Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security panel, abruptly walked out of a committee markup Wednesday morning after clashing with the panel’s chairman Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) over amendments. Paul vented his frustration over Peters’ use of procedural tactics to effectively shield Democrats on the committee from voting on...
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels met with Manhattan prosecutors on Wednesday, her attorney said, amid the criminal investigation into former President Trump in connection with a hush payment Daniels received. Daniels’s appearance comes as a grand jury hears evidence in the probe, which revolves around a $130,000 payment that Trump’s then-personal attorney paid to Daniels...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the moderate Republican who ran in 2016 for the party's presidential nomination, is slated to speak at an event in New Hampshire later this month, as rumors swirl that he is considering another White House bid in 2024. Christie is scheduled to speak at a town hall-style event at...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Wednesday urged the Treasury Department to ensure that hostile foreign adversaries do not acquire assets from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank as regulators sell off the failed banks' assets in an effort to make depositors whole. “I write to urge the department to prioritize United States national security, and,...
Conservative author Bethany Mandel struggled to define the term “woke” on Tuesday while discussing her new book “Stolen Youth,” which accuses liberals of targeting children with “woke indoctrination.” “So, I mean, woke is, sort of, the idea that, um,” Mandel began, after The Hill Rising's Briahna Joy Gray asked her to define the term. The...
President Biden will speak Wednesday on how his proposed 2024 budget could affect prescription drug prices. The appearance at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas follows several other stops in a western swing, which included a meeting with the prime ministers of the U.K. and Australia, as well as fundraising stops. Biden on Tuesday signed...
The Biden administration has released its first list of nearly 30 drugs covered by Medicare that will be subject to the penalties included in the Inflation Reduction Act, because their prices increased faster than the rate of inflation. Under the act, drug manufacturers are required to pay rebates to the federal government if the price...
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday said that there have been "more mistakes than usual" in U.S. air travel recently after dozens of close calls, pressing the air travel sector to help address the situation. “U.S. aviation remains an exceptionally safe mode of travel — whether you compare it to other modes, whether you compare...
The Justice Department is encouraging a judge to exclude at trial any claims from former President Trump aide Peter Navarro that he defied a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee due to concerns over executive privilege. The late Tuesday filing from the department comes in response to a successful last-minute effort by Navarro to...
Vice President Harris will travel to Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday for her first trip to the state as vice president. In Iowa, the vice president will meet with local leaders to discuss Democrats' fight to protect reproductive rights and participate in a roundtable, her office announced on Tuesday. Harris has traversed the country in...
The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday is scheduled to consider President Biden’s nominee to serve as the Archivist of the United States, despite a whistleblower complaint made public last week accusing the nominee of abusive behavior. The nominee, Colleen Shogan, faced a withering round of questions from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) when she...
President Biden has found a new foil: the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Biden has sought to cast the group, which includes Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), as the face of the GOP in order to contrast their vision for the country with his own as he prepares to launch his reelection bid. At...
Students at Wellesley College voted in a nonbinding election on Tuesday to approve expanding eligibility for admission to all nonbinary and transgender applicants. The student body approved the referendum, which asked whether the school should shift its admission policy to allow nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth and trans men to apply to...
A service member was found dead in the Pentagon parking lot Tuesday, according to the Defense Department. Around 3:30 p.m., “the Pentagon Operations Center received a call requesting a welfare check on a military service member,” press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement. When Pentagon police officers responded to the building’s North...
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mon.) called on the Federal Reserve and federal regulators to “claw back” bonuses that were reportedly paid to Silicon Valley Bank executives just hours before the federal government took over the now-defunct bank. “I’m calling on the (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) FDIC to use every tool at their disposal to claw back...
Hopes by lawmakers to balance the federal budget in a decade through reductions in spending could mean significant cuts to programs to achieve that goal, an analysis released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Tuesday. The analysis, requested by Democrats, crunches the numbers behind what achieving a balanced budget in the next 10...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will be gifting donations received from former Silicon Valley Bank CEO and the institution's PAC to charities, just days after federal regulators shut down the bank. A source who knew of the matter told CNBC that Schumer would be giving donations received from former Silicon Bank Valley CEO Greg...
The Michigan Senate approved a bill on Tuesday to repeal the state’s right-to-work law that allows employees in unionized jobs to opt out of membership and paying dues in a victory for organized labor, sending the bill to the state House. The bill, which narrowly passed along party lines in a 20-17 vote, would remove...
The share prices of a number of regional banks rebounded on Tuesday after taking a sharp fall following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank last week, showing a stabilization in the banking industry following a burst of panic from investors. Shares for First Republic Bank, a San Francisco-based firm with assets totaling over $212 billion,...
A new Florida bill would ban programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion in colleges and universities across the state. House Bill 999, or the Public Postsecondary Educational Institutions, bans colleges from financially supporting “any programs or campus activities that espouse diversity, equity, or inclusion or Critical Race Theory rhetoric.” The language has led to concerns...
