To escape the dark shadow that the violence in Gaza has cast over his presidency, Joe Biden must make a clean break in word and in deed from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign of death and destruction against Palestine.
It is critical that policymakers in local, state and federal governments use their power to address the acute affordable housing shortage that plagues communities in every state in the nation.
President Biden will kick off a tour across Pennsylvania with a major address in his hometown of Scranton on Tuesday, the day after tax day. The tour of Pennsylvania, which is a critical swing state that Biden won in 2020, will also include stops in the Pittsburgh area and Philadelphia. Biden is set to be...
Reaching that two-percent inflation target may yet entail some economic pain.
President Biden announced on Friday he would be canceling debt for more than 277,000 borrowers. The administration is forgiving $7.4 billion for borrowers in more than 40 states in the latest debt relief program, bringing the total amount of student loan cancellation over Biden’s presidency to $153 billion. The latest loan forgiveness initiative is...
Former President Trump’s first criminal trial is set to begin in New York on Monday. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He denies all charges. The underlying events revolve around hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal in the closing days...
Former President Trump and his allies are actively trying to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign a boost. While Trump and his associates call Kennedy a “leftist,” they are betting the independent candidate could help the former president win in a close election where many voters are agnostic about the two other choices. It’s a...
Vice President Harris will rally supporters in Arizona on Friday, where outrage is brewing among Democrats over a court ruling that upheld an 1864 law and made performing abortion a felony. Harris will take direct aim at former President Trump in her remarks, according to excerpts shared by the Biden campaign. The vice president will say...
Progressives Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) have formed a joint fundraising committee, Tlaib’s office confirmed to The Hill. The committee, dubbed “Sisters Saving Lives,” was filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Thursday. Tlaib and Bush, both members who have been critical of Israel's handling of the war against Hamas, started...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has become the third tribal nation to ban South Dakota Kristi Noem (R) from its reservation land. On Wednesday, the Standing Rock Tribal Council voted to ban Noem from its land for “racially charged” comments she made at town halls events alleging that some tribal leaders are “personally benefitting” from...
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena to a conservative legal advocate as a part of an ethics probe driven by reports of undisclosed gifts to some conservative Supreme Court justices, multiple outlets reported on Thursday. The committee sent the subpoena on Thursday to Leonard Leo, the co-chair...
The Chlamydia vaccine showed promising results in an early-stage clinical trial conducted by researchers in the U.K. and Denmark. The early phase of the research found the experimental vaccine to be safe. The study was conducted from 2020 through 2022 with individuals split between non-pregnant women and men, while none had chlamydia. The researchers examined...
A Colorado Republican state representative issued an apology after he left his loaded gun in a bathroom in the state’s Capitol building. State Rep. Don Wilson (R) posted a statement dated Wednesday on the social platform X, apologizing for “briefly” leaving his firearm unattended after the building was closed to the public. “I want to...
A shake-up is happening among the Republican spending cardinals on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Republicans chose Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a prominent negotiator, as the new head of the committee, which is tasked with crafting the 12 annual government funding bills, after retiring Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) said she would step down from the...
Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a “level of corruption that we’ve just never seen” when talking about his firm’s recent investments overseas. Rhodes said that Kushner engaged in corruption when asked about The New York Times’s recent reporting that detailed that 99 percent of...
The House Rules Committee advanced a bill to reauthorize the U.S.’s warrantless surveillance authority late Thursday night, sending the measure to the floor one day after a band of Republicans blocked consideration of a previous version of the legislation. The panel voted 8-4 to adopt the rule — which governs debate on legislation — for a...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said former President Trump hasn’t mentioned being his running mate in the presidential election, despite speculation in recent months that he’s one of the contenders. “I’ve never actually spoken to the president about VP speculation. My simple answer is, I wanna help him however I can,” Vance told Fox News’s Laura...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday confirmed previous reports that Russia-linked hackers tapped into correspondence between federal agencies and Microsoft. The agency publicly issued an emergency directive Thursday in which it told agencies that were affected by the breach to take actions including taking “steps to identify the full content of the...
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Robert Califf, pushed lawmakers on Thursday to pass a bill that would mandate that food manufacturers perform testing for lead in their products that are getting imported into the country from overseas. Califf’s call to action came while he was answering questions from Rep....
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study has found that mRNA vaccines for the COVID-19 virus are not linked to cardiac death in younger adults. The study was conducted using Oregon death certificate data for people aged 16 to 30 who died from a heart condition between June 1, 2021, and Dec. 31,...
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried appealed his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence Thursday, just weeks after a New York judge handed down his penalty. The former billionaire crypto leader, who was found guilty of using investor funds to bankroll his lavish lifestyle, will have to appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Interior cuts costs for wind, solar on public lands The Biden administration has finalized a rule that's expected to make it cheaper to develop wind and solar energy on public lands. © AP Photo/Rick Bowmer The...
