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Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story  How a popular podcast waded into politics Alex Cooper’s ultra-popular podcast, “Call Her Daddy,” featured a not-so-typical guest: Vice President Harris. © Chris Carlson, Charles Krupa, and Evan Vucci, Associated Press Harris is one of the few, if not the only, politicians to...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet with his Israeli counterpart, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, at the Pentagon on Wednesday as the U.S. ally mulls how to respond to last week’s Iranian attack.  The visit is Gallant’s third to Washington, D.C., since Hamas attacked Israel a year ago, sparking a war in the Gaza Strip...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Supreme Court won’t take up Texas emergency abortion case The court declined to take up an appeal of a decision involving emergency abortions in Texas, letting stand a ruling that allows the state to deny abortions that violate...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called for a halt in deliveries of arms used in Gaza to Israel, adding that France was not sending arms to Israel. "I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to fight in Gaza," Macron said in an...

Former President Trump returned to the site of a July assassination attempt on Saturday, rallying with thousands of supporters in Butler, Pa., and honoring a supporter who was killed that day. Trump had said he felt an “obligation” to return to Butler, and he was joined Saturday by several high-profile guests and allies, including Elon...

Vice President Harris's running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), slammed Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) at a campaign event near the senator's hometown on Saturday, saying that former President Trump's running mate does not reflect the "integrity" of the people in the state. “He is not a reflection on the integrity of the people of...

Tech mogul Elon Musk, appearing alongside former President Trump at his rally in Butler, Pa., railed against Democrats, claiming the party wanted to take away basic rights from citizens. Democrats want to "take away your freedom of speech, they want to take away your right to bear arms, they want to take away your right...

Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), the Democratic vice presidential nominee, will join Fox News Sunday for his first solo interview on Oct. 6 at 2:00 p.m. according to a Saturday announcement. The outlet said Shannon Bream will ask him about the state of the race, the September vice presidential debate and other news of the day. ...

Former Capitol Hill Police Officer Winston Pingeon recalled the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters breached the Capitol in an apparent attempt to stop Congress’s certification of the Electoral College results, in an interview with ABC News. "It's hard to relive and talk about moments like this. I had that moment right there that I...

Former New York Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.) and his stepson Anthony Sliwa were attacked near their Upper East Side home on Friday night.   Five unidentified young suspects left the former governor and his son with injuries to the face and head, noted the New York Police Department in a post on X. The suspects were...

Former President Trump is returning Saturday to Butler, Pa., nearly three months after a bullet grazed his ear at the same site in an attempted assassination. “We never finished what we were supposed to do," Trump told NewsNation last month, when announcing the rally. "And I said that I said that day when I was...

Hurricane Helene has thrown up new hurdles for voters and election officials alike in Georgia and North Carolina, threatening disruptions to the voting process in two of the most critical battleground states. Flooding, stormy conditions and power outages have displaced residents, interrupted postal services and impacted election offices across the Southeast. The fallout could complicate...

Vice President Harris on Saturday traveled to North Carolina to meet with local officials and get an update on the response to Hurricane Helene, which killed dozens of people in the state amid catastrophic flooding. Harris met with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell, Charlotte Mayor Vi...

Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, encouraged lawmakers to focus on making the internet a safer place for users during a Saturday appearance on CNN. “There are people who are championing it, but it’s been a long and difficult road to getting anything done,” Clinton said, crediting California and New York for enacting social media...

The Biden administration announced Saturday that it would be sending $100 million to help the North Carolina Department of Transportation pay for immediate emergency repairs from Hurricane Helene damage, according to a press release. “Working in close coordination with North Carolina, we are providing this initial round of funding so there’s no delay getting roads...

Tensions in the Middle East have heightened as the Israel-Hamas war hits its one-year mark and fears surrounding a wider regional conflict grow, and former President Trump and Vice President Harris are neck-and-neck as they continue to campaign with only 31 days until the 2024 presidential election. Both topics are likely to be discussed in...

Veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville said the 2024 White House election between former President Trump and Vice President Harris is a “long way from decided.” CNN’s host Michael Smerconish asked Carville, the architect of Bill Clinton’s winning 1992 presidential campaign, why Harris, the Democratic nominee, is not ahead in the contest if the economy,...

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said Hurricane Helene victims “don’t have time” for politics but are in need of support in rebuilding damaged communities in a Saturday appearance on NewsNation.  “North Carolina has been hit. They've been devastated. They need help and they don't have time for politics. No one does,” said Cammack.  She also made...

Former President Trump said in an interview that he told Melania Trump that she's "got to write what you believe" regarding her apparent pro-choice stance on abortion in her memoir that's set to release next week. "We spoke about it. And I said, you have to write what you believe. I’m not going to tell...

Former President Trump slammed President Biden for saying that Israel should not target Iranian nuclear sites, arguing the commander-in-chief's remark was "not the right answer." “I mean, that's the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. That's the biggest risk we have. The biggest risk we have is nuclear,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News'...

Reality star mogul Kim Kardashian said in a personal essay published by NBC News on Thursday that the court case of the Menendez brothers, who were charged with first-degree murder in the 90s in connection with the murder of their parents, should be "reconsidered." "We owe it to those little boys who lost their childhoods,...

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested that Donald Trump's presidency would have prevented Russia from invading Ukraine in 2022. Johnson said that Ukraine’s resistance is “absolutely existential for freedom and democracy” and the Eastern European country’s fall would be an “absolute catastrophe.” He then stated that Trump “understands that.” "I don't think that he...

President Biden on Thursday hailed the agreement made between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) to end the port strike, arguing that collective bargaining works and is essential to the economy. “Today’s tentative agreement on a record wage and an extension of the collective bargaining process represents critical progress...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) made a campaign appearance Thursday in Ripon, Wis., known as the birthplace of the Republican Party, with Vice President Harris, a pairing of a former House GOP leader drummed out of her party by supporters of former President Trump with the Democratic presidential nominee. Cheney introduced Harris at a rally on Thursday...