Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Bill to stop shutdown sputters ahead of deadline A midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown is getting too close for comfort for Republicans and Democrats, as a major funding package runs into delays...
Sea level rise caused by the changing climate is expected to wreak havoc on the nation’s coastal cities. Those impacts could be heightened in the years ahead as the cities themselves are sinking, according to a new study. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that coastal land areas are sinking. They’re...
Iowa State House Republicans passed a fetal personhood bill Thursday evening, the latest as the national debate on in vitro fertilization (IVF) continues. The bill, House Bill 2575, increases the penalty for the nonconsensual ending of a pregnancy, making it a felony and increasing jail time. Opponents are taking issue since the bill changes the...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) took down a social media post, which he later referred to as “inappropriate.” The post on X, formerly Twitter, featured side-by-side pictures of actress Sydney Sweeney during her recent appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” wearing a revealing outfit, and President Biden as he arrived at his State of the Union...
Unsupervised exposures of infants and young children to melatonin have increased substantially in recent years, landing thousands of children in the emergency room. The number of kids aged 5 and younger who went to an emergency room for unsupervised melatonin ingestion increased 420 percent from 2009 to 2020, according to new data from the Centers...
The state of Texas on Friday sued the Biden administration over an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule restricting methane emissions finalized earlier Friday morning. The lawsuit was requested in late January by the Texas Railroad Commission, the state’s primary oil and gas regulator, while the rule was still being finalized. In a request to Texas...
With the stroke of a pen, President Biden could reverse his disastrous executive orders that facilitated this border crisis in the first place, or meaningfully work with House Republicans to pass a strong border security bill.
