Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson says he holds no ill will toward the network, which fired him earlier this year days after it settled a blockbuster defamation lawsuit. “This is not the first time I’ve been fired. And I think in our business, when you work for a big company in media and you...
Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has spent more than $5.4 million in the first five months of his investigation into former President Trump's handling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a newly released report. About $2.6 million of that total paid for personnel compensation and benefits, and...
In late June, the Democratic majority on the Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) released a 106-page report reiterating, in essence, what the House January 6 Select Committee claimed previously: that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security failed to predict the attempted coup mounted by outgoing President Donald Trump and roughly 2000 of his most...
The Justice Department indicted a former Army Reserves major and financial counselor Friday for an alleged fraud scheme targeting Gold Star families — the loved ones of soldiers who died in military service. Caz Craffy, 41, of Colts Neck, N.J., was charged with 10 crimes, including six counts of wire fraud as well as securities...
Former President Trump argued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis initially lagged in the 2018 Florida GOP gubernatorial primary because he was a "lousy candidate" during an Iowa event on Friday. "He was so far behind, 'cause, you know why? 'Cause he was a lousy candidate, and I endorsed him and he became like a rocket ship,...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one of the most vocal progressives on Capitol Hill, has backed President Biden’s reelection bid. Ocasio-Cortez told the "Pod Save America" podcast Thursday she would support Biden, who faces two long-shot challengers in the 2024 Democratic primary. “I believe, given that field, yes,” Ocasio-Cortez said when asked whether she would support...
The White House on Friday confirmed there have been talks with Russia about a potential prisoner swap involving detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. “I do not want to give false hope,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters. “There have been discussions, but those discussions have not produced a clear pathway.” “We have...
In recent years, China has become a rising and increasingly influential global power. While most have turned a blind eye to the advancing shadow of Chinese interest creeping into the Western Hemisphere; America must not be blind to the ramification of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) extension of their One Belt Initiative in the...
Countries belonging to the United Nations’s shipping agency reached an agreement Friday to reach net zero emissions from shipping by midcentury. In the announcement, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said the deal will set a target of net zero by 2050 from shipping among its 175 countries, “taking into account different international circumstances.” Maritime shipping...
The unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent in June as the economy added 209,000 jobs, solid gains following the Federal Reserve's first pause of one of the fastest interest rate-hiking cycles the U.S. central bank has ever carried out. Labor force participation held steady at 62.6 percent for the fourth month in a row, and...
A Canadian court found that a thumbs-up emoji was as legally valid as a contract signature in a dispute between a farmer and a grain buyer in Saskatchewan. South West Terminal (SWT), a grain and crops input company, sued Achter Land & Cattle for breach of contract after it failed to deliver 87 metric tonnes...
A federal court in Texas imposed 90 consecutive life sentences to the man who killed 23 people and injured 23 others in a xenophobia-inspired mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart in 2019. Patrick Crusius pleaded guilty in February to 90 federal charges, including hate crimes, and was awaiting sentencing. The sentencing hearing began Wednesday,...
President Biden faces an important challenge: to face down the polluters and their lackeys in Congress.
To view past editions of The Hill's 12:30 Report, click here: https://bit.ly/41ZMHnw To receive The Hill's 12:30 Report in your inbox, please sign up here: https://bit.ly/3qmIoS9 --> A midday take on what's happening in politics and how to have a sense of humor about it.* *Ha. Haha. Hahah. Sniff. Haha. Sniff. Ha--breaks down crying hysterically. TALK OF THE MORNING Report...
As we feel the impact of increasingly intense heat waves and droughts, the time has come to revisit the challenges of the water-energy nexus.
Prosecutors working on the classified documents case against former President Trump have reportedly faced threats and harassment as the legal battle proceeds. The Washington Post, citing a government official and extremism experts, reported Thursday that prosecutors involved in the case have faced significant harassment and threats online and elsewhere. Trump supporters have posted the names...
Instead of Russian and Chinese naval vessels in Havana Harbor, we could have cruise ships there with thousands of visiting American tourists.
Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub sued New York City Thursday over a new rule that would require the food delivery companies to pay their workers nearly $18 an hour. In two lawsuits filed in the New York Supreme Court, the food delivery companies sued to block the rule from going into effect next week. DoorDash and...
The U.S. added 209,000 jobs in June, according to the jobs report released by the Labor Department on Friday morning, the smallest monthly jobs gain since December 2020. Government, health care and social assistance saw the biggest gains, while other major industries saw little to no change. The unemployment rate, which has ranged from 3.4...
A wobbly jobs picture is just one of several reasons that the president’s current “Bidenomics” tour may end badly.
Republican Tom Barrett filed Friday to run for Rep. Elissa Slotkin's (D-Mich.) seat, which is being vacated as Slotkin runs for Senate in 2024. Barrett filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, though the former GOP state senator's bid was anticipated after one of his strategists had confirmed earlier this year that he would be...
As the temperature topped 115 degrees in parts of Texas last week, Gov. Abbot signed a sweeping new law eliminating mandated water breaks for certain laborers.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the company’s new social media platform Threads saw 30 million downloads within the first few hours of its launch. “Wow, 30 million sign ups as of this morning,” Zuckerberg said in a Thursday morning post on Threads. “Feels like the beginning of something special, but we've got a...
CNN’s Abby Phillip got into a tense exchange on Thursday with an attorney who has represented many defendants from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot over the extent of the violence on the day. Phillip questioned John Pierce, who is representing Jan. 6 defendant Kenneth Thomas among others, about Thomas’s request that a judge denied...
The Justice Department on Thursday night requested a stay against a federal judge’s order limiting the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies over free speech concerns. Lawyers led by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bryan Boynton wrote in a filing before U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty in Louisiana that the order’s “broad scope...
