President Biden on Thursday said that the scathing report the Justice Department issued about the investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department was "long overdue." The report released on Wednesday found that the police department and the local government had engaged in a pattern of discriminatory behavior against Black citizens. “Cops need help. There’s some bad cops,...
Ben Savage wouldn’t just add some star power to Congress, the “Boy Meets World” actor says — his House bid aims to get rid of the “negativity” in Washington. “It's about doing good and it's about doing the right thing,” Savage, who announced his run this week as a Democrat in California’s 30th District, said on Thursday on...
The Supreme Court has asked Congress for about $12.4 million in additional funding to better protect the justices and the court building following recent threats — a request that comes after the arrest of a man near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home. The judiciary’s annual budget request, which was released on Thursday, includes a $5.9 million...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday introduced a bill that would cap the list price of insulin at $20 per vial, building off Eli Lilly's recently announced $35 monthly insulin cap. “There is no reason why Americans should pay the highest prices in the world for insulin – in some cases, ten times as much...
President Biden on Thursday offered his well wishes for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after the senator was hospitalized after a fall. "Jill and I are wishing Senator McConnell a speedy recovery. We look forward to seeing him back on the Senate floor," Biden tweeted. White House principal deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton said...
As much as people dislike switching their clocks twice each year, they dislike even more settling on one time.
A Norfolk Southern train derailed in northeast Alabama on Thursday, as the company’s CEO testified in front of Congress amid a string of high-profile incidents involving the rail giant. The company said in a statement to The Hill that around 30 empty cars derailed as the train traveled from Atlanta to Mississippi. “Norfolk Southern is...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Biden’s pick to lead the IRS with bipartisan support. Senators voted 54 to 42 to confirm Danny Werfel as commissioner of the IRS on Wednesday evening, hours after the chamber voted to advance his confirmation. Six Republicans voted for Werfel while Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted against him because...
When I taught a course on blockchain and money at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I asked my students every semester who they thought Satoshi Nakamoto was. To this day, no one knows. Nakamoto’s anonymous identity is part of the creation myth of finance without trusted third parties — a new way to move value...
Top leaders in the House said the scope of the data breach at DC Health Link, a program that administers health care plans for members of Congress and their staff, remains unknown, but the pair warned that the size of the impact “could be extraordinary.” The update came in a letter Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)...
Testifying before the Senate on Thursday, the CEO of Norfolk Southern stopped short of making commitments to pay for East Palestine, Ohio, residents’ health care in the wake of a train derailment that spilled hazardous chemicals in the town. Asked by Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) whether he would compensate...
A commission launched by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday urged Congress and the Biden administration to create rules for artificial intelligence (AI), calling its regulation a “top priority.” The corporate lobbying group’s AI commission, which is led by former Reps. John Delaney (D-Md.) and Mike Ferguson (R-N.J.), said that “virtually every business and...
Two conservative activists who robocalled Black voters as part of a voter suppression scheme during the 2020 election violated multiple federal and state civil rights laws, a judge ruled on Wednesday. In a 111-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman used thousands of robocalls in Ohio, Michigan, New York,...
Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who represented former President Trump, admitted in court that she made various misrepresentations on social media and major television appearances about the 2020 presidential election, leading a judge to issue a public censure on Wednesday. Ellis, who was part of the former president’s efforts to challenge the legitimacy of his election...
President Biden’s pick to lead the World Bank, former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, is getting public backing from a group of Nobel Prize winners and civil society leaders. More than 50 signatories on a letter shared by the Partnership for Central America say Banga is “the right person to lead the World Bank at this...
A federal judge on Wednesday vacated a Biden administration policy that released prospective asylees at the U.S.-Mexico border rather than detaining them. Judge T. Kent Wetherell, who was nominated by former President Trump, ruled that the policy, which its Republican critics condemned as “catch and release,” violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and tore...
Former President Trump is releasing a new book that will include a star-studded batch of private letters penned to him by “some of the biggest names in history.” “Letters to Trump” will feature “oftentimes private correspondence” between the former New York real estate developer and famous names including Princess Diana, North Korean leader Kim Jong...
Despite hitting the $31.4 trillion limit on our nation’s credit card on Jan. 19, the national debt will continue to grow by an average of more than $20 billion every week. The Treasury Department continues to cut checks to federal agencies using what are known as “extraordinary measures” to avoid having to operate strictly within...
The CEO of Norfolk Southern on Tuesday will tell the Senate in a hearing that he’s “deeply sorry” for the impact of last month’s train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. “I am deeply sorry for the impact this derailment has had on the people of East Palestine and surrounding communities, and I am determined to...
The new variant of China’s balancing strategy involves balancing the United States in the space of global governance.
When the pandemic started is easier to determine than when it will end.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was hospitalized Wednesday night after a fall in Washington, D.C. The 81-year-old tripped while attending a private dinner, a spokesperson for the senator told The Hill, and has been admitted to a hospital “where he is receiving treatment.” CNN, citing an unidentified source, reports the fall occurred at D.C.’s...
Senate Democrats are in a tough spot politically as they attempt to show the party is not soft on crime after a vote to nix updates to the District of Columbia’s criminal code thrust the hot-button issue back into the spotlight. Despite the sizable Democratic support for the resolution to block a crime bill passed...
The United States saw its highest-ever distribution of white supremacist propaganda last year, jumping 38 percent, according to data collected by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The group recorded 6,751 incidents of propaganda activity in 2022 — a jump from 4,876 in 2021 that the ADL attributed to growth in the number of white supremacist groups...
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) are wary over the Biden administration's noncommittal approach to permanently nixing family detention for migrants at the border. Administration officials have repeatedly refused to rule out reinstating the policy ended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2021, following reports Monday that a return to family detention was floated...
