A man who was convicted of multiple offenses including sex trafficking and forced labor of students at Sarah Lawrence College has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. A release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York states that Lawrence Ray, the father of a student attending the college in...
Federal authorities have seized almost $700 million from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, mostly from shares of Robinhood that he owned. A court filing from Friday shows that the federal government seized more than 55 million shares of Robinhood stock along with tens of millions of dollars from each of several bank accounts. Bankman-Fried was arrested...
The campaign for Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) revealed a “cyber-criminal” stole nearly $700,000 from the campaign in November. The Moran campaign’s treasurer, Timothy Gottschalk, wrote a letter to the Federal Election Commission last month to report that the campaign learned on Nov. 14, about a week after the election, that it made two payments totaling...
LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said he believes the Saudi Arabian government has learned from its "mistakes," in reference to human rights violations including the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Look, I think everybody learns from their mistakes,” Norman told NewsNation’s Dan Abrams in an interview on Thursday. NewsNation is owned by Nexstar, which also owns...
Abortion opponents held the first March for Life following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in Washington, D.C., on Friday, demonstrating in an effort to push Congress to enact additional restrictions on the procedure. The theme of this year’s march was “Next Steps: Marching into a Post-Roe America.” Speakers at the march emphasized that they...
The White House on Friday indicated President Biden will have a sit-down with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) early this year, but clarified there is no confirmed date on the calendar yet. "President Biden looks forward to meeting with Speaker McCarthy to discuss a range of issues, as part of a series of meetings with all...
Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes tried to “flee” the United States a few weeks after her conviction for fraud last year, prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday. Holmes was found guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud last January for misleading investors about...
Is reaching your daily “move goal” worth it? A gym in Australia got raided by police this week after a trainer's Apple Watch called emergency services on accident. Today in health, the White House’s policies aimed at expanding access to abortion pills are getting stymied by state-level abortion laws. Welcome to The Hill's Health Care roundup, where...
America’s strengths in science, engineering, and technology are at the heart of our national prosperity and our hopes of solving the world’s most pressing challenges, including climate change and economic growth. And yet, for decades, the federal government has under-invested in science and technology. Now, there’s a golden opportunity to do better, and we must...
Rangers in an Australian national park have found and euthanized the largest toad on record. Early attempts to name the 6-pound cane toad fizzled, park ranger Kylee Gray told Australian broadcasters, according to Reuters. “We considered naming her Connie after Conway National Park, but Toadzilla was the one that just kept getting thrown out there, so that...
Former President Trump suffered yet another legal setback on Thursday, when a U.S. district judge ordered him and his lead attorney to pay almost $1 million in costs and fees to numerous defendants, including Hillary Clinton, after a Trump suit the judge found to be without merit. The stark finding appears to have had an instant...
We break down why the Speaker is stuck with no dancing partner in debt ceiling negotiations. We’ll also look at another round of big tech layoffs and how many of your colleagues are using robots to do their work. ???? But first, stamps are about to get more expensive. Welcome to On The Money, your...
Demand for lithium is poised to surge thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits. Meanwhile, people harmed by contamination at Camp Lejeune seek answers, and a new study suggests natural disasters rewire our brains. This is Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on energy, the environment and beyond. For The...
Sales of existing homes dropped for the 11th straight month in December, dropping to its lowest annualized pace since 2010 except for immediately following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said in a release on Friday that existing home sales last month stood at a seasonally adjusted annual rate...
Layoffs from Silicon Valley giants are spreading, with Google announcing Friday it will cut about 12,000 jobs. Meanwhile, T-Mobile said a hacker stole data of about 37 million customers, and a poll showed nearly 30 percent of surveyed professionals said they used the new ChatGPT tool while at work. This is Hillicon Valley, detailing...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday asked a federal judge to hold the infamous "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli in contempt for failing to pay a $65 million fine and for violating a lifetime ban on working in the pharmaceutical industry. In a motion filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York,...
Thirteen years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck a devastating blow to democracy in its Citizens United v. FEC decision. The ruling reversed previous judicial precedents and struck down a century’s worth of campaign finance laws. The court erroneously decided that “independent expenditures” in campaigns are truly independent of candidates and party committees and therefore not...
All nine Supreme Court justices were interviewed as part of a probe into last year's leak of the draft opinion overturning federal abortion protections, but none were implicated, court marshal Gail Curley said on Friday. Curley has led the court's investigation since Politico published the draft Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization majority opinion in...
A top staffer to Nikki Haley's political nonprofit is leaving to join former Vice President Mike Pence's advocacy group as both former Trump administration officials ready potential 2024 campaigns. Tim Chapman, who has served as executive director of Haley's Stand for America since 2020, is departing to become a senior adviser to Pence's group, Advancing...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has filed a proposal for a new rule to push local communities to take steps to address housing segregation. HUD said in a release that the rule, announced on Thursday, would require municipalities, states and public housing agencies to set goals for fair housing issues facing their...
The Supreme Court is expected to announce its first opinion of the term on Monday following an unusual delay from historical trends. The court’s website on Friday updated to designate Monday as an opinion issuance day. It will also mark the first time the justices return to the pre-pandemic tradition of announcing their decisions live...
Philadelphia Flyers head coach John Tortorella on Thursday defended defenseman Ivan Provorov’s decision not to wear a rainbow jersey during warm-ups for the team’s Pride Night earlier this week. “As I said, Provy did nothing wrong,” Tortorella said at a press conference. “Just because you don’t agree with his decision doesn’t mean he did anything...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is facing criticism after his administration rejected an Advanced Placement African American Studies course from being taught in Florida schools, the latest curriculum-related action by the governor to draw fierce backlash. The DeSantis administration made the move earlier this month when it sent a letter to the College Board Florida Partnership arguing...
For today’s students, civics is more likely a patchwork of social studies classes that cover the mere basics, if it’s taught at all.
