Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter is off to a rocky start. The eccentric billionaire announced the rebrand of the company formerly known as Twitter, which he purchased in October for $44 billion, to X on Sunday. But the switch has been caught up in more hurdles for Musk and the changing platform. Musk and his...
Retired New York Police Department detective Mike Sapraicone on Tuesday announced a 2024 primary challenge to U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who is running for a second term despite awaiting trial on more than a dozen criminal charges and having little support from his own political party. In a statement announcing his campaign for New...
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is moving forward with plans to consider recommending that the House hold Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress. GOP members of the panel have accused Meta of not cooperating with its investigation into the company’s content moderation practices. The committee announced Tuesday that it is slated to consider...
The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Harvard University's legacy admissions process. The group Lawyers for Civil Rights Boston told The Hill the Department of Justice notified them of the investigation. The group filed a complaint at the beginning of the month on behalf of New England Black and Latino organizations under...
The White House is blasting a popular Fox News host for his commentary on the Holocaust this week. During an episode Monday of the network's top-watched table talk program "The Five," the panel discussed the state of Florida's new controversial standards for teaching Black history, which direct teachers to include instruction on “how slaves developed...
President Biden will nominate Harry Coker to be the country’s next national cyber director and replace Chris Inglis, who resigned earlier this year, the White House announced Tuesday. Coker, a national security expert, has more than four decades of experience in public service. He served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years before moving to...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story DeSantis cuts one-third of campaign staff Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has cut a significant portion of his campaign staff, the latest sign that the 2024 presidential candidate is making moves to reset. © AP Photo/Matt Rourke The campaign has cut...
Ohio announced Tuesday that abortion rights advocates have met the signature requirement to place a measure on the Nov. 7 ballot that would codify abortion rights into the state constitution. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) certified petitioners received a total of 495,938 valid signatures, exceeding the required minimum of 413,446 signatures -- equal...
Only seven months ago, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spy balloon traversed the United States, gripped the attention of the nation. Since then, the American people have become increasingly aware of CCP espionage infiltrating every industry. From higher education to social media to intellectual property theft, the CCP collects huge amounts of data to spy...
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) is holding an all-day “thirst strike” on the steps of the Capitol on Tuesday to call for a federal heat rule to protect workers amid recent record-breaking heat across the country. The Texas Democrat will not drink, eat or take a break “until nurses require him to stop,” his office said...
The Senate Committee on Finance announced Tuesday that it is conducting an investigation into billionaire and former chairman and CEO of Apollo Global Management Leon Black’s financial ties with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The investigation’s findings allegedly include a “transaction Epstein devised to help Black avoid more than $1 billion in federal taxes raises.” The...
The best thing Biden can now do is to retire after completing his term, allowing a new generation of leaders to take up the Democratic Party’s banner.
The United Nations announced Tuesday morning that it began operations to remove oil from a deteriorating supertanker, the first step toward preventing a natural disaster from unfolding in the Red Sea. “In the absence of anyone else willing or able to perform this task, the United Nations stepped up and assumed the risk to conduct...
A group of voters on Tuesday appealed a state court decision that favored New York Democrats in a legal battle over the state’s congressional map. A state appeals court earlier this month ordered the New York’s bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) to submit a new map, which would replace the existing one implemented by a court-appointed...
Vice President Harris will head to Iowa on Friday to highlight the effects of the state's recently signed abortion ban, setting up a split-screen as top GOP presidential candidates are set to speak in Iowa the same night. Harris will travel to Des Moines to host a conversation with health care providers, patients, local leaders...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign laid off 38 staff members as the campaign seeks to revamp itself amid stagnant poll numbers. “Following a top-to-bottom review of our organization, we have taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden. Governor...
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a new Biden administration rule that limited access to asylum, issuing a decision that will take effect in two weeks. The ruling from a federal judge in California is a major loss for the Biden administration, which imposed new restrictions on asylum seekers, including that they must first seek...
A trade group representing app-based tech firms is urging President Biden to not finalize worker-classification regulation until a permanent Labor secretary is confirmed. The group, Flex, has opposed Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su’s nomination to the permanent role. Flex argued in a letter to Biden that Senate’s “lack of support” for Su is due to...
The problem with Bidenomics is not what it has or has not accomplished but the fact it is conceptually flawed.
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law is slated to hold a hearing this afternoon titled “Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation.” Witnesses scheduled to testify include Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at University of California, Berkley; Yoshua Bengio, founder of Mila-Quebec AI Institute; and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Last...
President Biden is slated to deliver remarks Tuesday on expanding mental health care access. The White House announced new proposed rules focused on bolstering mental health. Under the rules, health plans would be required to make changes if they are found to be providing “inadequate access” to mental health services, based on whether they meet...
House Democrats Tuesday introduced legislation to make the nation’s legal code more inclusive to women, nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming Americans by replacing masculine generics with gender-neutral language. The “Equality in Our Laws” Act, introduced Tuesday by Reps. Summer Lee (D-Pa.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), has been endorsed by the Equal Rights Amendment...
Unlike land-based mining, which often involves extreme destruction and pollution of thousands of acres, seabed mining simply involves vacuuming up mineral-rich nodules, which sit unattached to the ocean floor.
More than 30 drugs could experience supply chain disruptions due to the tornado that damaged Pfizer's plant in North Carolina, the company warned hospitals. In a letter sent to its hospital customers last Friday, Pfizer said it identified about 65 formulations of those drugs that could experience “continued or new supply disruptions in the near-term."...
Freshman Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) is leading a resolution to censure Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over her controversial comments and actions, with the most recent being the Georgia Republican displaying censored sexual images of the president’s son Hunter Biden in a hearing last week. The resolution introduced Tuesday is a laundry list of around 40...
