Gender apartheid is not defined in international law nor is it considered in U.S. asylum and refugee law: But it should be.
Vice President Harris and former President Trump are locked in close races with no clear leader emerging in the three battleground states of Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, according to CNN's latest polling. The surveys, published Wednesday, show Harris leading Trump by 1 point among likely voters in Georgia (48 percent to 47 percent) and in...
By the time the court’s October 2024 term begins, we will truly be in a perfect storm that could permanently destroy public confidence in our judicial system and deeply impact our democracy.
Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a tax on "unrealized capital gains" which would harm all investors, and historically, taxes that start off narrowly focused on the rich often expand to affect everyone.
"We're not talking about a particular position for me in the government," Kennedy told "CUOMO."
Where Kamala Harris has gone problems have followed, but never responsibility.
Republicans are alarmed that former President Trump's support among women voters is deteriorating in the polls and that his efforts to stop the bleeding don’t appear to be working. While Republicans are no strangers to the gender gap between the parties in presidential elections, they now face a “chasm” between male and female voters. Republican...
Former President Trump is twisting himself into knots on abortion as he tries to navigate an issue that has proven galvanizing for Democrats and politically fraught for his own party ahead of November. Trump has repeatedly urged Republicans to prioritize winning elections, even if it means softening their position on abortion. But his approach risks...
Trucking Penske Truck Leasing Company hired OGR to lobby on issues related to the trucking industry, the Environmental Protection Agency, nitric oxide and dioxide (NOx) emissions and electric vehicles. One of the lobbyists on the account is Dean Aguillen, former senior adviser, director of member services and floor assistant to now-Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)....
Seven GOP-led states are suing to block President Biden’s policy that would lower or eliminate debt for millions of student loan borrowers. The lawsuit claims the Department of Education is “unlawfully trying to mass cancel hundreds of billions of dollars of loans” before the rule is finalized. The lawsuit, led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew...
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) condemned pro-Palestinian protesters for turning college campuses into “garbage dumps” and calling demonstrators “crazy.” Vance joined Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Tuesday to discuss the start of the school year at Columbia University, where earlier this year, a pro-Palestine encampment became violent and sparked a nationwide movement...
A fundraising event for defendants of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol scheduled to take place at former President Trump’s golf club in New Jersey this week has been postponed indefinitely. The “J6 Awards Gala,” hosted by nonprofit Stand in the Gap, was planned for Thursday at Trump’s Bedminster, N.J. golf club. According to...
A New York man was sentenced Tuesday to just over a year in prison for threatening to kill a congressional staff member and making more than 12,000 harassing calls to dozens of members. Ade Salim Lilly, 35, was handed a 13-month prison sentence and 36 months of release in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.,...
Starlink, Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite internet service, said Tuesday it will block Musk's social media platform X in Brazil to comply with the country's recent Supreme Court order blocking the platform in the South American nation. "The Starlink team is doing everything possible to keep you connected," the company wrote Tuesday on X. Brazilian Supreme...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken for what he described as a "refusal" to testify on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The subpoena mandates Blinken appear before the committee on Sept. 19 or face contempt, the committee said in a statement Tuesday. It follows a...
A judge in Michigan ruled Tuesday that independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must stay on the state's presidential ballot. Kennedy announced earlier this month he would be withdrawing from the race and threw his support behind former President Trump. He said he was trying to take his name off ballots in swing states where,...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Conservatives expect Johnson's support in shutdown fight Hard-line conservatives expect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will embrace their favored tactic to tie a partisan proof-of-citizenship voting bill to efforts to avert a government shutdown ahead of a...
The NAACP has joined a host of students in calling for the University of South Carolina to cancel a scheduled “roast” of Vice President Harris. In a letter to university President Michael Amiridis, the organization said that while it is nonpartisan and does not endorse candidates, it was “compelled to write this letter because of the blatant...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Health experts sound alarm over RFK Jr. influence Robert F. Kennedy's endorsement and appointment to Donald Trump's transition team have health experts worried. © AP Kennedy, who last month suspended his Independent presidential bid, has been appointed an...
Brian Stelter is heading back to CNN to lead its coverage of the media, the longtime press correspondent and commentator announced on Tuesday. Stelter's return is a surprise move that comes more than two years after he left CNN following the network's canceling of his weekly Sunday media affairs program "Reliable Sources." In his new...
Former President Trump is holding a very narrow lead over Vice President Harris in Michigan, a new local poll found. The survey, conducted by WDIV/Detroit News, found that Trump leads Harris with 44.7 percent support to her 43.5 percent. The outlet said it’s a “statistical toss-up” in the key battleground state. Just less than 5...
Click for the latest from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden approves new gas exports after legal battle The Biden administration on Tuesday granted a gas export terminal new authority to ship fuel abroad after a court blocked its efforts to delay such permissions. © Susan Walsh, Associated Press file...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other militants over the group's Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Tuesday. The charges, unsealed Tuesday, accuse Sinwar and other senior Hamas leaders of "financing and directing a decades-long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger the security of...
Democrats are seeking to put Republicans in Florida on defense over the issue of abortion. While winning the Sunshine State will be an uphill climb for Democrats, Vice President Harris’s campaign has increased its presence in Florida amid an effort to legalize the procedure in the state through a ballot initiative that will go before...
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that former President Trump may not request to move his hush money criminal case to federal court after failing to show "good cause," meaning the case will remain in New York state court. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in a four-page order that the two reasons Trump offered as...
