California regulators granted their unanimous support Tuesday for a long-awaited slate of rules that could flush future drinking water sources down toilets across the Golden State. The California State Water Resources Control Board voted to approve regulations that would streamline “direct potable reuse” (DPR) — a method by which purified wastewater is released right into a public water...
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Tuesday swiped at former President Trump over his push for a primary challenge to DeSantis-backer Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), pointing out the filing deadline in Texas already passed. "While @chiproytx is fighting to do what Donald Trump promised to do—secure our southern border—the former president is on social media...
El Paso County and two immigrant rights groups filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas Tuesday, challenging a new law that allows state and local police to arrest people suspected to be undocumented migrants. The bill, signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday, sets up a legal challenge over whether state authorities...
Rita Moreno says people who criticize President Biden’s octogenarian status “don’t understand anything about old age.” The legendary “West Side Story” actor, who turned 92 last week, opened up to ITK when asked recently whether she considers Biden’s age an issue in the 2024 presidential race. Eighty-one-year-old Biden is the oldest president to be elected to...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Turmoil threatens DeSantis campaign As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stares down a critical contest in next month’s Iowa caucuses, new reports signal strains and struggles within his political machine. © Greg Nash Over the weekend, a Washington Post report detailed...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday classified the JN.1 variant of the coronavirus as a “variant of interest” but said there wasn’t much of a threat to public health. "Based on the available evidence, the additional global public health risk posed by JN.1 is currently evaluated as low," WHO said. Still, the agency cautioned...
Official dollarization addresses the inflation, while fiscal reform that increases tax revenues and reduces spending addresses Argentina’s growing debt.
Actor Alec Baldwin got into a heated argument with a demonstrator at a Pro-Palestinian rally in New York City on Monday. NBC News reported on Tuesday that New York police escorted the 65-year-old actor away from the rally after his confrontation with several protesters. According to a video of the incident, Baldwin is seen having...
A super PAC backing Nikki Haley fired back at former President Trump in a new 30-second ad buy released in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Stand for America (SFA) released its ad attacking the former president the same day the Make American Great Again (MAGA) Inc. super PAC released its own video taking aim at Haley. The ad...
A trailblazer for women. A tireless advocate for civility. A daughter of the American West. President Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts eulogized the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in front of hundreds gathered for her funeral service Tuesday at the Washington National Cathedral, remembering the first woman on the Supreme Court, who also became the indisputable swing...
Librarians strive to ensure that every child finds themselves represented on their shelves. The choice to engage with that story remains a personal family decision. But discarding someone else's story is not the answer.
The South led the country in population growth in the last year, new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau found. The South is already the nation’s most populated region but accounted for 87 percent of the overall growth from July 2022 to July 2023. It was the only region to maintain population growth throughout the...
Story at a glance Washington, D.C. topped the list of the cities with the most one-person households, according to census bureau data analyzed by the Chamber of Commerce. Among more than 170 cities with a population of at least 150,000, Washington, D.C. ranked first among percent of one-person households, followed by Birmingham, Ala.; St. Louis, Mo.; Atlanta,...
More people moved to Texas and Florida among the 50 states in 2023, while New York and California experienced declines in their populations, new census data found. Texas added the more people to its population than any other state, according to the new census report published Tuesday that found the state’s population grew by 473,453 people in...
The NAACP's North Carolina chapter, Common Cause and a group of Black voters are challenging the use of state and congressional lines approved by North Carolina’s GOP-led Legislature earlier this fall. The plaintiffs allege in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state House, state Senate and congressional maps approved by the state Legislature either...
The delay strategy is showing sign of success because both cases are bogged down in procedural wrangling. Meanwhile, polling shows Trump far ahead in the race for the Republican nomination and ahead of Biden for the presidency.
Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) released an internal poll Tuesday that shows him with a large lead in the New Jersey Senate primary against the state's first lady Tammy Murphy and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). The South Jersey congressman leads Murphy 45 percent to 22 percent among likely primary voters, according to the poll, which was...
The United States population increased over the last year, as a result of fewer deaths and immigration returning to pre-pandemic levels, the U.S. Census Bureau found. The country gained more than 1.6 million people in 2023, growing by .5 percent, to nearly 335 million total. That was the largest increase in population growth since before...
President Biden needs to change his campaign messaging as he is “losing ground” every month, one Democratic pollster said. Stanley Greenberg said Monday in an interview on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that Biden’s campaign needs to focus on telling voters how he plans to deal with rising inflation, holding large companies accountable and how they will...
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Democratic presidential candidate and Rep. Dean Phillips (Minn.) will participate in a wide-ranging interview with NewsNation host Dan Abrams later this week. The network announced Tuesday that Abrams's interview with Phillips will air Friday during the host's 9 p.m. program, which will be entirely devoted to the Phillips sit-down that evening. "Phillips will discuss the...
A report released Tuesday by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found that the watchlists for identifying and tracking travelers who might have connections to terrorists are overly broad. People entering or traveling within the United States may be screened at airports or ports of entry for 22 reasons. Some reasons come from...
The Biden administration on Tuesday took a step toward protecting older trees that store carbon dioxide and help to lessen climate change. It issued a proposed plan with apparent limitations on cutting down old-growth trees — saying lands can’t be managed with the primary intention of logging such trees for economic reasons. It does say...
A group representing several social media giants, including Google, Meta, TikTok and X, sued Utah on Monday over the state’s new social media law that requires platforms to verify user ages and obtain parental consent for minors. The Utah Social Media Regulation Act, which is set to go into effect in March, also requires social...
A trailer for an upcoming movie that take place in a world in which a modern-day civil war breaks out in the United States is creating buzz across the internet. "Civil War" is directed by filmmaker Alex Garland and follows a plot line in which more than a dozen states seceded from the U.S., sparking...
