The new airline is set on putting pets front and center.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) is now banned from all tribal lands in the state after the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe voted to bar her from their reservation Wednesday, citing her repeated claims that tribal leaders work with drug cartels. Noem sparked the controversy in March when she said tribal leaders benefit from the...
Taking innocent civilians and locking them away without a trace is unacceptable, especially in the case of women and children, who are vulnerable and unprotected.
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) criticized ex-GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s recent announcement that she would vote for former President Trump in November. “Well, I’d say, in some ways, it’s to be expected,” Sanford responded to the news in an interview on CNN. "And what I mean by that is, ambition kills off...
Officials from several universities are slated to testify Thursday on the impact of the pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled college campuses in the past couple of months. Leadership from Northwestern University, Rutgers University and the University of California, Los Angeles, will speak before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce to answer for a...
China launched new military exercises around Taiwan, scrambling jets and sending ships out for patrols just days after the self-governing island nation swore in a new pro-U.S. president who Beijing criticized for escalating tensions in his inaugural address. The military drills, code-named Joint Sword 2024A, will run from Thursday to Friday, according to state-run Chinese...
Today’s heightened political partisanship makes it essential to strengthen the process of impeachment.
Former FBI Director James Comey suggested Wednesday that there is an “overwhelming chance” former President Trump will be convicted in his hush money trial that wound down in New York City this week. “There’s an overwhelming chance of a conviction, a significant but much smaller chance of a hung jury and zero chance of an...
There is an obvious effort, from both sides of the aisle and some forces within the Acela media, to downplay Kennedy’s impact.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Wednesday that he would not attend any speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Congress, adding to rising pushback from Democrats against Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) effort to send an invitation. Johnson said earlier Wednesday that he expects Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to sign off on Netanyahu's...
Politicians can dress it up all they want, but their open hostility towards Section 230 has always been thinly veiled animosity towards free expression itself.
AI-related copyright infringement lawsuits allege that chatbots, robots, and other learning machines are getting their education from commercially produced works, which are used without permission or compensation.
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb went after Judge Aileen Cannon Wednesday for indefinitely postponing former President Trump’s criminal classified documents case for procedural reasons, accusing her of “incompetence.” “I don’t think this case will move at all,” Cobb said in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett. “And I think the fact that she’s...
"I didn't mean for none of this to happen – I'm truly sorry that woman had to lose her life," the 18-year-old said.
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt has been ousted from his role in Oregon, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ, losing to a challenge from Senior Deputy District Attorney Nathan Vasquez. Schmidt took office in the Portland-area district amid the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands...
Tax returns, artificial intelligence and border security. Those are just some of the issues lawmakers are set to tackle in the coming weeks, as Congress checks items off the legislative bucket list ahead of their summer recess. Meanwhile, House Republicans are plotting an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 annual government funding bills for fiscal...
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) vote to ban noncompete agreements is set to have an outsized impact on the health care sector, empowering clinicians and raising anxiety among private practices who worry it will compound staffing problems. The FTC voted 3-2 last month to ban all current and future agreements preventing workers from going to...
Opponents of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs scored a major victory this month in North Carolina, with the state's flagship public university preemptively moving funds away from DEI due to fears of a ban, indicating that dangers to the policies are growing even beyond conservative strongholds. Red states including Texas and Florida have...
Democrats are mostly brushing off concerns about former President Trump outraising President Biden last month, despite their messaging for months that Biden’s fundraising edge is a major leg up for the president. But other contingents of the party are also expressing words of caution on a race that’s much closer than they think it ought...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) holds a sizeable lead over her primary rivals in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, according to a new Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey released on Thursday. Forty-seven percent of likely South Carolina Republican primary voters said they backed Mace, while 22 percent said they were supporting former state agency official Catherine...
Senate Republicans not known for being ardent backers of former President Trump are weighing whether to attend the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer or sidestep it fully, as he moves closer to a White House return next year. Four Senate GOP members in that mold — Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Todd...
Former President Trump is headed to the south Bronx on Thursday for a rare rally in the heart of New York City – and in an area where President Biden blew him out of the water in 2020. The event follows other recent campaign stops in New Jersey and Minnesota, appearing to be executing his...
The Biden administration is goading Senate Republicans to support a revival of the failed bipartisan border deal that they abandoned after former President Trump came out against it. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is planning a second vote on the bill Thursday, though Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday told President Biden that Republicans...
President Biden is expected to soon designate Kenya as a major non-NATO ally, a senior administration official said. Biden is expected to inform Congress that he will designate Kenya with the lauded title, which comes with special privileges, the official said, describing it as an acknowledgment that "Kenya is already a global partner." "This is also big...
Former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday fiercely defended Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito against a barrage of criticism following reporting that, at one point, two flags associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol had been on display outside his home. “Absolutely not,” Bolton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer when asked whether...
