Republican governors are calling on the Biden administration to release more detailed statistics on immigration and asylum processing, while accusing President Biden of incentivizing "illegal immigration." In a letter to Biden on Tuesday, 25 governors spearheaded by Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) asked for detailed information on "where the migrants admitted at the southern border...
The Federal Reserve looked bullish on a “soft landing” scenario for the economy following the latest meeting of its interest-rate setting committee, which concluded Wednesday with a decision to hold rates where they are at a range of 5.25 percent to 5.5 percent. While U.S. central bankers made healthier projections on key economic metrics like...
This week, the California Academy of Sciences revealed the age of a beloved Australian lungfish who is the oldest living aquarium fish in the world.
At a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned a potential government shutdown would set back progress the department has made on air travel. At Wednesday’s hearing, committee members sought information from Buttigieg about the U.S. Department of Transportation’s infrastructure funding and current projects, but they also took the opportunity to...
Composers and songwriters are heading to Washington to speak with lawmakers about putting in place protections for creators amid the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Around 30 members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Society (ASCAP) will meet with members of Congress Thursday to talk about the threats AI is already...
The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is canceling $37 million in student loan debt for students of the online University of Phoenix. The money will cancel the debt for 1,200 former students whom the administration said were tricked into believing the for-profit school had connections with Fortune 500 companies. The borrowers who received forgiveness had...
Republican Kari Lake is "likely to make a final decision in October" on a potential Senate bid in Arizona, Lake senior adviser Caroline Wren told The Hill. Lake, who narrowly lost the Arizona governor's race to Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) last year, is considering a run for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's (I-Ariz.) seat in 2024. Sinema...
Democrats marked the 12th anniversary of the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy Wednesday by relaunching an effort to investigate the lasting impacts of military policies that discriminated against LGBTQ service members and veterans. The proposal, introduced by Reps. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), would create...
Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel is reportedly in hot water with Biden administration aides for recent social media posts. The social media posts include Emanuel questioning the recent whereabouts of Chinese government officials and accusing Chinese President Xi Jinping of disinformation. “President Xi's cabinet lineup is now resembling Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were...
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story UN chief: Humans have ‘opened the gates to hell’ United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued an ominous warning about the dire effects of climate change — calling for governments and business to take urgent action. © AP Photo/Themba Hadebe “Humanity has opened...
The Biden administration said Wednesday it is relaunching a program that allows Americans to order free COVID-19 tests through the mail, ahead of a potential surge of infections this winter. The website, Covidtests.gov, will relaunch for new orders on Monday. Households will be able to order up to four tests, which are intended for use...
Former President Trump knocked conservative pundit Megyn Kelly on Wednesday, calling her "nasty" just days after sitting with her for an extensive interview. "I sat down for an hour and then I did a Megyn Kelly one," Trump told a crowd of supporters during a campaign event in Iowa on Wednesday, apparently referring to his...
The House Judiciary met with an emboldened Attorney General Merrick Garland, who vigorously defended his department and the handling of a high-profile investigation into the president’s son that has become central to the GOP’s impeachment inquiry. Garland’s first appearance before the panel since the GOP takeover of the House showed an attorney general eager to...
The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to revive cases against seven officials in connection with the Flint Water crisis, marking what could be the end of the road in a long legal battle. The state’s high court, in orders issued Wednesday, denied an appeal of a lower court’s decision to dismiss the charges, saying it...
Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and two Fulton County, Ga., election workers jointly proposed three potential trial dates this winter in the workers’ lawsuit against the former New York mayor. A judge found Giuliani automatically liable for defaming election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after Giuliani resisted turning over discovery in the case. The...
Ray Epps, a former Marine who became the focus of conspiracy theories that alleged he was an FBI informant, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot as part of a deal with government prosecutors. Epps, 62, admitted to engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) dismissed former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s recent criticism of the Keystone State's automatic voter registration system, calling Miller “a dope.” When asked on CNN’s “This Morning” to respond to a post from Miller, who argued the new system will not have citizenship verification, Shapiro said, “Look, I’m not going to respond to Stephen...
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) led a bipartisan press conference Wednesday in support of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) expanding compensation under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). The original RECA passed in 1990 with the goal of compensating Americans who had health problems, such as cancer,...
California Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman on Wednesday called out his district neighbor, Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa, over the latter's minimization of climate change. Following a back-and-forth between LaMalfa and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during a House panel on transportation policy, Huffman opened his remarks with a subtle swipe. "Mr. Secretary, it's good to see you. You can...
Mark Reuss, the president of General Motors (GM), called out the United Auto Workers (UAW) for a “flow of misinformation" amid the ongoing strikes. “Amid the rhetoric of the United Auto Workers leadership, the flow of misinformation is not fair to anyone,” Reuss wrote in an op-ed published in the Detroit Free Press Wednesday. "It...
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink revealed Tuesday that it will begin testing its medical device in human trials. The company announced that the human trials will be used to evaluate the safety of its “fully implantable, wireless brain-computer interface.” It will test the effectiveness and safeness of the company’s implant and surgical robot, which aims to...
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday grew visibly upset when questioned about potential religious discrimination in the Justice Department, saying it’s “outrageous” to suggest he would support discriminatory policies, given his family history fleeing religious persecution. In a line of questioning during Garland’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Rep. Jeff Van Drew...
ATLANTA (AP) — Three of the Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely claiming that then-President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 were not fake electors, their lawyers argued Wednesday, but instead were a “contingent" slate in case the original election results were tossed out by a court. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones heard...
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) pushed back on conservatives' accusations of weaponization of the Justice Department during Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Wednesday testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. While questioning Garland, Cohen asked about a previous investigation into fellow House Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) related to allegations of sex trafficking in an attempt to push back...
Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson alleged in her new book that Rudy Giuliani groped her backstage during former President Trump's rally on Jan. 6, 2021, just hours before the riot on the Capitol. Hutchinson claimed Giuliani, who served as Trump's former personal attorney, of moving his hand “under my blazer, then my skirt,” in an...
