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Christmas is in the air at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, with first lady Jill Biden on Monday welcoming the White House Christmas tree to kick off the holidays.

Holding the hand of her 2-year-old grandson, Beau, the first lady exclaimed, “I love the tree!”

A pair of Clydesdale horses brought the 20-year-old concolor fir — which was grown in Pennsylvania — by carriage to the steps of the White House.

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The man suspected of killing five people and injuring 25 others at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., is facing murder and hate crimes charges.

Saudi officials have denied reports the kingdom is backtracking on planned cuts to oil production after The Wall Street Journal reported Riyadh is mulling an increase.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is closing the once-yawning polling gap with former President Trump as he inches closer to a 2024 White House bid, a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey shared exclusively with The Hill finds.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is expected to become chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee next year, said the panel would not prioritize the investigation into classified documents seized at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as it instead eyes a number of other probes once the GOP takes the majority.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has joined dozens of other lawmakers in slamming a message from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) mourning the victims of a deadly shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado this weekend.

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is coming down strongly on the side of those who think President Biden should run for a second White House term in 2024.

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) has launched a bid to lead the Democrats’ messaging arm in the next Congress, ending his pursuit of the caucus chairmanship and clearing the way for Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) to fill that spot next year. 

Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal expects former President Trump to be indicted by the special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice to oversee two federal investigations.

Cervical cancer rates among millennial women rose by 2.5 percent each year from 2012 to 2019, reversing years of declining incidence in this age group, new data show. 

Michael Bass, a top programming executive at CNN, is leaving the outlet, CEO Chris Licht has confirmed.

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"The exodus of Harvard and Yale is clearly forcing every top law school to rethink the benefits and risks of staying in the rankings," writes Sheldon H. Jacobson, a computer science professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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