A rural Delaware town is seeking to allow local businesses to vote, causing concern that corporate interests could sway local elections. Seaford, Del., with a population of about 7,000 in the state’s rural west, changed its charter in April to allow each business in the town one vote in local elections. For that measure to...
Coast Guard officials briefed the media Thursday following the discovery of debris determined to belong to the Titan submersible, which lost contact with its support crew less than two hours after embarking on its dive to the wreckage of the Titanic on Sunday.
American beekeepers lost nearly half of their hives in the 2022 growing season. That's just a bit lower than the previous highest loss on record — which occurred the previous year, according to a report published on Thursday. Both years represented an unusually high fatality rate even for the embattled honeybee, a critical pollinator whose keepers have for decades faced a heartbreaking...
The list of Democratic lawmakers boycotting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's joint address to Congress on Thursday is growing. Progressive Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Summer Lee (D-Pa.) on Thursday said they wouldn't attend the event. They join fellow progressive Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). “When...
Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson announced she will resign at the end of the month, after serving in her post since 2019. “It has been a distinct privilege to serve as clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives during three Congresses and an honor to have been first nominated by Speaker Pelosi and then...
{beacon} Evening Report Thursday, June 22 © AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Why some Dems are skipping Modi's address A handful of House Democrats are boycotting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to a joint meeting of Congress today, citing concerns about human rights in the country. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) on Wednesday joined Reps....
Sales of electronic cigarettes spiked during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, driven largely by fruity- and candy-flavored disposable products, according to data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the advocacy organization Truth Initiative. E-cigarette sales rose by 46.6 percent from January 2020 to December 2022 —...
Tell It Like It Is, the super PAC backing Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, has released a new ad targeting former President Trump over his handling of classified documents and knocking Trump’s recent comments that he didn’t have time to go through materials and return them to the government. “Donald Trump had a choice: comply with...
TikTok's chief operating officer V Pappas will step down from their role with the company after five years, the video-sharing company confirmed. In a company memo, obtained by The Hill, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew announced Pappas's departure from the company, saying they will now focus instead on “entrepreneurial passions.” “I want to take this...
OceanGate said in a statement Thursday that all five passengers of its Titan submersible that went missing Sunday during a visit to the 1912 wreck of the Titanic are believed to be dead. "We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) denied rumors that he is considering a 2024 presidential bid Thursday, hours after The New York Times published a report making the assertion. “What’s accurate is I’m running for the Senate, I’m not running for president,” Scott told reporters. His commitment to another Senate reelection bid would throw out the possibility...
Vice President Harris now has the second-highest number of tiebreaking votes in the history of the Senate after she voted on a judicial nominee on Wednesday. Harris cast the tiebreaking vote to invoke cloture and end debate on the nomination of Natasha Merle to become a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New...
A massive recall of frozen fruits is underway across the country that includes such retail stores as Walmart, Target and Aldi.
The Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to ratify the U.S.-Chilean tax treaty, putting a cap on a years-long journey through the upper chamber for the measure. The Senate voted 95-2 on the treaty, which first came up for consideration 11 years ago. A two-thirds majority was needed for the treaty to pass. Sens. Josh Hawley...
Story at a glance Los Angeles, Houston, and New York are the loudest cities in the nation, according to a new survey. The lifestyle publication for seniors, Retirement Living, ranked 99 of the most populated U.S. cities based on their noise pollution level. Some of the factors taken into account when tabulating each city’s...
House Republicans on Thursday passed a resolution condemning the use of elementary and secondary school grounds as migrant shelters. The resolution, which will not have practical consequences, passed on a purely party-line vote, with 219 Republicans in favor, and 206 Democrats against. Still, it adds another chapter to the ongoing partisan wrangling over how to...
A Norfolk Southern engineer expressed concerns to a supervisor about the length of the train that would later derail in East Palestine, Ohio, but the reservations went unaddressed, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The NTSB report released Thursday said the engineer, from Decatur, Ill., expressed the concerns to the yardmaster but was...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday brushed aside a question about human rights abuses and democratic backsliding in his country. Modi took a question from a U.S. Wall Street Journal reporter during a joint appearance with President Biden during an official state visit at the White House, where he was asked about concerns that...
Imagine if a foreign government passed a law that shredded personal freedom, decimated an industry relied upon by generations of working families, exacerbated ethnic tensions, and put law enforcement in the crosshairs. Such an act is normally associated with totalitarian regimes like Russia or China. Yet right here in the Land of Liberty, the U.S. government is...
President Biden on Thursday said that he doesn’t think that calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator impacted the U.S.-China relationship. “I don’t think it’s had any real consequence,” Biden said during remarks at the White House alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Biden on Tuesday, while fundraising in Kentsfield, Calif., said to a group of donors...
House Republicans on Thursday neutered an effort to impeach President Biden, punting the resolution to a pair of committees and avoiding — for now — a politically perilous vote that threatened to split the GOP and undermine the party’s various investigations into the White House. The 219-208 party-line vote ends a two-day clash between GOP leaders...
An anti-scalping bill nicknamed the “Taylor Swift law” is being proposed in Brazil, where the singer-songwriter is set to bring her Eras Tour for five concerts later this year. “I will not back down until the ‘Taylor Swift Law’ is passed and makes it a crime for ticket scalpers to sell tickets in Brazil!” Simone...
A new rule from two U.S. safety agencies would require heavy trucks and buses to come equipped with automatic emergency braking systems within the next five years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced the proposed rule Thursday, estimating that such braking systems could prevent more than 19,000 crashes...
Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee issued a new request Thursday for documents from Norfolk Southern, alleging the railroad company has failed to produce documents on its derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this year. In the letter, ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and the panel’s other Democrats said CEO Alan Shaw...
The number of homes for sale posted an annual decline for the first time in more than a year while falling to the lowest level on record, according to a new report. Homes listed on the market dropped by 7.1 percent from a year ago in May to 1.4 million units on a seasonally adjusted basis,...
