Proud Boy Zachary Rehl was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after being convicted of leading an inflamed mob toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election results. Addressing the court Thursday, the former Philadelphia Proud Boys chapter president said he let politics consume...
Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said Thursday the “noise” that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is too old to serve “will affect nothing.” Steele said in an interview on MSNBC, “It will not … run Mitch McConnell from his post, nor will it run [Sen.] Dianne Feinstein from hers or...
After the formal end of the COVID Public Health Emergency in May, attention in Congress has largely been focused on priorities other than the pandemic. Thankfully, many Americans have been able to return to their pre-pandemic daily routines. But for some, normality still feels a long way off. According to estimates, one in 20 Americans may...
Conservative Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are increasingly going on offense as they seek to push back against a firestorm of ethics controversies. When Thomas’s annual financial disclosure was released Thursday, the justice’s personal attorney simultaneously circulated an unusual six-page statement tearing into “left wing” groups that he said had “weaponized” ethics against...
Texas’s Supreme Court will allow a new state law banning gender-affirming health care for transgender minors to take effect Friday, denying a motion to block the state’s enforcement of the ban while a legal battle over its constitutionality is ongoing. Texas District Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel this month temporarily halted the state’s ban on gender-affirming...
The National Review, a conservative publication, on Thursday called on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to step aside from his leadership post after he appeared to freeze up at a press conference on Wednesday for the second time in recent weeks. In an editorial published on Thursday, the National Review praised McConnell’s historic tenure...
Congress recently passed legislation investing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in rebuilding America’s infrastructure, clean energy and manufacturing facilities to help keep America’s economy competitive. While that’s good news for America’s construction industry, this bonanza of government spending could not happen at a worse time for taxpayers and lawmakers seeking to maximize its return...
A federal judge in Texas has stopped the state’s ban on drag performances, which was scheduled to go into place Friday, enforcing a temporary injunction on the measure in a win for LGBTQ rights advocates. A group of drag performance groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, filed a suit against...
Overdose deaths from phony drugs are at historically high levels and are continuing to rise, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC report, conducted between July 2019 and December 2021, found that evidence of fake pill use and overdose deaths more than doubled during this period and tripled in...
Planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions pose a direct threat to the survival of polar bears — by limiting their access to the sea ice that serves as their hunting grounds, a new study has found. During ice-free summer months, the bears must fast, which in worst-case scenarios mean adults could die and, before then, lose the...
Congress is hard at work reauthorizing key safety agencies. Yet, despite devastating effects, one of the most destructive and fastest-growing safety challenges is virtually unseen. Fortunately, a clear bipartisan solution is within reach if it can gain visibility. This challenge lies silently underground yet lurks in every neighborhood, under every street, and throughout urban...
Federal authorities are investigating Tesla over its alleged use of company funds on a secret project to build CEO Elon Musk a home in Austin, Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is reportedly seeking information about how much Tesla spent on the endeavor,...
Longtime television personality Geraldo Rivera said former President Trump made him "dump him,” in reference to their falling out in late 2020 after Rivera said he would not support the former president’s election fraud theories. “I feel awful that he made me dump him,” Rivera said in an interview with The New York Times. Rivera detailed his...
President Biden on Thursday announced he will travel to Florida on Saturday in the wake of Hurricane Idalia — which has now been downgraded to a tropical storm — hitting the state. “I am going to Florida Saturday morning,” Biden said during a surprise visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington. FEMA...
Elon Musk on Thursday said that video and audio calls are coming to his X social media platform. Musk announced in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that calls would work “on iOS, Android, Mac & PC,” there would be “no phone number needed” for them and that the platform would...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Hurricane presents test for DeSantis Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has remained in the spotlight in the 2024 GOP presidential race, even as he has been off the campaign trail and focusing on the state’s response to Hurricane Idalia. © Stephen M. Dowell...
Climate change drove ocean temperatures to record heights this summer. But in a rare piece of good climate news, a study released Thursday suggests that the global fisheries that feed much of the world seem to have weathered heat waves well. “While [fish populations] are changing in response to climate change, we don’t see evidence...
President Biden said he is not concerned about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) ability to serve, one day after McConnell froze up during a public event in Kentucky. "I spoke to him today,” Biden told reporters during a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters. “He was his old self on the telephone.” Biden...
The Taliban’s message is clear: Afghan women should be invisible.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) praised President Biden and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday after the department sent its recommendation to reschedule marijuana to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), a key step in reducing federal regulations on the drug. Biden asked the HHS to look into rescheduling last year, and the...
The Latin American roots in D.C. baseball run deep. So, why don’t the Washington Nationals broadcast their games in Spanish?
NewsNation, the cable news channel owned by Nexstar Media Group, has named reporter and anchor Blake Burman as full-time host of "The Hill," its recently launched daily politics and policy table talk program. Burman joined NewNation in January as its chief Washington correspondent after a five-year stint covering the White House at Fox Business. "Blake is...
A Saudi man has been sentenced to death over his posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as his activity on YouTube — marking the latest crackdown on dissent in the country. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the judgment was brought against Mohammad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a retired schoolteacher, from Saudi Arabia's specialized...
More than 200,000 customers in Florida and Georgia are still without power after Hurricane Idalia hit earlier this week, leaving downed power poles and debris in its path of destruction. As of around 1:20 p.m. Thursday, Florida had the most reported outages at 117,258, followed by Georgia with 86,316, according to outage-tracking website PowerOutage.us. Florida’s...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Thursday dismissed the idea of calling a special legislative session to oust Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) over her case against former President Trump. “There have been calls by one individual in the General Assembly and echoed outside these walls by the former president for a special...
