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The 28-year-old who shot and killed three students and three staff members at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., texted an acquaintance before the shooting that she was “planning to die today,” ABC News reported Tuesday. Paige Patton, a Nashville radio host known by the name Averianna, told the outlet that Audrey Hale texted her...

California will soon be able to penalize oil companies that engage in “price gouging” behaviors, after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law on Tuesday evening. “We proved that we could actually beat Big Oil,” the governor said at a press conference before signing the legislation. “There’s a new sheriff in town in California,...

Former Vice President Pence said he has “nothing to hide” after a federal judge reportedly ruled that he must testify in front of the federal grand jury investigating former President Trump’s actions on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection. “Let me be clear, I have nothing to hide,” Pence said in an interview with...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story McCarthy lays out areas of negotiation for debt talks The House GOP Speaker raised several possible areas Republicans could back in debt limit talks with the White House, as the party seeks to dial up the...

Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story US vulnerable to another infant formula shortage House lawmakers on Tuesday heard from former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials on potential measures that could prevent future shortages, with one witness warning that a single crisis could spur another....

Former Vice President Pence said he would not mind lawmakers having access to the classified documents that were found at his Indiana home earlier this year, as a bipartisan group of senators have lobbied federal investigators to let them review the material. “I would have no objection whatsoever to (Sen. Mark Warner) seeing the documents,”...

Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Dozens of Democrats call for stronger air pollution rules A total of 88 House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday said the Biden administration's proposed standards for soot air pollution are not stringent enough. © Greg Nash,...

Election administrators called on lawmakers Tuesday to increase federal support ahead of 2024 elections as threats and violence against election workers increase. One in six election officials have experienced some kind of threat, said Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), chair of the Senate Rules Committee, citing a 2022 poll conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice. ...

The recent attempts to erase and further criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in Uganda casts a shadow over all democracies, but especially those who have aggressively sought to silence the LGBTI community. A key tenet of democracy is representation for all citizens. If a country wishes to be recognized as a...

President Biden on Tuesday called on Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Republicans to release a budget proposal before lawmakers leave for Easter recess at the end of the week, reiterating that he would meet with McCarthy once his conference has done so. “My hope is that House Republicans can present the American public with...

President Biden on Tuesday said he hopes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “walks away from” plans to pursue reforms to the country’s judiciary, which has drawn criticism from U.S. officials and sparked protests and work stoppages in Israel. "Like many strong supporters of Israel, I'm very concerned, and I'm concerned that they get this straight....

President Biden on Tuesday spoke to the Nashville police chief and two Metro police officers who responded to the elementary school shooting the day prior, thanking them for their response. The president talked to officers Michael Collazo and Rex Engelbert, the police officers who have been credited with confronting and killing the shooter. Biden thanked...