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Alabama voters are again selecting candidates for four Congressional districts after the state changed the district map to favor Republicans. The redistricting is causing confusion among voters.
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump backs data centers as Texas sets new standards President Trump is touting the benefits of AI data centers after Texas moved to more strictly regulate the industry, which has rapidly become a political lightning rod across the political spectrum. ©…
Unscripted television producer Rachel Tung has renewed her development deal with ABC and Hulu, Variety has reported exclusively. Under the extended agreement, Tung will continue creating original unscripted programming for Disney and will serve as showrunner on selected projects for the two networks, cementing her role as one…
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump struggles to gain leverage with Iran America’s depleted arsenal of premier offensive and defensive weapons is undermining President Trump’s leverage with Iran. © Natasha Kaiser The military’s supply…
Democrat Roy Cooper has a healthy lead over Republican Michael Whatley in the North Carolina Senate race, according to a new poll. Half of the 915 respondents to the Carolina Forward survey, conducted by left-leaning Change Research, backed Cooper with less than three months before the general election.…
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has escalated his scrutiny of Dr Anthony Fauci after texts released from the former COVID-19 response coordinator's government phone showed Fauci privately raising concerns that mRNA vaccines administered during the first trimester of pregnancy could potentially cause miscarriages. Johnson, who is leading the investigation,…
A record number of migrants – 230 people – crossed the English Channel in a single crossing aboard an oversized 49-foot dinghy, described as carrying more passengers than a Boeing 737 aircraft. The crossing marks a significant escalation in the small boats crisis, prompting criticism that Labour's "smash…
Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, has said England's high streets have been "hollowed out" by "decades of decline" and pledged to clamp down on the proliferation of vaping shops and bookmakers on local shopping parades. He argues that the unchecked spread of such outlets has contributed…
Andy Burnham has announced plans to give councils greater powers to block new betting shops and vape stores as part of a government drive to revive Britain's declining high streets. The changes will scrap the "aim to permit" rule, introduced under Tony Blair's gambling law reforms in 2005,…
A poll suggests Ohio congressman Max Miller, a Trump-endorsed Republican, could lose his previously safe seat after allegations that he abused his ex-wife, claims first reported by the Daily Mail and denied by Miller. The survey found Democratic challenger Brian Poindexter leading Miller by eight points in Ohio's…