US Citizenship and Immigration Services finalized sweeping new H-1B regulations overhauling eligibility standards for the primary visa program used by skilled foreign workers in the US. The H-1B work visa has been criticized as too complicated and susceptible to abuse. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Excited to reveal this year's @thehill.com's Changemakers! Agree or disagree with them, our 24 of 2024 Changemakers are steering the convo, smashing barriers, and blazing paths at the Capitol and around the world.

Empower, the ride-hailing start-up, has become a serious rival to Uber and Lyft in Washington, D.C. It now does 100,000 rides in the city each week, good for 10% of the local market, a larger share than the city’s taxis.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi "sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation." @thehill.com

Tulsi Gabbard is struggling through her meetings w/ senators, sources told The Hill, highlighting the difficult path she faces in winning confirmation to be director of national intelligence. But the Trump transition pushed back on reporting that Gabbard is struggling in her meetings. @thehill.com

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Republican senators who last week looked like they might be wavering on Trump's Pete Hegseth pick sent a different signal on Monday. In between, there was pressure from the MAGA movement. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was spotted walking back to his Capitol office followed by a medical team after he fell following a Republican lunch meeting Tuesday. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Love when I go on vacation and come back to find that the entire newsroom has moved from Slack to Teams. Struggle is real this Monday.

Live updates: 26-year-old suspect named in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s shooting thehill.com/homenews/503...

Somewhere over the Atlantic.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s embattled pick for Defense secretary, faced growing scrutiny from Republican senators after a new set of revelations over the weekend involving allegations of alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct in his past. thehill.com/policy/defen...

It’s been FIVE YEARS to the day since a man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19…

President Biden announced Sunday he signed a pardon for his son, Hunter, arguing the charges against his son were brought for political reasons. trib.al/CaB1Aca

This story knocked the wind out of me and i hope esquire paid this man. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Woke up in New Delhi.

President-elect Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles says the Trump-Vance transition team has signed a memorandum of understanding the Biden- Harris administration.

A view that never gets old.

The Israeli government is expected to shortly announce its agreement to a cease-fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon that will begin Wednesday morning, according to a source familiar in The Hill.

It’s official! The launch of the new Press Freedom Center today at the National Press Club once again showed how important it is to support and strive for a future where journalists are free to operate independently and freely.

Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked a judge to dismiss Trump’s Jan. 6 criminal case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... “This prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated.”

The new Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club launches today! The Center will focus on campaigns advocating the release of detained journalists, support for those exiled from their home countries, and assisting US journalists and news organizations. www.press.org/newsroom/pre...

Republican senators are squirming over the rash of sexual misconduct allegations against President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks, which they fear will become a focal point of Senate confirmation hearings next year.

It’s such a beautiful day in DC today.

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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz said he was withdrawing from consideration as President-elect Trump’s nomination to be attorney general.

President-elect Trump has tapped Karoline Leavitt, the top spokesperson for his 2024 campaign, to be his White House press secretary when he takes office in January.

Speaker Johnson urges Ethics panel not to release Gaetz report. “I do not, no,” Mike Johnson told reporters when asked if the panel should release its report. “I think it’s a terrible breach of protocol and tradition and the spirit of the rule.”

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