Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro testified in federal court Monday that former President Trump made it "very clear" executive privilege should be invoked over testimony he was subpoenaed to give the House Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack last year. Navarro was charged with contempt of Congress after refusing to cooperate with...
A centuries-old time capsule was opened Monday at West Point Academy to reveal nothing but silt. The opening of the capsule — which was about a one foot cube — was livestreamed on West Point’s YouTube channel Monday morning in a ceremony in Thayer Hall. The box was found in the base of a monument...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story DeSantis urges residents in Florida to prepare for Idalia Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to hit the Sunshine State mid-week, with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) warning residents to prepare for a potentially "nasty" Category 3 hurricane....
President Biden on Monday met with relatives of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders at the White House on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, underscoring the need for continued work on racial equality with the backdrop of a deadly, racially motivated shooting in Florida. Biden and Vice President Harris...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) presidential campaign Monday railed against former President Trump’s suggestion that DeSantis might drop out of the 2024 presidential election, calling Trump’s claim “fake news.” “This is fake news,” DeSantis’ press secretary Bryan Griffin wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Clearly, Donald Trump and his army of consultants are...
House Republicans are asking the Justice Department to lay out the scope of the Hunter Biden investigation after prosecutor David Weiss was appointed as a special counsel in the matter. Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware who has been leading a five-year investigation into Biden, was appointed as special counsel earlier this month after a...
Former President Trump and his campaign Monday lashed out at the federal judge overseeing his trial in Washington, D.C., over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election shortly after she scheduled his trial to begin for March. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan set Trump’s D.C. trial for March 4 after special counsel Jack Smith’s team...
O.J. Simpson on Sunday released a video suggesting Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is “onto something” but said he should "untie" himself from some in the party, floating the idea he could run alongside fellow candidate Nikki Haley. “Just like the debates, the Republican debates, I said, ‘Hey, this guy’s onto something,’” Simpson said of...
Chipotle has agreed to pay more than $300,000 after an investigation revealed hundreds of potential violations of the District of Columbia's child labor laws at Chipotle restaurants in the city, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced. Schwalb's office said in a press release Monday that an investigation found more than 800 “potential violations” of D.C.’s...
Hawaii’s electric utility company acknowledged its downed power lines started the first wildfire on Maui, but faulted county firefighters who declared the fire contained and left the scene before a second fire broke out in the area. The company is facing a lawsuit from the county, which blames it for the deadliest U.S. wildfire in...
A Texas law that prevents health care providers from administering gender-affirming care to transgender minors will take effect as planned this week after the state attorney general’s office filed to appeal a judge’s temporary injunction. Texas District Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel on Friday temporarily halted the state’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, writing in a...
Tennessee Democrat state Rep. Justin Jones is planning to call for a vote of no confidence in the state House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R), he announced Monday. “This morning, my office delivered this letter to Speaker Cameron Sexton and my legislative colleagues, sharing the intent to call for a vote of no confidence in the...
A new report from the Treasury Department is singing the praises of labor unions as several high-profile strikes and labor contract negotiations reverberate across the economy. The report situates unions within the concept of the middle class and finds that unions help to raise wages and benefits for workers and have economic “spillover effects” that...
In recent years, a worrisome trend has gripped our nation’s capital markets: the proliferation of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria in investment decisions. While it is well-intentioned in concept, ESG investments are less diversified, have higher fees, and lower returns and have been hijacked by a small group of liberal elites with their own...
Tampa International Airport (TPA) announced it will close Tuesday ahead of Tropical Storm Idalia, which is forecasted to strengthen into a Category 3 hurricane by Wednesday as it threatens Florida with dangerous rains, winds and storm surge. TPA said it will suspend all commercial operations beginning at 12:01 a.m. EST on Tuesday and will remain closed until the...
Workers across California are grappling with yet another climate change-induced threat: a rapidly spreading fungus that can land its unsuspecting victims with prolonged flu-like symptoms, or far worse. The culprit is a soil-dwelling organism called coccidioides, which is now spreading the disease coccidioidomycosis — known as “Valley fever” — farther and farther north of its southwest origins. Rather than spreading...
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has taken the stand in Atlanta as he argues his charges in the Georgia election case should be moved to federal court, according to multiple reports. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other outlets reported that Meadows unexpectedly testified for hours on Monday and will continue this afternoon. Meadows...
The Department of Transportation (DOT) fined American Airlines $4.1 million for allegedly violating federal rules during tarmac delays, including those governing the length of time flights can keep passengers onboard without providing an opportunity to deplane. The DOT said in a statement that the fine is the largest ever levied against a carrier for violating...
The Biden administration announced Monday an additional $2.5 billion in climate resilience funds for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The funds include $1.8 billion through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) competitive grant program and another $642 million through the Flood Mitigation Assistance program. The Department of Homeland Security earlier in May announced...
An armed and dangerous person was reported on or near the campus of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Monday afternoon, according to university police. The UNC police issued an alert just after 1 p.m. saying that police reported an armed and dangerous person near the campus. The officials did not provide...
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden greeted Washington, D.C. middle schoolers on their first day of school on Monday. The president went to Eliot-Hine Middle School in northeast D.C. and met with seventh and eighth graders. “This is like the Beatles,” one staff member at the school said when the Bidens arrived. They first...
Pundit Alyssa Farah Griffin took a shot at GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy after the Republican used Nikki Haley's maiden name on his campaign website. "Of course Vivek is referring to Nikki Haley by her maiden name - Namrata Randhawa - on his his website," Farah Griffin, who is a political analyst for CNN...
Floridians can now add "Idalia" to the growing list of "I"-named hurricanes to target the state.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida convened at Camp David to discuss North Korea and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) increasing hostility and roll out a series of economic and military-centered initiatives. As a proud American who was born in South Korea, lived...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson pushed back on claims that the government is hiding information about UFOs and aliens from the American public. “Do you think the government is that competent, that they can actually keep such a secret? Oh, my gosh, when did you get that much confidence in the U.S. government?” Tyson said to...
