hopkins, CEO of Northern Starr Strategies. |
|
|
A federal judge in Delaware declined to dismiss gun charges against Hunter Biden Friday, rejecting several challenges from President Biden's son claiming he is being prosecuted for political purposes. The younger Biden filed a series of motions late last year, accusing special counsel David Weiss of buckling "under political pressure" in bringing the case against him. |
|
|
OPINION | The primaries season has come to a rapid conclusion. Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have garnered enough delegates from their respective parties to secure their nomination to run for president. Yet many Americans are unhappy with these choices, particularly those under 30 years of age. However, the system used to determine who will be on the ballot has spoken, no matter how flawed such a system may be. |
OPINION | Facebook (now Meta) raised international eyebrows in 2016 when it sought to dismiss a lawsuit by a 14-year-old girl from Northern Ireland whose nude image was uploaded without her consent to a so-called "shame page." It was a curious move by an organization that claims to take these issues seriously. |
|
|
BY CHARLIE SAVAGE, JULIAN E. BARNES AND ALAN FEUER |
Even as president, Donald J. Trump flaunted his animosity for intelligence officials, portraying them as part of a politicized "deep state" out to get him. And since he left office, that distrust has grown into outright hostility, with potentially serious implications for national security should he be elected again. |
BY GORDON LUBOLD, BENOIT FAUCON AND DOV LIEBER |
The U.S. rushed warships into position to protect Israel and American forces in the region, hoping to head off a direct attack from Iran on Israel that could come as soon as this weekend. |
BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER |
HONOLULU (AP) — Several people on the Hawaiian island of Kauai needed to be rescued from floodwaters during heavy rain, authorities said Friday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. |
BY ISABELL KHURSHUDYAN AND SERHII KOROLCHUK |
KYIV — As Ukrainian officials plead for more Western arms and a U.S. aid package remains stalled in Congress, Russia is advancing on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, seizing new territory and intensifying attacks to capture the town of Chasiv Yar and others in the Donetsk region. |
|
|
The Hill's Evening Report |
Introducing Evening Report, the perfect complement to Morning Report and 12:30 Report to catch you up on news throughout the week. Click here to sign up. |
| |
1625 K Street NW, 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20006 | © 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. |
|
|
|
If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please safely unsubscribe.
No comments:
Post a Comment