The Day Lebanon Burned

In June, the US Supreme Court voted 6-3 to allow states to ban homeless people from sleeping outside. This decision has put thousands of unhoused families in danger, exacerbating a crisis for which both political parties are to blame.

The attacks mark the deadliest day of conflict in Lebanon since October, as Israel warned civilians to evacuate from places near where it asserts Hezbollah stores weapons.

Lebanon’s health ministry says Israeli strikes killed more than 490 Lebanese, including more than 90 women and children.

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The state has an odd rule that gave Biden an electoral vote in 2020. Trump wants to change that. So far, he’s failed.

The former president slammed the feds as too corrupt to hold his would-be assassin accountable.

Amer Ghalib, the mayor of the first U.S. city to have all-Muslim city councilmembers, has officially endorsed GOP nominee Donald Trump for president.

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The president’s support for the working poor was wildly popular. But he left much of his predecessors’ policies in place, and corruption, violence and impunity remain rampant.

Lebanon’s health ministry says 492 killed, including 35 children and 58 women. More than 1,600 wounded. Israel says 1,300 Hezbollah assets struck.

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Pentagon ups US troops to Middle East The U.S. is sending a “small number” of ground troops to the Middle East as a larger war between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to break out, the Pentagon announced...

Californians will no longer have the option to choose between paper or plastic shopping bags at the register when they check out from grocery stores thanks to a new rule that was signed into law on Sunday by Governor Gavin Newsom.

On Saturday, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced his plan to end the migrant crisis should he win his re-election bid.

Israel called for civilians in Lebanon to evacuate or move away from places it says could be storing weapons for Hezbollah.

Vowing deportations and spreading conspiracies about migrants packs more political punch, GOP strategists say.

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) called Vice President Harris "the biggest threat to religious liberty we've had in at least a generation" during a campaign event in North Carolina, and he suggested the administration was an "opponent" of individual freedoms. "Now let's just run through a number of ways in which the Kamala Harris administration has...

Gov. Newsom signed the Phone-Free Schools Act into law. It requires California school districts to draft policies restricting or banning student cellphone use.

The crowd at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania, on Monday erupted into cheers as Breitbart News’s Jon Kahn’s song, “Fighter,” played.

Lebanon’s health ministry says 492 killed, including 35 children and 58 women. More than 1,600 wounded. Israel says 1,300 Hezbollah assets struck.

Former President Trump on Monday told a crowd of supporters in Pennsylvania that he doesn't like anybody who doesn't like him, joking that it was a "personality defect." The former president went on a lengthy rant about late night hosts, bashing NBC's Jimmy Fallon and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, who frequently mock Trump. He then spoke...

State Sen. Mike McDonnell is the key vote standing in the way of a Trump-backed push to change the state’s electoral college rules.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration Monday after it declared a rare lizard endangered earlier this year. Paxton, a Republican, is suing the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Biden administration officials after the agencies declared the dunes sagebrush lizard was endangered. He argued that the groups...

Former President Trump on Monday told women he would protect them if he is elected and attacked his opponent, Vice President Harris, as "very dumb" during a rally in the key battleground of Pennsylvania. Trump at one point sought to directly address the women in the audience as polls have shown him trailing Harris with...

TikTok has removed accounts on the platform linked to Russian media groups for engaging in what it calls “covert influence operations” ahead of the 2024 U.S. election. The video-streaming platform announced Monday it had removed accounts associated with parent companies Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti for violating its community guidelines. TikTok did not list which specific...

But economists say the moves are unlikely to be enough to repair a broken housing market or pull the economy out of a deflationary rut.

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President Biden is beginning to acknowledge that he is running out of time to help forge a cease-fire and hostage deal with Hamas, his aides say.

The actress said a cat that can “feel the sun on her face” and run through a park has more rights than Afghan girls and women under stricter Taliban laws.

Israel urged civilians to evacuate parts of eastern Lebanon it says are linked to Hezbollah. Fearing a wider war, world leaders are scrambling to cool tensions.

China’s central bank announced an unusually broad package that signals growing unease in Beijing after a run of downbeat numbers on jobs, spending and inflation.

Israel urged civilians to evacuate parts of eastern Lebanon it says are linked to Hezbollah. Fearing a wider war, world leaders are scrambling to cool tensions.

A senior administration official said Mr. Biden's speech to the United Nations will be a chance to "review" some of his foreign policy objectives.

The country’s regulator found that Woolworths and Coles hiked the price of Oreos, Kleenex and other staples before cutting them to create “illusory” discounts.

The Israeli attacks have killed hundreds, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, and prompted fears of war on another front as fighting persists in Gaza.

Voters in a record number of states — including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada — are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

Authorities say it’s not clear what is happening to the children once they are smuggled into the US — but many are vulnerable to being exploited for child labor and child sex trafficking.

