NASA on Wednesday celebrated 25 years of the International Space Station’s (ISS) operations. The first two modules of the ISS, named Zayra and Unity, were joined together 25 years ago on Dec. 6, 1998. NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana and ISS Program Manager Joel Montalbano spoke to the seven members of the Expedition 70 crew...
Oakland, Calif., public school teachers conducted a pro-Palestine teach-in on Wednesday despite a lack of support from their district. A group within the Oakland Education Association decided to conduct a teach-in where pro-Palestine materials would be taught in classrooms, The New York Times reported. The group made a list of suggested material, which calls...
Corey “Al-Ameen” Patterson has never voted in any election. That’s because since November 2009, Patterson has been serving a 15-years-to-life sentence at Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk. Since being incarcerated, Patterson’s right to vote has been revoked. In a testimony before members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Patterson said this means the society that he...
Nevada's attorney general on Wednesday announced charges against six so-called fake electors who falsely claimed former President Trump won the state in the 2020 presidential election. "When the efforts to undermine faith in our democracy began after the 2020 election, I made it clear that I would do everything in my power to defend the...
As we seek to modernize college sports, it's critical that we do so in a way that ensures HBCUs are in position to continue creating life-changing opportunities for young people, bringing our campuses to life and flourishing for generations to come.
First lady Jill Biden is hosting a White House Toys for Tots event for Marine Corps families and others with connections to the military. The first lady is participating in the Marine Corps Reserve program through the Joining Forces initiative, which since 2011 has provided outreach to families and caregivers of those in the armed...
An overwhelming majority of New York City voters are concerned about accommodating migrants, according to a new poll. The latest Quinnipiac University poll found that 85 percent of New York City voters are either very concerned or somewhat concerned that the city will not be able to accommodate the surge in migrants who have sought sanctuary in...
Four presidential candidates will face off Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., for the fourth Republican primary debate, hosted by The Hill’s sister news organization NewsNation. Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are set to clash on stage as they vie for second place behind former President Trump, who is skipping the...
Uganda accused the U.S. of pushing an "LGBT agenda" in the wake of pushback to an anti-gay law. "There's a coup at the State Department in the U.S. It is being taken over by people who are pushing the LGBT agenda in Africa," State Minister for Foreign Affairs Okello Oryem said in a Wednesday Reuters...
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday invoked Article 99 of the UN charter for the first time, citing a "severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza," as the war rages on between Israel and militant group Hamas. In a letter to José Javier De la Gasca Lopez Domínguez, the current...
The White House on Wednesday scolded the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for their responses a day earlier at a House on antisemitism hearing. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asked all the presidents if a call for the genocide of Jewish people would be...
Biden has made statements that either significantly stretch the truth or are simply just not truthful.
The question of former President Trump’s eligibility to appear on the 2024 ballot comes before the Colorado Supreme Court on Wednesday. The proceedings will be available to view via streaming media at this site. Both Trump and a citizens’ group that filed the opposition in a lower court appealed an earlier decision that essentially ruled...
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) warned a "culture of silence" regarding metal health is "affecting safety" in aviation. "No one ... no one ... should have to think twice about their job before seeking help," NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said during opening remarks at Wednesday's summit on mental health in the...
Lawmakers and witnesses at a hearing addressing housing affordability Wednesday morning sounded similar frustrations over the growing divide between affordable housing supply and demand in markets across the country. “The severe shortage of affordable and available homes for extremely low-income renters is a structural feature of the country’s housing system, consistently impacting every state...
The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come under bipartisan fire over their responses to questions about antisemitism on campuses during a House hearing Tuesday. The presidents were all asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) if a student calling for the genocide of...
Unknown stocks traders were betting against Israeli companies just days before the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, according to new financial research. New York University law professor and former Securities and Exchange Commissioner (SEC) Robert Jackson, Jr. and Columbia University law professor Joshua Mitts found that suspicious trading took place not only ahead of the...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) offered a grim outlook on the shrinking GOP majority after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced his plans to resign by the end of the month on Wednesday. “Now in 2024, we will have a 1 seat majority in the House of Representatives,” Greene wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Congratulations...
House Republicans are threatening to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he does not appear for a scheduled closed-door deposition next week as part of a subpoena. The threat from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) comes as the legal counsel for the president’s...
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) is suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over allegations the company's platforms — Facebook and Instagram — promoted underage accounts to purported child predators. The state attorney general's office says its undercover investigation found Meta allowed its platforms to "become a marketplace for predators in search of children...
President Biden’s job approval rating ticked down again in the latest CNN poll, dropping to 37 percent, a signal that the president’s favor is further eroding as he campaigns for another term in 2024. Biden boasted approval figures in the 50s at the start of his term, and still had 45 percent at the beginning...
Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen unveiled Wednesday sanctions against two companies and 15 people that the United States says have links to Mexican drug cartel. “We cannot end the U.S. opioid crisis and achieve greater security without looking beyond our borders,” Yellen said in Mexico City, according to The Associated Press. Yellen is in...
Washington Post journalists are planning to walk off their jobs in a 24-hour strike on Thursday, according to the union. The Washington Post Guild announced in a letter to the newspaper’s readers on Tuesday that its members will be participating in the 24-hour strike over management refusing “to bargain in good faith” and walking out of negotiations....
Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. But the fact is that plenty of problems in our government and judicial system can be marked down to incompetence and self-serving egotism.
The 10 Wisconsin Republicans who falsely asserted former President Trump won the election there conceded that their actions were part of an effort to subvert the state's election results as part of a settlement agreement made public Wednesday. The alternate electors affirmed that President Biden won the 2020 election in the Badger State and that...
