HUD retained the inspection regime for a housing quality system that no longer exists.
Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is edging past Democrats Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. David Trone in the Maryland Senate race, according to a new poll. A Goucher College poll released Tuesday showed Hogan receiving 44 percent of voter support, leading Alsobrooks by 4 points in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up. A separate 11 percent said they...
Migrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in September 2022 can proceed with their case against charter flight company Vertol Systems Co., a district court judge ruled late last week. A Massachusetts district court judge dismissed three counts levied against the Florida-based company but ruled Vertol must face...
Iran is vowing to hit back after an alleged Israeli strike hit near the Iranian embassy in Syria, killing at least seven people, including a senior commander in Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei lamented the Monday death of Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the most high-profile loss...
Two members of WarnerBros. Discovery's (WBD) board have resigned amid an investigation from the Department of Justice into whether their presence on the body violated antitrust law. Steven Miron and Steven Newhouse, both independent company directors, resigned from WBD’s board of directors on Monday, the company said, after DOJ made them aware they were under...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) says the federal government will pay the “lion’s share” of the cost of repairing Baltimore's Francis Scott Key bridge, which collapsed last week after being struck by a cargo ship. Experts estimate it could cost between $400 million and $2 billion to repair the bridge, which spanned the outer...
Social Security penalizes tens of thousands of workers with disabilities each year by demanding they pay a debt that isn’t of their own making.
Former President Trump ripped into GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.) Monday, calling him “one of the “worst” senators in the upper chamber and a “total flake.” In a two-part post on Truth Social, Trump attacked the Louisiana Republican for being one of the seven GOP senators who broke with their party and voted to convict the former...
A top psychologist says that Donald Trump will be “cognitively incapacitated” in less than four years. Maybe Nikki Haley was right in calling for all candidates over 75 to a mental competency test.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took responsibility Tuesday for a deadly strike that killed seven aid workers for the charity group World Central Kitchen the day prior. Netanyahu, who was just discharged from the hospital following a hernia surgical operation, acknowledged a "tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed non-combatants in the Gaza Strip."...
A political advocacy group connected to former Vice President Mike Pence is pressuring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to hold a vote on a bill that could ban TikTok. Advancing American Freedom has launched a new ad supporting the bill, which would require TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from the popular app or...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told voters who are upset over a November choice between President Biden and former President Trump to “[g]et over” themselves Monday. “Get over yourself,” Clinton responded, when comedian Jimmy Fallon asked what she would say to voters “upset” about the choice they face in the 2024 presidential election, during...
President Biden chastised what he called an "extreme" Florida Supreme Court ruling upholding the state's 15-week abortion ban and triggering an even more restrictive policy. "Yesterday’s extreme decision puts desperately needed medical care even further out of reach for millions of women in Florida and across the South," Biden said Tuesday in a statement. "The...
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) raised $7.5 million for his Arizona Senate bid during the first three months of 2024, putting him on strong financial footing ahead of what will likely be a general election battle against Republican Kari Lake. Gallego’s total more than doubles the $3.3 million he raised in the final three months of...
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe argued that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's request for an expanded gag order in the hush money case against former President Trump creates a "distraction" from the actual case. "The request for clarification by DA Bragg is a perfect example of how these gag orders create more of a...
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) on Monday signed a law recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs. The law makes personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable with sentences of up to six months in jail. However, it also creates avenues for treatment instead of criminal penalties by encouraging law enforcement agencies to start programs...
Before federal regulations are implemented, they must be justified with an extensive analysis of costs and effects. The new Environmental Protection Agency rule forcing a massive shift toward electric vehicles is no exception. Weighing in at 1,181 pages, it is accompanied by an additional 884 pages of “regulatory impact analysis." The EPA analysis justifying this...
Former President Trump lashed out against the New York judge overseeing his hush money criminal trial Tuesday, after he expanded a gag order in the case, arguing it is not fair when others "can talk about" him. "I just was informed that another corrupt New York Judge, Juan Merchan, GAGGED me so that I can...
Just as 9/11 ushered in a new era of terrorism, the explosion of synthetic opioids such as illicitly manufactured fentanyl has fundamentally changed the nature of the drug trade.
Former President Trump railed against his New York civil fraud case and those involved Monday, calling it a "fabricated election interference con job" just hours after he posted a $175 million bond in the case. In a lengthy post on Truth Social Monday night, Trump argued the judgement will harm New York and called for...
The Libre Initiative Action is endorsing Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno on Tuesday, jumping into a key Senate race that could determine the chamber’s majority. Libre Action is the political arm of the Hispanic advocacy group within conservative mega-donor Charles Koch’s political network. The Trump-endorsed Moreno is challenging Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), a three-term...
Florida Democratic Senate candidate and former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) called two key decisions on abortion from the state’s Supreme Court a “game changer” for the Sunshine State's Senate race in November. In a memo exclusively seen by The Hill Tuesday, Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign said incumbent Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was “vulnerable” on abortion and tied...
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried and Binance’s Changpeng Zhao have officially joined the 2024 graduating class of corporate felons, but they surely won’t be the only crypto executives in that club. Unfortunately, without oversight, we won’t know who the other members are until after their companies similarly explode.
Seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen were killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to the nongovernmental organization. The workers were leaving a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and driving in a "deconflicted zone" in two armored cars when the strike hit, the World Central Kitchen (WCK) said. The...
The Justice Department has been using the lawsuit to distract from its own oversight failures.