Disney is eliminating its metaverse unit as part of its plan to lay off 7,000 workers that will save the company billions of dollars, a source familiar with the situation told The Hill. The Wall Street Journal first reported the plan to cut the division responsible for developing metaverse strategies, citing people familiar. The source...
House members spent a Tuesday hearing debating who to blame for school closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with Republicans deriding the influence of teacher's unions and Democrats blasting the Trump administration. During the hearing, titled “The Consequences of School Closures: Intended and Unintended,” members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic agreed that school...
Lawmakers raked banking regulators at the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) over the coals during a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday after the agencies failed to act on signs that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was in trouble, mobilizing instead to bail out depositors after it had collapsed....
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) urged Republicans to focus on reducing gun violence rather than banning books, in the wake of a school shooting in Nashville, Tenn., that left three children and three staff members dead. “If we really want to keep our children safe, we need to spend less time banning books and more...
Maryland’s second-highest court reinstated the conviction and sentence of Adnan Syed, the man whose murder investigation and trial was the center of the hit podcast “Serial,” saying a lower court violated the rights of the victim’s family when it vacated his conviction last year. The Maryland appellate court ruled in a 2-1 decision that the...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says if “Saturday Night Live” ever features an impersonation of her, she’s unlikely to catch it, because she’s usually taking a Saturday night snooze. “I think I’m usually sleeping,” Jean-Pierre replied when asked if she’s able to enjoy shows like “SNL” on the weekend or if they hit too...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Possible TikTok ban raises alarms for Democrats ahead of 2024 Democrats are expressing concerns that a ban on the video sharing app could depress engagment for Generation Z voters ahead of next year’s general election. © AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana...
A multiracial coalition of female lawmakers announced the launch of the Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on Tuesday afternoon. The caucus, which will work to affirm the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, will be co-chaired by Democratic founders Reps. Cori Bush (Mo.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.). Reps. Judy Chu...
A former top official for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned lawmakers on Tuesday that the U.S. is only one crisis away from experiencing another infant formula shortage and called for heightened regulations on manufacturers and greater organization within his former agency. Frank Yiannas, who served as the FDA’s deputy commissioner for food policy...
She “struggled to fit in” as a first-generation Korean American, but MSNBC’s Katie Phang is now sitting at the head of the table — leading a discussion on what it means to be a part of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Phang, the host of her eponymous weekend MSNBC show, is the...
Vice President Harris on Tuesday reflected on the horrors of slavery and the need to learn from history in emotional remarks after touring an old slave trading post on the coast of Ghana as part of her weeklong visit to Africa. “Being here was immensely powerful and moving,” Harris said as her voice cracked. “When...
Former Vice President Mike Pence has been ordered to appear before a grand jury weighing efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to reports from multiple outlets on Tuesday, after a top federal judge ruled that executive privilege could not entirely shield him from answering questions. The sealed order rejected former President Trump’s claims of...
President Biden is speaking Tuesday from Durham, N.C., to make his case that his administration’s actions have boosted the U.S. economy. Biden is visiting the semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed, which has recently begun a major expansion in the region. The semiconductor industry is the principal beneficiary of last year's CHIPs and Science Act. North Carolina's Research Triangle...
President Biden on Tuesday argued that he can’t do much more to curb gun violence other than plead with Congress to act, blaming lawmakers for their lack of legislation to ban assault weapons following another deadly school shooting — this time in Nashville. “The Congress has to act. The majority of the American people think...
Garth Brooks and other country music stars are speaking out following the deadly mass shooting at a Nashville school, saying that “it’s the world we live in right now.” The “Friends in Low Places” singer said that he films his Facebook Live series, “Inside Studio G,” less than two miles from The Covenant School, where...
The late Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump, was under a counterintelligence inquiry conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1990s, according to a new report. Bloomberg News reported that the FBI was looking into allegations related to her ties to Czechoslovakia, her home country. A 190-page, significantly redacted...
Renewable energy for the first time comprised more electricity generated in the U.S. last year than coal or nuclear power, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The federal agency found the growth was largely driven by increased proliferation of wind and solar energy, which collectively made up 14 percent of U.S....
Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday night that only verified users’ tweets will appear in the social media platform’s main recommendations feed, or For You timeline, starting on April 15. It "is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over,” he added. “It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle. Voting...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sent a letter to President Biden on Tuesday blaming him for any negative consequences that come from the looming debt ceiling deadline and suggesting several areas of negotiation for spending reductions and reforms. “With each passing day, I am incredibly concerned that you are putting an already fragile economy in jeopardy...
Disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried bribed Chinese officials with at least $40 million in cryptocurrency, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment Tuesday. Bankman-Fried directed the transfer “in order to influence and induce” Chinese officials to unfreeze his hedge fund accounts that held more than $1 billion in crypto, according to the indictment. Prosecutors said that...
Bipartisan lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced legislation Tuesday to crack down on the illegal use of a veterinary tranquilizer that is increasingly being found in fentanyl and other drugs. Xylazine, also known as “tranq,” is an easily accessible veterinary drug approved for use in animals as a sedative and pain reliever. But it...
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House Republicans subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken late Monday, compelling him to turn over a July 2021 dissent cable from U.S. officials in Afghanistan reportedly warning of the grave risk that the government there would collapse. The subpoena, signed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas), comes after a tense exchange between...
CNN is closing in on a deal that would bring broadcaster Gayle King to the network to host a show in prime time, according to multiple reports. King, 68, has served as a co-host of “CBS Mornings” for more than a decade and is reportedly in talks with CNN president Chris Licht about a weekly show that...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday called on Republicans to show political “courage” and act on gun violence following the deadly school shooting in Nashville the previous day. “When you hear elected officials say it’s another talking point when the president is saying that we need to do more — that’s actually devastating to...