Three years ago, the Pro-Choice Caucus had no full-time staffers. Now, the group has two on its payroll — led by Executive Director Aviva Abusch — a change that reflects the increased focus on women’s reproductive rights in the political arena. Abortion rights have emerged as a key issue since the Supreme Court struck down...

Apollo Quiboloy was arrested in the Philippines, accused of leading a global sex trafficking conspiracy, which he denies. In California, his church is also in hot water.

Defense officials say the additional U.S. forces will be on standby if the fighting threatens Americans and evacuations are needed.

Health Minister Firass Abiad told reporters Tuesday that that 1,835 people were wounded during the same period and were taken to 54 hospitals around Lebanon.

Key election officials say they’re prepared to certify 2024 presidential election results if county governments go rogue.

The death toll from a massive Israeli bombardment climbed to nearly 560 people and thousands fled from southern Lebanon with the two sides on the brink of all-out war.

At least 558 killed in Lebanon and thousands flee as IDF ramps up airstrikes against the militant group

The law is clear that if a person becomes a combatant, he is a legitimate military target.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refers to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris as "Comrade Kamala" and suggests that she is a communist and Marxist, but if he had to call her something, he should have tagged her as a socialist, as her major policy proposals are almost identical to those promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America.

Thousands flee from southern Lebanon with Israel and the Hezbollah militant group on the brink of all-out war.

Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday evening that he has a “feeling” Vice President Harris will win the election in November. “I don’t like to predict elections. I would just say, this just doesn’t feel like a race that Harris is gonna lose,” Carville told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on “AC360.” “But that’s just a feeling....

Romney has good reason to fear Trump’s vengeance.

We are headed for the home stretch to Election Day. Those polls are telling us the real story of the campaign so far — but are we willing to listen?

Voters in a record number of states — including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada — are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

The Secret Service must balance the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights during protective missions.

Amazon's decision to require corporate employees to return to the office five days a week is generating controversy, as research suggests that hybrid work models are more effective for productivity, employee performance, and retention.

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New York City has a well known rat problem. And the city is trying to tackle it — with trash cans and by changing human behavior.

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The Framers’ Electoral College design offered no mechanism for elevating the popular vote loser to the presidency.

Conflicts that started on his watch have no clear end in sight.

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The vice presidential debate scheduled for next Tuesday between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) will be the most important such meeting in U.S. history, according to one presidential historian. "I know everybody is waiting on Pennsylvania, North Carolina is really interesting, that Harris has a chance of winning there, but the big moment is October...

A senior administration official said President Biden's speech before the United Nations General Assembly will be a chance to "review" some of his foreign policy objectives.

Gazan officials reported fewer strikes since Israel stepped up bombardments across Lebanon. Displaced Gazans sympathized with Lebanon but feared being sidelined.

The U.N. General Assembly is beginning in New York City as devastating conflicts rage across the world. President Biden is speaking.

President Joe Biden will defend his legacy and robust U.S. involvement in the world, in a farewell speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

Israel urged civilians to evacuate parts of eastern Lebanon linked to Hezbollah. Monday was the deadliest single day of conflict in Lebanon since its 15-year civil war.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said Tuesday that Israel will not give Hezbollah a break from attack, as Israeli Air Force (IAF) warplanes launched a third wave of attacks in Lebanon.

The annual income buyers need to afford a house fell for the first time since 2020, driven by the first annual decline in mortgage rates in three years. Homebuyers need to earn $115,454 per year to afford a typical home, down 1.4 percent from a year ago, according to a new report by the real...

Climate change is not the same type of threat as terrorism or state aggression, and it is much more susceptible to methodical scientific analysis and mitigation.

He made his final address at UNGA as president of the United States.

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says he went to Springfield, Ohio, and did not see any evidence that migrants were eating pets, as former President Trump and some of his allies have claimed. During an appearance Tuesday morning on CNN, Ramaswamy was asked directly about claims that Haitian migrants in the city are eating...

President Biden said in what’s likely his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that he thinks “every day” about the 13 Americans who died in a suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport — as Secretary of…

Vice President Harris has a small lead over former President Trump in Michigan, a new survey shows, but the results are within the margin of error. The poll, conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University, found Harris leading with 48 percent to Trump’s 45 percent. The results are within the poll’s 4.4 percent margin of...

Samantha Gangewere claimed her nail artist’s cousin was paid to take part in protests by the Harris campaign. The outlandish story made it onto the former president’s social media.

Severe obesity is becoming a bigger problem in the United States, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The data found that the prevalence of severe obesity in adults increased two percent within the last decade, rising from 7.7 percent to 9.7 percent. There was no significant change in...

"Some things are more important than staying in power," he told world leaders.

