The president of a western Texas university has canceled a charity drag show organized by students, arguing that drag performances are misogynistic and comparing them to blackface. “Does a drag show preserve a single thread of human dignity? I think not,” West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) President Walter Wendler wrote this week in an email...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a constitutional amendment in the Senate on Wednesday to cap the Supreme Court at nine justices, in a bid to squash the desire among some Democrats to expand the bench and dilute the current conservative majority. Expanding the Supreme Court has become a popular policy idea with some liberals after...
The White House on Wednesday called a proposed expansion of a controversial Florida law restricting discussion of gender and sexuality in the classroom “wrong” and part of a concerning trend of anti-LGBTQ legislation. “It’s wrong. It’s completely, utterly wrong,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing. Jean-Pierre was asked about a proposed rule from...
{beacon} Evening Report Wednesday, March 22 © The Hill Fed raises interest rates a quarter-point The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.25 percentage points on Wednesday in the ninth consecutive hike since last March. From The Hill's Tobias Burns: "The move shows that the Fed’s first priority remains bringing down elevated...
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story Water in ‘deep trouble’ on World Water Day, UN says Some 2 billion people around the world still don’t have access to safe drinking water — a grave circumstance that is thwarting efforts to achieve global peace, United Nations officials warned on...
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Russia awarding the two pilots who downed a U.S. drone earlier this month was “insulting” and that the Kremlin must have a “different definition” of bravery. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu gave the ‘Orders of Courage’ award earlier on Wednesday to the fighter pilots who were involved...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday declined to say whether he has confidence in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) ahead of an expected indictment of former President Trump. Asked if he had confidence in Bragg, Schumer answered: “Look, the bottom line, is — as I said — it’s premature to comment...
IPCC released another climate report. How dire a warning must there be for us to do something about global climate change?
By following the evidence, states can minimize the harm caused by changing policies at this critical moment.
An appeals court on Wednesday rejected attempts by former President Trump’s legal team to challenge a Friday ruling ordering his attorney Evan Corcoran to produce documents related to the probe into the potential mishandling of records at Mar-a-Lago. A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with special counsel Jack Smith and...
Fabricated images of former President Trump being arrested are circulating social media as the country prepares for his possible indictment this week. The images, created using artificial intelligence software (AI), show what appears to be the a large group of New York City Police Department officers arresting the former president as he resists be detained....
Former President Trump faces the possibility of an indictment following a sprawling investigation by Manhattan prosecutors that ultimately returned to how it began: a hush payment made to an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election. The years-long probe kicked off with an investigation of the hush payment but later shifted to other areas...
A coalition of conservative groups led by Americans for Tax Reform are calling on lawmakers to block the creation of a government-run tax preparation service or a “direct file” tax return system, a largely overlooked reform included last year in President Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act. The program is the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said in a recent interview that he “kind of” likes former President Trump’s “Ron DeSanctimonious” nickname for him. “I don’t know how to spell the sanctimonious one. I don’t really know what it means, but I kinda like it, it’s long, it’s got a lot of vowels,” DeSantis told television...
Two of the biggest U.S. news stories from the past month are connected in ways that aren’t immediately obvious.
A group of Republican senators called on their colleagues on Wednesday to support bipartisan rail safety legislation aimed at preventing train derailments like the one in East Palestine, Ohio, last month. “The U.S. government must provide the American people with the security of knowing that what happened to East Palestine will not happen again,” Sens....
This week, President Biden issued his first veto and proudly announced the move on Twitter. “I just vetoed my first bill. This bill would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors MAGA House Republicans don’t like,” Biden wrote on Twitter. “Your plan manager should be able to protect your hard-earned...
Last week, Republicans denounced Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as he played Vladimir Putin’s “useful idiot.” But disdain for fundamental Republican principles infects DeSantis’s approach to domestic issues as well. For decades, the underlying premise of Republicans’ approach to policy has been “small government.” Big government was the enemy, while a less powerful, less intrusive...
At this moment, I now believe the odds that President Biden and Congress fail to reach a debt ceiling agreement, leading to a default and failure of the full faith and credit of the United States, are greater than 60 percent. Inability to reach an agreement would cause a run on the banks, deep recession,...
North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, as South Korea and the U.S. held joint military exercises, according to the South Korean military. The test comes just days after North Korea said a missile it launched on Monday was fired as a simulated nuclear attack on South Korea, as North...
A large majority of Americans in a new poll said they find it believable that former President Trump paid adult-film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to keep her from talking about an alleged affair between the two. Seventy percent in the Reuters-Ipsos poll released on Tuesday said they find the allegations at the center...
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for “common sense” reforms to federal entitlement programs, namely Social Security and Medicare, weighing in on what is set to be a wedge issue in the 2024 presidential campaign. “If we act in this moment with the support of this generation, we can introduce common sense reforms...
The White House this week is stepping up attacks on conservative Republicans, using a budget proposal by a bloc of lawmakers to hit the opposition party on key issues that typically rile the base ahead of 2024. The Biden administration kicked off a messaging campaign to slam the House Freedom Caucus’s budget proposal on a...
Former President Trump is taking advantage of his possible indictment coming this week by sending out numerous fundraising emails asking his supporters to donate to his third presidential campaign. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has signaled that he is prepared to bring charges against the former president in connection to a hush-money payment made to adult film...
Former President Trump could be indicted in the coming days, a seismic event that will ripple through the political world. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has signaled he is prepared to bring charges against Trump over a hush-money payment to cover up an alleged affair during the 2016 election. Trump, who over the weekend indicated...
