A construction worker in San Francisco died Thursday after a trench collapsed under a sidewalk on him, trapping him under an estimated eight to ten feet of dirt and concrete, fire officials said. More than 50 firefighters spent over two hours trying to rescue the buried worker in the Lower Haight neighborhood, but he did...
Michael Douglas says today’s political climate — and the role money plays in it — would make Gordon Gekko absolutely giddy. The “Wall Street” actor, who famously played the devious financier Gekko, weighed in on what his character might think about moolah mixing with politics during a Thursday interview with Steve Scully on SiriusXM’s “The Briefing.” “What...
Home mortgage rates have reached the highest figure since 2000, as the average borrowing rate for 30-year home loans topped 7.31 percent this week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. The new figure is a slight increase from last week’s 7.19 percent. A year ago it was 6.70 percent. The rate continues to climb, in...
President Biden hit former President Trump in a speech on Thursday dedicated to honoring the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Biden, in making an impassioned plea for democracy and respect for the U.S. Constitution, also called on Americans to ask just what it wants. “Do we still believe in the Constitution? Do we believe in...
Nearly 100 House and Senate lawmakers signed a letter to the State Department calling for sanctions against military officials in Azerbaijan after the country took over an independent mountainous region that is home to tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians who are now fleeing the territory. Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.) led 90 lawmakers in penning...
Vaccination rates for COVID-19 and the flu have declined, and a significant portion of the U.S. population indicated they are not interested in getting either this year, according to a new survey. The survey from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases found that only about 20 percent of Americans are worried about themselves or someone...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) gathered a host of experts and advocates on Thursday to discuss the implications of artificial intelligence on civil rights. “I love technology and innovation,” Booker said at a panel discussion from the Capitol on Thursday. “But I also know that technology can elevate the power of discrimination.” The panel discussed how...
The Navy criticized Iran as “unprofessional” after a U.S. helicopter was hit with lasers Wednesday. “Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) interacted in an unsafe and unprofessional manner with a U.S. AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter, assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), as the aircraft was conducting routine operations in the...
Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black candidate running for the Republican presidential nomination, has sparked a debate around former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” and the impact it has had on Black Americans. During the second GOP presidential debate on Wednesday, Scott criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his state’s education policies, which require...
Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin (Md.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) asked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to not display “pornography” again in an impeachment hearing on Thursday. Greene was interrupted during her prepared remarks to the House Oversight and Accountability’s first hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Biden so that Raskin could bring up a...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is facing down a dual threat as Congress careens toward a government shutdown, with potential consequences for an air travel industry already struggling with waves of delays. On top of losing funding, the law establishing the agency’s authority is set to lapse without renewal. Both face a Saturday deadline. After...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story What we learned from the second GOP debate Seven Republican presidential hopefuls tangled Wednesday night in an unruly second primary debate, with time running out on convincing voters that they are viable alternatives to front-runner Donald Trump. © AP The second...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed Republicans for using a “fabricated image” in the first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Biden. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) launched an impeachment inquiry into Biden after Republicans alleged the president and his son, Hunter Biden, profited from foreign business deals. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee held its first hearing...
Student loan payments return on Oct. 1 with hope, confusion and fear clouding the restart after a three-year pause. The Biden administration is hoping to provide some relief to borrowers with a new income-driven repayment plan and an “on-ramp” repayment program, but the on-switch also comes as Congress is struggling to keep the government funded. ...
A last-ditch legal effort by former President Trump to delay the start of his civil fraud trial in New York was on Thursday denied by the state's appellate division. The trial will proceed as planned on Monday. A judge had issued a temporary pause in the sprawling civil case after Trump claimed the trial judge...
President Biden was heckled Thursday during a speech in Arizona by a climate activist who was calling for the president to declare a climate emergency. “Why have you yet to declare a climate emergency?” the person shouted from the crowd at the Tempe Center For The Arts. “Arizonians have died.” The crowd boo’ed the heckler...
Generation Z protesters were arrested outside of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) office Thursday. A group of over 150 teenagers made their way into McCarthy’s office where they demanded “he support bridge funding to keep the government open, including funding FEMA to respond to climate disasters.” Capitol Police would later arrest 18 of them outside of...
Some of the Republican-invited witnesses at the GOP’s first impeachment inquiry hearing cast doubt on whether there was enough evidence to support an impeachment of President Biden. Jonathan Turley, a go-to witness for conservatives in Congress, at one point told lawmakers that some of the details they’d gathered “really do gravitate in favor of the...
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley joined her 2024 rivals in blasting former President Trump for choosing to skip the first two primary debates. “You can’t win if you’re absent,” Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, said Thursday on Fox News. “I think that, you know, he’s got a lot of questions to answer to.”...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Thursday to raise fast food workers’ minimum wage to $20 per hour, giving the state’s fast food workers one of the highest minimum wages in the country. The law, which will take effect April, comes after a major push from California’s fast food workers and labor unions, who held...
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will be in Las Vegas Sunday for his first campaign rally in Nevada, his campaign announced Thursday. “The path to victory in 2024 runs through states like Nevada, which is why I’m thrilled to be making our first major campaign stop in the state this weekend,” he said in a statement....
The Biden administration will release on Friday its long-awaited plan that maps out the next five years of offshore drilling, a top official said. “We'll be publishing the five-year program tomorrow,” Deputy Interior Secretary Tommy Beaudreau said in response to questions from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) during a Senate hearing Thursday. “The program is definitely informed...
The Education Department is urging colleges to ramp up their diversity efforts in the wake of a June Supreme Court ruling to restrict the use of race-based admission practices at universities. The Education Department issued a report Thursday outlining ways higher education institutions can promote more diversity in their admission practices, including boosting scholarships and minority recruiting....
The CEO of Hawaiian Electric on Thursday defended her company’s decision not to cut the power to certain lines ahead of devastating fires, insisting the company was following protocol. “Those decisions were made years before as part of … our protocols,” CEO Shelee Kimura told lawmakers during a House hearing. “In 2019 our team started...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) told reporters Thursday that he would support a resolution to expel embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) from Congress but such a measure would need 67 Senate votes to succeed. Fetterman also said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) should call on Menendez to step down from office after federal prosecutors accused...
