X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, said Wednesday the hack into the account for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wasn’t due to a breach of the social media company’s systems. In a post Wednesday from X’s safety team account, the company blamed the SEC's security for the hack that led to a false post...
The House Education Committee sent a letter to Harvard on Tuesday requesting a plethora of documents relating to the panel's investigation into antisemitic activity on campus. Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) gave the university two weeks to produce records going back as far as 2021 to assess how the school is handling antisemitism. ...
Former President Obama believes there would be “incalculable damage” if former President Trump were to win the upcoming election, former Attorney General Eric Holder said. In an interview with USA Today, Holder, a close friend of Obama, said he and the former president both believe that the damage would be great if Trump were to...
The Fulton County district attorney who brought election interference charges against former President Trump was subpoenaed in an ongoing divorce case of a top prosecutor also involved in the matter, according to a court filing obtained by The Hill. Mike Roman, one of Trump’s co-defendants in the case, earlier this week accused District Attorney Fani...
Former President Trump will take part in a Fox News town hall on Wednesday night at the same time as CNN’s Iowa presidential debate between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. Trump was one of three candidates who met CNN’s polling requirements to qualify for participation in the debate, which will be the last one before...
Honda unveiled two concept EVs during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, part of the new line of electric vehicles that will go into production in 2026. The vehicles, called the “Honda 0 Series,” were developed using the company’s new "electrification" design. “We have gone back to basics and formulated the Honda 0 Series...
AI-powered misinformation and disinformation pose the largest short-term global threat to the world, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum. They are followed by extreme weather events and societal polarization as global threats, according to the report, which uses a survey of nearly 1,500 experts in areas of academia, business and government...
Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance at a markup of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday as the panel considers a resolution to hold the president’s son in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena last month. Fireworks went off at the start of the markup when lawmakers recognized that Biden was in the hearing...
China told the U.S. that it will "not make any concession or compromise” on the self-governing island nation of Taiwan, as Chinese and American officials held military talks this week for the first time since channels were suspended in 2022. The Pentagon's top China official, Michael Chase, concluded two days of talks Tuesday with Chinese...
Telephone service at the IRS is a mess, with employees answering way fewer phone calls than official metrics suggest while they spend more than a million working hours per year just waiting around for the phone to ring, according to the latest annual report from the agency’s internal watchdog, the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA). While...
The House Oversight Committee, under the leadership of chair James Comer (R-Ky.), is expected to vote Wednesday to bring a contempt of Congress resolution against Hunter Biden to the House floor. Republicans are moving the resolution forward because of Hunter Biden's refusal to respond to a subpoena for a closed-door session of questioning. Hunter Biden...
We've lost a giant in the passing of Eddie Bernice Johnson.
A group of legal scholars issued an open letter to House GOP leaders Wednesday conveying their concerns with the impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing his impeachment would be "utterly unjustified as a matter of constitutional law." In the letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Homeland Security Committee chairman...
A major storm brought high winds and pounding rains to much of the eastern United States on Tuesday, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power into Wednesday and delaying commutes for hours. As of Wednesday morning, more than 140,000 customers were without power in New York state and more than 100,000 were without power...
Fox News anchor Bret Baier worked hard to convince former President Trump to participate in a town hall in Iowa, slated to take place Wednesday and compete directly with the fifth Republican primary debate on CNN. “It’s not easy,” Baier told the New York Times this week about his efforts to encourage the former president...
President Biden should publicly announce that if Trump is the Republican nominee for president, he will not debate him in the general election unless he also participates in the upcoming primary debates in Iowa and New Hampshire.
A new trio of familiar faces is entering the cable news arena on weekend mornings, with the aim of driving the political conversation on an MSNBC show that’s “as good as the cup of coffee you’re having.” Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez are the three co-hosts of “The Weekend," which is poised to...
Yemen's Houthi rebels fired a barrage of rockets and missiles on Tuesday night at U.S. and U.K. forces in the Red Sea in the group's largest attack yet on ships in the region since conflict erupted in November. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the Houthis launched the attack from Yemen at 9:15 p.m. local time...
Former President Trump intends to deliver his own closing argument this week in the sprawling New York fraud trial threatening his business empire, according to multiple reports. Trump, the Trump Organization and several top executives — including his adult sons — are accused by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) of falsely altering the value of...
People like world peace and ceasefires. But public policy involves tradeoffs and conflicting values. Understanding how voters make the tradeoffs can be much more illuminating than merely recording oversimplified opinions about generic concepts.
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie predicted Tuesday that former President Trump will win the GOP nomination for president if he wins the New Hampshire primary later this month. Christie, speaking at a town hall event in the Granite State, added that the primary in South Carolina — the home stage of rival candidate Nikki Haley...
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun spoke out Tuesday about the recent midair blowout of a fuselage panel on one of the company's planes, calling the incident a "mistake" that "can never happen again." "We're going to approach this, No. 1, acknowledging our mistake with 100 percent and complete transparency every step of the way," Calhoun said...
The Republican-led House just returned to D.C. and is jumping straight back into its investigations of the Biden administration. On Wednesday morning, two separate GOP committees will hold markups on a resolution to hold President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena last month. At the same time, the...
Last year saw the AMA reject a proposal to soften its opposition to assisted suicide, and two medical organizations step back from the brink.
Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. in the three months since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel have surged, eclipsing annual statistics for the last decade. According to data compiled by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), antisemitic incidents rose 360 percent between Oct. 7 and Jan. 7 when compared with the same timeframe one year prior. But...
