NEW YORK—Former President Trump arrived at Trump Tower in Manhattan Monday afternoon ahead of his arraignment, now just one day away. The former president’s motorcade pulled up at approximately 4:10 p.m. to the 58-story skyscraper, where Trump is expected to stay the night. Dozens of the former president's supporters gathered along 5th Avenue outside the...
First lady Jill Biden’s plane experienced an aircraft issue on Monday while on its way to Michigan, and it was diverted back to Colorado. The plane landed safely in Denver Monday afternoon after it had taken off from Colorado to bring the first lady to Michigan. “Everyone is safe. We’re back on the ground in...
President Biden on Monday said he has faith in New York City's police ahead of potential unrest in the city surrounding former President Trump’s Tuesday court date. “No, I have faith in the New York Police Department,” Biden said to questions about whether he’s concerned about unrest. The president added on Monday that he also...
The Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday against school officials, alleging they were negligent in heeding warning signs that could have prevented the shooting. Abigail Zwerner's legal team announced that they would be suing the Newport News School Board and the school's administrators for what they called gross...
Federal health officials on Monday outlined a new framework aimed at helping to implement the White House "Cancer Moonshot" initiative. One of the main goals of the Moonshot initiative is to reduce cancer mortality by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years. To accomplish that, the new National Cancer Plan includes eight distinct...
CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl is coming under some criticism for how she handled an interview with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.), which aired over the weekend. Stahl, a longtime broadcast news journalist working for "60 Minutes," sat with Greene, a firebrand conservative House member, for an extensive interview during which Stahl pressed the...
Federal clean energy tax credits are accelerating a nationwide wave of coal plant closures, as those facilities can no longer economically compete. That’s driving a wave of state-level legislation and national rhetoric from the GOP aimed at keeping coal plants online. But cost concerns — as much as those around climate — mean that the...
A top white collar criminal defense lawyer has been hired as the lead counsel representing former President Trump following his indictment in a Manhattan criminal case, a Trump spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. Todd Blanche, a former federal prosecutor, is joining the Trump team after leaving New York law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where...
Less automobile traffic and cleaner air mean that enhancing public transit is an investment with quality of life and public health benefits — not a cost.
ActBlue, the Democratic online fundraising clearinghouse, laid off roughly 17 percent of its staff on Monday as part of what the nonprofit said was a “restructuring” that would help ensure its “long-term financial sustainability.” Exactly how many employees were affected by the layoffs is unclear, but both union and nonunion staff were included in the...
Country music star Kelsea Ballerini used the opening segment of country music's CMT Awards show to pay tribute to the victims of last week’s school shooting in Nashville, Tenn. “On March 27, 2023, three nine-year-olds – Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs — along with Katherine Koonce, Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill walked into...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in a new interview ducked a question about whether she’ll challenge Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for her New York Senate seat. “There’s a world where I’m here for a long time in this seat, in this position. There’s a world where I’m not an elected official anymore. There’s a world where...
We still have a lot to learn about Candida Auris and fungi in general.
Amazon’s spending on labor consultants soared to $14.2 million last year amid its effort to quash union drives within the company, according to a Labor Department filing. That’s more than triple the total from the previous year, when Amazon first began to confront organizing efforts at its warehouses. An Amazon warehouse in Staten Island became...
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Monday that the Biden administration will do everything it can to bring home two Americans detained in Russia. “We will do everything we can to get Evan home,” Kirby said, referring to Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist for the Wall Street Journal who was detained last week...
Michelle Obama says being "othered" as a child helped propel her aim to be "the best first lady.” “We cannot pretend that kids don't see when they're being devalued, because anytime it happened to me as early as kindergarten, I knew it,” Obama told David Letterman in a preview clip from Audible’s “Michelle Obama: The...
President Biden is expected to skip the coronation of King Charles III next month, according to a source familiar with the plans. Instead, the source said first lady Jill Biden will lead a delegation to the United Kingdom for the coronation, set to take place on May 6. The White House did not answer a...
Turnitin, a popular program educators use to detect plagiarism in student papers, announced Monday it has added “AI detection capabilities” amid the boom of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence platforms. Turnitin can detect “the use of AI writing tools including ChatGPT, with 98 percent confidence,” it said in a press release. “Educators told us that...
Fast food giant McDonald’s is temporarily shuttering its U.S. offices as the company readies to let employees know about layoffs, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. McDonald’s told U.S. employees and some international staff to work from home Monday through Wednesday so the company can “communicate key decisions related to roles and staffing...
The Department of Justice and FBI investigators have more evidence of possible obstruction by former President Trump in the probe into classified documents found during the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate last summer, according to a new report from the Washington Post. The Post, citing anonymous sources, reports that investigators now have new evidence...
Engine and alternative power manufacturer Cummins is set to announce a $1 billion investment across their U.S. engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and New York, according to the White House. The company’s announcement aligns with President Biden’s visit to the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minn., on Monday, which is part of...
In the early 2000s, the city of St. Paul, Minn., cracked down on landlords who ignored rat problems, bad sanitation, poor heating, and so on. But instead of shaping up, the landlords sued the city for violating the federal Fair Housing Act. They argued that St. Paul’s insistence upon habitable homes hurt minorities by forcing...
The unprecedented indictment of former President Trump creates a political puzzle and problem for Republican leaders in Washington who are divided over how to respond to it and have differing views about what it means for the future of their party. Some Republicans, such as Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), are...
Republicans are grappling with their weaknesses with Generation Z, as the voting bloc continues to flex its strength ahead of 2024. Generation Z voters overwhelmingly align with Democrats on issues like gun control, abortion, climate change, and LGBTQ issues, posing a challenge for the GOP as it looks to appeal to the younger demographic. Seventy-seven...
Tensions are running high in the final days of Chicago’s mayoral race, in a contest that has laid bare divisions between local Democrats over some of the party’s most contentious national issues. As Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson vie to become the next leader of America’s third-largest city, supporters have dialed up their rhetoric, with...