Donald Trump told Breitbart News that he believes Oprah Winfrey was “embarrassed by” Kamala Harris’s lack of preparation on major issues.

Much of the Gulf Coast of Florida was placed under hurricane, storm surge and tropical storm watches ahead of an expected landfall Thursday.

Apollo Quiboloy was arrested in the Philippines, accused of leading a global sex trafficking conspiracy, which he denies. In California, his church is also in hot water.

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President Biden on Tuesday bid farewell to the United Nations, highlighting the ongoing global turmoil and need for peace in an address to wrap his decades of foreign policy work. The president, during his remarks at the session of the UN General Assembly in New York, recounted his decision to not run for reelection, calling...

Israel and Hezbollah traded fire again on Tuesday — including a new Israeli airstrike on Beirut — as the death toll from a massive Israeli bombardment climbed to nearly 560 people and thousands fled from southern Lebanon with the two sides on the brink of all-out war.

The son of alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested Tuesday morning on child pornography charges after the feds found hundreds of sick images when they searched his phone following his dad’s arrest. Oran Routh is…

The Israeli military launched dozens more airstrikes following the worst bout of bloodshed between Israel and Hezbollah since their monthlong conflict in 2006.

Donald Trump has spent the last several months speaking with popular male influencers and podcasters like Logan Paul and Theo Von. The appearances are part of a strategy to turn out young men.

Thousands flee as at least 558 people have died; IDF claims to have killed a senior Hezbollah commander during strikes targeting the militant group

Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre reveals he has Parkinson’s disease during a congressional hearing.

Actor Sam Elliot, known for his deep and resonant voice, urged Americans to back Vice President Harris’s presidential bid in a new ad released Monday by The Lincoln Project. The celebrated Western actor narrated the approximately one-minute ad, called “Choose Change,” a title illustrating Harris's effort to present herself as the change candidate in the...

Tensions are at breaking point after recent attacks which have killed hundreds.

Billionaire Mark Cuban went after former President Trump on Monday evening for a recent threat he made about John Deere and tariffs. On Monday, the former president threatened John Deere with large tariffs on its products in the case it outsources part of its manufacturing to Mexico. “I just noticed behind me John Deere tractors....

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Hurricane Helene could "rapidly intensify" to a Category 3 storm, forecasters say.

The White House announced on Tuesday it supports the passage of the short-term funding measure that would keep the government open until Dec. 20. The White House said in a Statement of Administration Policy that the measure would keep the government open and “give the Congress more time to complete full-year funding bills later this...

Tropical Storm Helene​ is forecast to rapidly intensify into a Category 3 storm and strike the Florida coast.

The UN has three months to reach a deal on plastic pollution.

A state of emergency has been declared for Florida's Panhandle and Big Bend ahead of potentially devastating storm surge, high winds and heavy rain.

Donald Trump’s cruel border policies sparked an outpouring of popular compassion for migrants, which Democrats made central to their 2020 platform. Now the Biden administration and the Kamala Harris campaign have embraced Trump’s xenophobic premises.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and other top Democrats are convening a hearing Tuesday to voice shared concerns about the conservative policy agenda known as Project 2025. Democrats have characterized the platform as an extension of the views of former President Trump, although he has disavowed any direct connection with the agenda. Nonetheless, opponents...

State laws requiring public funds to be invested with financial institutions focused on financial performance have debunked the myth that such laws increase costs, as other states without such laws experienced the same cost increases due to broader market factors.

A Republican commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) offered a searing critique of the agency’s work under Democratic Chair Gary Gensler on Tuesday, as Gensler defended his tenure during a joint appearance of all five commissioners before Congress.  SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, whose name has been floated as Gensler’s potential successor under a...

Israel urged civilians to evacuate parts of eastern Lebanon linked to Hezbollah. Monday was the deadliest single day of conflict in Lebanon since its 15-year civil war.

The two men are famous for very different reasons, but they have ended up in the same place behind bars.

Several Gold Star family members whose loved ones were killed in the 2021 airport Kabul Airport suicide bombing during the withdrawal from Afghanistan were underwhelmed by President Biden’s Tuesday remarks about the 13 service members killed in that…

"I want to be your protector," Trump said to women on Monday.

The switch would have likely benefitted Trump.

The Justice Department sued Visa on Tuesday, accusing the credit card company of illegally maintaining a monopoly over the debit market.  The DOJ argues that Visa has limited competition by entering into exclusive agreements with merchants and banks that force most or all of their transactions to run on Visa’s network.  It also allegedly paid-off or...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency intervention in order to get his name back on New York’s presidential ballots.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stressed that there would be sacrifices and compromises before there would be “light at the end of this tunnel.”

Democrats would need to keep control of the Senate to change rules affecting the filibuster.

Hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and his former bodyguard drugged, bound and violently raped a woman in 2001 — in a vicious attack he filmed and showed to friends, a bombshell new lawsuit claims. In court papers filed Tuesday, Thalia Graves…

But a normal polling error could also result in one candidate winning easily.

Families packed into cars as they fled southern Lebanon, while Israel said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a targeted strike in Beirut.

Maryland on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against the owners and managers of the Dali, the ship that crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this year, killing six workers and temporarily shutting down one of the busiest ports in the country. According to a press release from Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) and Attorney...

The vice president said on Tuesday that she supported scrapping the procedure to protect abortion rights.

Forecasters say soon-to-be Hurricane Helene could undergo a Fujiwhara "interaction" with another storm over the south-central US.

President Biden will address the Bloomberg Global Business Forum on Tuesday in observance of Climate Week. The remarks are expected to review the efforts his administration has made to address the climate crisis, which a White House statement described as a record of "unprecedented progress." Clean energy development and the link between climate stewardship and...

Anchor Jeff Glor is leaving CBS News amid widespread layoffs implemented by the outlet's parent company, according to multiple reports. Glor, who currently presides over a Saturday morning new program on CBS, has been with the network since 2007 and once served as anchor of "CBS Evening News." Glor is leaving CBS' news division as...

What’s happened in the polls after the debate — and the implications for the Electoral College.

The embattled head of New York City schools is expected to step down as Mayor Eric Adams’ administration contends with a leadership shakeup in the face of swirling federal investigations. David Banks will retire from his post as the…

The changes come as the German bank continues a battle with UniCredit over its future.

GOP nominee for vice president, JD Vance, has been preparing for his upcoming debate with Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz by working with Rep. Tom Emmer, who has taken on the role of imitating Walz while giving Vance back-and-forth responses of what he might say.

After almost a year of trading fire, Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are now engaged in ferocious confrontations that threaten to turn into a full-blown war.

{beacon} Evening Report   © AP Photo/Richard Drew Biden's United Nations farewell address underscores election stakes President Biden addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday for the final time as president, underscoring the divergent paths the nation faces in the November election as global tensions rise. A new survey from the nonpartisan Institute for...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the Council members to sustain their backing for his country’s resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Kamala Harris called to end the filibuster over abortion, a move that has far greater implications for the balance of power in the U.S.

A U.S. Navy refueling ship has been damaged during an incident in the Middle East, the Navy said on Tuesday. A Navy official told The Hill that the USNS Big Horn, a replenishment oiler, "sustained damage while operating at sea" overnight on Monday in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility that covers the Middle East....

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In two damning reports published Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office unraveled what went wrong with college financial aid this year.

Senate Republicans say they will allow a short-term government funding bill to pass in the next few days, instead of using it as a bargaining chip to force vulnerable Democrats to vote on a proposal demanded by former President Trump to reform voter registration rules. Trump had called on Republican lawmakers to allow government funding...

In a bipartisan vote, the House approved a forestry bill opposed by the Biden administration. The vote was 268-151. Fifty-five Democrats voted with Republicans in favor of the bill. The legislation seeks to exempt projects like cutting down trees in an effort to prevent wildfires from environmental reviews. Proponents of the bill say it will...

The USNS Big Horn was damaged in the Middle East when it suffered an undisclosed “incident” and began to flood.

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A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted the man accused of showing up at one of former President Trump’s golf courses with a rifle on charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate.  Ryan Routh, 58, now faces a total of five charges. The indictment marks a significant escalation in the case and comes after...

Hezbollah has confirmed the death of one of its top commanders, Ibrahim Kobeisi, who was killed in an Israeli strike in a southern Beirut suburb.

Routh is being held without bail following his arrest Sept. 15 outside a Trump golf course in Florida.

Argentine President Javier Milei used his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver an enthusiastic condemnation of “globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda” and warn that the U.N. flagship Agenda 2030 is a threat to global freedom.

Routh is being held without bail following his arrest Sept. 15 outside a Trump golf course in Florida.

Israel has killed a top Hezbollah commander as part of a two-day bombing campaign that has left more than 560 people dead and prompted thousands in southern Lebanon to seek refuge from the widening conflict.

Vice President Harris and Former President Trump have agreed to two separate town halls in October hosted by Univision. Journalist Enrique Acevedo will field audience questions from undecided Hispanic voters. Trump will be the first to take the stage on Oct. 8 in Miami followed by Harris’s event in Las Vegas on Oct. 10. Both...

Routh is being held without bail following his arrest Sept. 15 outside a Trump golf course in Florida.

Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was arrested last week on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, is being detained in the same federal detention center as disgraced former crypto exec Sam Bankman-Fried, according to three sources familiar with the case told NBC New York.

He was initially charged with firearms offenses. The upgraded charges reflect the DOJ's conclusion that he plotted to kill Donald Trump.

The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not connect him to the case.