For all its stress, the pandemic gave some people a chance to reflect on what their ideal work-life balance would be. Maybe it would be great to work remotely from a state that offers more green space and chances to get outdoors, or to become part of a new community. As offices have started to...
Former President Trump is leading his closest rival for the 2024 Republican nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, by 24 points in Iowa, according to a new poll. The New York Times/Siena College poll found that 44 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers said they would support the former president, while 20 percent said they would...
Italy’s defense minister stated that the nation’s 2019 decision to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative was both “improvised and atrocious.”
Nearly half of Republicans in a survey released on Thursday said they would not vote for former President Trump if he were convicted of a felony. The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 45 percent of Republicans said they would not vote for Trump if he were convicted, while 35 percent said they would still cast their...
With time, the rescued climate talks can serve as a bridge to a stronger U.S.-China relationship.
Either the U.S. government has mounted an extraordinary, decades-long coverup of UFO retrieval and reverse engineering activities, or elements of the defense and intelligence establishment are engaging in a staggeringly brazen psychological disinformation campaign.
Strong economic indicators have continued to make the case for a solid American economy, but a slew of new jobs data has policymakers and consumers looking at current conditions in different ways. The case for how and what type of unemployment is measured often leaves economists, lawmakers and market watchers at odds over what exactly...
Former President Trump is facing a risking number of legal cases as he battles for the GOP presidential nomination. Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and his efforts to stay in power. It's the third time Trump has entered a not guilty...
A growing share of working Americans don’t think they will ever retire, recent surveys suggest. Retirement is a time-honored life stage and a near-universal expectation in working America. Yet, a comfortable retirement requires savings, and many workers fear they don’t have enough. In a July poll conducted jointly by Axios and Ipsos, 29 percent of...
President Biden and former President Trump are tied in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a new Emerson College poll released on Friday. Biden and Trump each garnered 44 percent support from Michigan voters, while eight percent said they would vote for someone else and five percent said they are undecided. However, the poll...
Republican allies of Donald Trump are stepping up their attacks on Washington, D.C., District Judge Tanya Chutkan and the D.C. court itself, arguing it would be impossible for the former president to get a fair trial in the nation’s capital city. Judge Chutkan’s ruling against Trump two years ago in a legal dispute over handing...
Former Trump administration national security advisor John Bolton had harsh words for the former president, calling his foreign policy “erratic” and ineffective. “Donald Trump doesn’t really have a philosophy, as we understand it in political terms,” Bolton said in a Thursday interview on The Hill's show on NewsNation. “He doesn’t think in policy directions when...
A group of 38 House Democrats penned a letter Thursday to the body overseeing federal courts requesting that former President Trump’s election fraud trial be publicly televised live. “It is imperative the [court] ensures timely access to accurate and reliable information surrounding these cases and all of their proceedings, given the extraordinary national importance to...
U.S. House Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said on Thursday she doesn’t think the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack was aware of notes taken by former Vice President Mike Pence during meetings with Donald Trump when he was making false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Special Counsel Jack...
President Biden has maintained that a rule restricting asylum is crucial to his administration's efforts in managing the U.S.-Mexico border, but in late July a lower court decision found the policy to be illegal and ordered it to be terminated by Monday. But in a turn of events, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on...
John Lauro, the lawyer handling former President Trump's recent indictment over alleged election fraud, said the federal prosecutor’s potential wishes for a trial early next year would infringe on the former president’s rights. “Speedy trial rights are a defendant’s speedy trial rights, a citizen’s speedy trial rights, not the government. The government has an obligation...
The two Tennessee House members expelled in April over a gun control protest have won back their seats. Reps. Justin Jones (D) and Justin Pearson (D) defeated their special election rivals on Thursday and will fully rejoin the state legislature. Jones defeated Laura Nelson (R) in the House District 52 race, encompassing much of eastern Nashville, Tenn....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended the first preventive Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) treatment for infants on Thursday, shortly after a key panel endorsed the product. CDC Director Mandy Cohen adopted the guidance recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Thursday for the administration of nirsevimab, or Beyfortus....
At a press briefing Thursday, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Texas’ anti-immigration buoy barriers in the Rio Grande are “inhumane.” Mexican officials made complaints against the use of the barriers in an official letter to the U.S. government last month. López Obrador’s comments come after two bodies were found in the Rio Grande...
In a Thursday interview on Fox News, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said former President Donald Trump’s third indictment is expanding and solidifying support for his 2024 presidential bid. “I do think the end result, the takeaway is, I think this just strengthens, just hardens the support for President Trump and frankly expands it,” Jordan said....
Courtroom 22 at the D.C. federal courthouse has seen its fair share of defendants over the years. But never a former president. That changed Thursday afternoon, when former President Trump entered and proceeded to be arraigned on four criminal charges stemming from his efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election. The Hill was...
Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who was on duty during the Jan. 6 insurrection and has been a prominent critic of former President Trump since, said action should have been taken sooner after rioters broke into the Capitol Building. “They should have arrested him on January 7, but I’m not the one doing the investigation,”...
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) said Wednesday that she is “livid” that New York City is receiving more than $100 million in federal funds to help cover the cost of providing services to asylum seekers. “What we’re experiencing here in Arizona is matched only by what folks are experiencing in southern Texas,” Sinema said during an...
The U.S. on Thursday announced the arrest of two Navy sailors in California who are accused of handing over sensitive and classified military secrets to Chinese intelligence agents. Before their arrest this week, both sailors successfully transmitted secrets to Chinese intelligence in exchange for financial bribes, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Suzanne Turner, assistant...
Republican presidential candidate and former Rep. Will Hurd (Texas) said former President Trump’s arraignment could be his election downfall, calling on voters to reject the race’s leading candidate. “The fact that a former president is in our nation's capital, in front of a judge, having to plead in a contest about trying to overturn an...
