The Santa Fe district attorney on Wednesday said she’ll step away from prosecuting the deadly 2021 shooting on the set of the movie “Rust," and announced the appointment of two New Mexico attorneys to serve as special prosecutors in the case. “My responsibility to the people of the First Judicial District is greater than any...
President Biden will not veto a GOP-led effort to end the COVID-19 national emergency, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told Democratic senators on Wednesday. A Senate Democratic source confirmed that Schumer informed senators of the decision. The move comes ahead of a planned vote in the upper chamber on the measure later in the...
Adidas said it will no longer oppose Black Lives Matter’s trademark application, just two days after filing its initial complaint. “Adidas will withdraw its opposition to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s trademark application as soon as possible,” the company said in a statement to The Hill. The athletic wear company on Monday filed its opposition...
The Senate on Wednesday adopted a resolution that would nix the Biden administration’s clean water regulations, setting up another anticipated veto from the president. The vote was 53-43. The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to eliminate federal regulations within a certain time period with a simple majority vote and the president’s signature — evading a...
A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to claw back some or all of the top executives’ compensation from the five years leading up to bank failures, following the high-profile collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank earlier this month. The bill — proposed by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Catherine Cortez Masto...
Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that non-verified users' tweets will be visible on the newly retooled recommendations feed amid a slew of changes on the social media platform. “Forgot to mention that accounts you follow directly will also be in For You, since you have explicitly asked for them,” Musk wrote in a...
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) announced on Wednesday that he will support the House GOP’s energy package, which the chamber is set to vote on this week. Gonzalez — who represents Texas’ 34th congressional district — said that while the GOP legislation is “far from perfect,” it represents a step forward in improving federal environmental review and permitting...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday called it “shameful” and “unacceptable” for some Republican lawmakers to say Congress has done as much as it can to address gun violence in the wake of a mass shooting at a Tennessee private school. “That’s unacceptable. That’s our response,” Jean-Pierre said at a briefing with reporters....
Perhaps the anonymity of online communication has shown us we aren’t exactly who we thought we were.
The White House on Wednesday warned China against taking any action viewed as threatening Taiwan, in response to fury by Beijing over a trip by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen to the U.S. this week. The Taiwanese president is transiting through New York and Los Angeles this week ahead of an official, diplomatic mission to Central...
Members of the New York Times Union on Wednesday carried out a noisy demonstration inside the newspaper's newsroom. Video taken inside the Times headquarters shows several dozen staffers engaging in a call-and-response chants screaming "what do we want ... contract! When do we want it .... now!" The Times' workers Union has for months been...
The World Health Organization (WHO) revised its advice for COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday, classifying healthy kids and teenagers as a low priority group in getting vaccinated against the virus. The WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) released new guidelines on which groups of people should prioritize receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. It lists...
First lady Jill Biden will travel to Nashville on Wednesday to mourn the victims of the elementary school shooting there earlier this week. She will participate in a candlelight vigil “to honor and mourn the lives of the victims of The Covenant School shooting,” according to her press secretary Vanessa Valdivia. The first lady will...
Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin says he’s on a mission to “help and protect young people,” as he pushed for access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) alongside a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill. “As I was growing up playing football, I don't recall ever thinking about CPR, or knowing where an AED was...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday pushed back against a GOP congressman who voiced skepticism about the threat of climate change, suggesting the issue was being used by the Biden administration to secure funding and was not a serious concern. “Can you provide to me, or do you know any research on your own to...
Most adults said they oppose laws restricting drag shows or performances as Republicans in several states push to block the shows from being seen by children, according to a new poll. The results of an NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, released Wednesday, show 58 percent of respondents said they oppose laws restricting the performances, while 39 percent...
Former President Trump praised the Manhattan grand jury investigating a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels a week after he expected to be arrested in the probe, arguing that the “evidence is so overwhelming in my favor.” “I have gained such respect for this grand jury, & perhaps even the grand...
The Biden administration held an auction of new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday in a move that is required by law but likely to further rankle environmentalists. Oil companies bid on more than 2,600 square miles of the Gulf for oil and gas development, although a total of 114,000 square miles were...
Live Nation Entertainment President and Chief Financial Officer Joe Berchtold said “speculative ticketing” is to blame for people’s difficulty with buying event tickets. Berchtold said during an interview with Axios Publisher Nicholas Johnston at the outlet’s “What’s Next Summit” on Wednesday that speculative ticketing is legal but would be considered a “deceptive” practice for any...
The FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service are offering a combined up to $20,000 reward for information that can lead to the arrest of a former chief of staff to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), according to an announcement published Tuesday. Roy McGrath, 53, served as chief of staff to Hogan for about two...
Supreme Court justices must follow strengthened financial disclosure requirements surrounding gifts and free hotel stays, which follows rising pressure from lawmakers about the high court’s ethics rules. The new regulations quietly went into effect on March 14 and clarify that the justices — and all federal judges — must disclose gifts and free stays at...
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the chair of the House Select Committee on China, said on Wednesday that he sees an “underappreciated amount of continuity” between the Trump and Biden administrations on Beijing. “I actually think there is an underappreciated amount of continuity between the Trump administration and some things that Matt Pottinger and H.R. McMaster...
Fox News host Sean Hannity's interview with former president Trump earned him a sizable bump in audience this week. Hannity's show on Monday netted just over 3 million viewers, the most of any show in the 9 p.m. hour, including 358,000 in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research figures. During the...
Howard Schultz, who was the chairman of Starbucks until stepping down March 20, will testify before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions panel Wednesday morning. His testimony follows continued attempts by committee chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and court rulings that the coffeehouse chain has engaged in illegal anti-union practices, as well as a...
Vice President Harris on Wednesday announced a global initiative to support women in the economy, touting $1 billion in funding from private sector and government investments. The White House released details of the initiative during Harris’ final day in Ghana, the first stop on a three-country visit to Africa. A significant portion of the funding...
