Hillary Clinton and “Hamilton’s” Lin-Manuel Miranda are reportedly stepping into the spotlight for President Biden’s campaign, hosting a Broadway-themed fundraiser together. The April 3 event will be held at a performance of “Suffs: The Musical,” which Clinton is co-producing, the New York Times reported Thursday. Representatives for Biden’s reelection campaign and Miranda didn’t immediately return ITK’s...
Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site. Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to...
"Forever chemicals" are everywhere — but there are significant steps consumers can take to protect themselves against the toxic substances, leading environmental engineers said. “We are living in a mega-experiment,” Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) environmental engineer Mohamed Ateaia Ibrahim told attendees on Tuesday at SXSW. For decades, the government has implemented few regulations on per- and...
The Senate overwhelmingly voted to confirm Dennis Hankins as the ambassador to Haiti on Thursday, as the Caribbean country struggles amid rising gang violence and political instability. Hankins will be the first full ambassador for the country since October 2021, when Michele Sison left the post. Hankins’s appointment passed in an 89-1 vote. Rampant gang...
Place is more than just where rural residents call home. It is a part of who they are — which is why a “place-based” approach to policymaking makes sense to so many in the countryside.
Vice President Harris visited a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota on Thursday, a significant and symbolic stop as she advocated for reproductive health care access for women in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Harris became the first sitting president or vice president to visit a facility that provides...
Forecasters are keeping an eye on a possible La Niña climate phenomenon later this year, which can strengthen Atlantic hurricanes. The National Weather Service’s (NWS) Climate Prediction Center said Thursday that there is a 62 percent chance of La Niña developing in June through August. La Niña is a climate phenomenon originating from the equatorial...
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog characterized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Thursday remarks on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “unhelpful” and “counterproductive.” Herzog’s statement came in response to the New York Democrat's criticism of Netanyahu on the Senate floor earlier Thursday, when he said the prime minister has “lost his way” and...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published a proposal Thursday to prioritize the conservation of greater sage-grouse on public lands — aiming to reverse habitat loss for an iconic bird of the U.S. West and restore the health of surrounding ecosystems. The proposal, a draft environmental impact statement, analyzes several alternatives for managing the greater sage-grouse...
Gerald Levin, the media executive who was one of the architects of the failed Time Warner and AOL merger of the early 2000s, died this week. Levin, 84, had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and was living in California, The New York Times reported. One of the most powerful executives during an era in which...
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) clashed on air Thursday over a potential TikTok ban in the United States and the ownership of the company. Paul joined Kilmeade on “Fox & Friends” just after the House passed a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S., handing the Senate the task...
The House voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation on Wednesday that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. If enacted, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would force ByteDance, TikTok's China-based parent company, to sell the app or be banned from U.S. app stores and web hosting services. Here are five things...
It almost certainly will come down to a contest in which voters will have to decide which candidate they like less.
A vast majority of Black smokers use menthols, and in an election year, when every vote matters, President Biden can ill-afford to alienate any potential constituency.
Royal Caribbean will no longer stop its cruise liners at its private beach in Labadee, Haiti, “out of an abundance of caution,” the company announced Thursday, as the country struggles with rampant gang violence and political instability. “Due to the evolving situation in Haiti, and in an abundance of caution, we're temporarily suspending our visits...
A federal appeals court on Thursday denied ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to stay out of prison while appealing his conviction for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit largely affirmed the trial judge’s...
The Navy has fired the captain of the USS Ohio guided missile submarine, service officials revealed. Capt. Kurt D. Balagna was fired as commanding officer of the Ohio (Gold Crew) “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,” the Navy said in a Wednesday statement. “Navy commanding officers are held to high standards of personal...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating an American Airlines flight that reported a flat tire after departing a Dallas area airport Wednesday. The FAA said an American Airlines Boeing 777 “landed safely” at the Los Angeles International Airport around 8:45 p.m. PDT Wednesday after it "reported a flat tire" after taking off from Dallas Fort Worth...
GOP lawmakers pushed back against Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) new proposal for a 32-hour workweek during a committee hearing Thursday, saying such a mandate would hurt workers and crush small businesses. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which Sanders chairs, met to discuss "new technology and increased productivity" and focused on the...
State and local governments give billions in tax subsidies to plastics processing facilities with a history of air pollution violations that disproportionately affect people of color, according to a report from the Environmental Integrity Project. The environmental nonprofit analyzed 50 plants constructed or expanded in the last 12 years. The vast majority were in Texas and Louisiana,...
The political arm of Crooked Media, a media company founded by former Obama staffers, is pouring money into battleground states ahead of the November elections. Vote Save America, a hybrid political action committee, is looking to offset 2023, a down year for progressive political fundraising, by donating to grassroots organizations early to have the “greatest”...
The Chinese Communist Party perceives AI as paramount to its economic and military ambitions.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) heralded the launch of New York state’s first offshore wind farm Thursday. “[I]n just a few minutes, we’ll officially bring the turbines online,” Hochul said Thursday on Long Island, adding it will have "national ramifications." "But I know, no one will ever forget the community behind this, the communities...
The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) launched a seven-figure advertisement that supports President Biden and his infrastructure investments. The ad will run in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, key swing states that went blue for Biden in 2020, and will target union members, union households and “other persuadable voters,” the union said. The ad...
President Biden is mourning the death of Nex Benedict in Oklahoma last month, calling for action the day after a medical examiner said the LGBTQ 16-year-old committed suicide. “Jill and I are heartbroken by the recent loss of Nex Benedict. Every young person deserves to have the fundamental right and freedom to be who they...
