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The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting next year’s global climate summit, has put the head of the country’s oil company in charge of the event. The UAE announced on Thursday that Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, will serve as president of the COP28 conference. Al Jaber will develop...
SPOTTED: Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) getting up close and personal with a first edition “Superman” No. 1 comic as he was reunited with the famed issue nearly a week after being sworn in with it and the Constitution. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden joined the House freshman at the Library of Congress on Thursday for...
The White House on Thursday said it is confident that an investigation into the discovery of classified documents will find that President Biden accidentally misplaced them. “We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the President and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake,” Richard...
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday provided the most detailed timeline yet of the Justice Department’s investigation into the discoveries of classified documents at President Biden’s home and office following his vice presidency. Garland at a news conference announced he appointed Robert Hur, a former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney, as special counsel to lead the investigation....
The percentage of kindergarten students who have not received routine childhood vaccination rose again during the 2021-2022 school year, federal health officials said Thursday, as the lingering COVID-19 pandemic disrupted efforts to get kids vaccinated. Overall vaccination rates among kindergartners remain high, but coverage has dropped 2 percentage points from 95 percent in the pre-pandemic...
Scientists at oil giant ExxonMobil accurately forecast present-day climate change going back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new study has found. The findings by Harvard and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research are “the nail-in-the-coffin of ExxonMobil’s claims that it has been falsely accused of climate malfeasance,” lead author Geoffrey Supran, a...
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Robert Hur as the special counsel that will investigate the discovery of classified materials that may have been mishandled in the aftermath of President Biden’s time as vice president. Who is Robert Hur? Hur, a Harvard and Stanford graduate, was nominated by President Trump to serve as...
The University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (UCIP) announced former Reps. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas.), and Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who last year fell short in bids for higher office in their respective states, are among the eight new fellows for its Pritzker Fellowship program for the spring semester. In a news release on Thursday, UCIP shared...
Plans to develop the desert west of Phoenix outstrip the water available to the area, a newly released report from Arizona's Department of Water Resources shows. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) on Monday ordered the report to be released, saying “I do not understand, and do not in any way agree with, my predecessor choosing...
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to ban members of Congress and some of their family from trading individual stocks while they are in office. Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) dropped the Trust in Congress Act on Thursday, the third time that the unlikely duo has introduced the...
Former Vice President Pence in an exclusive interview called on the Biden administration to reinstate and repay members of the military who were discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine now that the mandate for the shot has been lifted. Pence, in a Wednesday interview with The Hill, called it “unconscionable” that some troops...
The words of 9-year-old Kayden Hern, of Harlem, are echoing across the world.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents that were potentially mishandled following President Biden's tenure as vice president. Garland made the announcement after a second batch of classified documents were found in the garage of Biden's Wilmington, Del., residence and also indicated that,...
The federal government is calling for American firefighters to get additional funding and an intensive training regimen to better prepare for a new era of climate-change fueled fires in the country’s growing suburbs and exurbs. The expanding fringe where cities merge into wildlands — the wildland-urban interface (WUI) — is becoming the frontline for deadly...
President Biden on Thursday eulogized former Defense Secretary Ash Carter as an innovative public servant who advanced the military's strength and diversity through his work. Biden spoke at a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral for Carter, who died in October after a sudden heart attack. He was 68. “This is beyond my capacity...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday argued President Biden knew his private office had classified documents, or he wouldn't have had his attorneys remove things from his office. “I think if you call a lawyer to remove something for your office, he must have known ahead of time,” McCarthy said. “So, I think he...
Three Senate Democrats are raising alarms about the growth of U.S.-based paramilitary groups along the border with Mexico, and the lack of federal government oversight to regulate them. Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) called on Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to "crack down on...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday weighed whether it should uphold a lower court’s ruling that private parties cannot bring allegations of racial gerrymanders under a key section of the Voting Rights Act. A three-judge panel on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is set to decide whether the Arkansas State Conference NAACP can challenge...
Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to make an announcement Thursday afternoon, addressing the public a day after the discovery of a second batch of classified documents from President Biden’s tenure as vice president. The announcement comes as the Justice Department is under pressure to appoint a special counsel to oversee an investigation into the...
The new head of House Democrats said Thursday that the fate of embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is for GOP leaders to resolve. Santos, a Long Island freshman, has come under fire for a host of scandals swirling around his campaign. Revelations that he’d fabricated large parts of his résumé and questions about his campaign...
New York Reps. Dan Goldman (D) and Ritchie Torres (D) introduced the "SANTOS Act" on Thursday — legislation targeting embattled GOP Rep. George Santos (R- N.Y.) that would require candidates to submit more personal information about themselves when filing to run for Congress. The legislation, called the “Stopping Another Non Truthful Office Seeker Act,” would...
President Biden says Thursday's positive inflation report, which showed prices cooling in December, supports his stewardship of the economy and should make House Republicans reconsider their agenda. Biden spoke to reporters shortly after data from the consumer price index showed the annual inflation rate fell from 7.1 percent in November 2022 to 6.5 percent in...
Dozens of House Democrats urged President Biden and his administration to revoke the diplomatic visa that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is using to stay in the U.S. amid the recent riots in his country's capital. In a letter sent Thursday, the lawmakers expressed concern about Sunday's riots in Brasilia, noting the similarities between them...
The Department of Defense, NASA and the GSA should leave the environmental regulating to the environmental agencies.
