Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story 16 Republican AGs sue Biden administration over LNG exports pause A group of 16 Republican state attorneys general from around the country sued the Biden administration Thursday over its pause on federal permits for new...
New York City saw its population of millionaires jump by 48 percent in a decade, according to a new report. The Big Apple still leads the U.S. — and the world — among wealthy cities. It has nearly 350,000 millionaires and 60 billionaires, according to the USA Wealth Report from an investment migration consultancy firm...
Story at a glance Knowing the difference between fact and opinion seems simple, but respondents in a survey published earlier this month were largely unable to correctly identify either. Two researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently published a study on how well American adults can tell the difference between a factual statement and...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Truth Social merger approved after hurdles Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. approved a merger Friday with Truth Social, a media startup owned by former President Trump, teeing up its stock market debut and a potential $3.5 billion windfall for Trump. © AP...
None of the 25 biggest oil and gas companies are on track to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, according to research released Friday by the climate finance think tank Climate Tracker. Researchers with the organization scored major fossil fuel companies on five metrics, including investment options, production plans, sanctions on recent products,...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Truth Social merger could give Trump windfall Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) approved a merger with former President Trump’s Truth Social on Friday, teeing up the social media company’s stock market...
The idea is simple: Chinese commercial interests should not be able to do in the United States what U.S. firms cannot do in China.
Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) announced online Friday that he is leaving the Republican Party and will instead run as an independent in his New York House race this fall. “I am officially suspending my petitioning in #NY01 to access the ballot as a Republican and will be filing to run as an independent…” Santos...
Adult film star Stormy Daniels said she’s receiving a new wave of harassment from supporters of former President Trump who “believe that they are being patriotic” after a new documentary was released about the hush money she took for an alleged affair with the former president. “I believe that they’re more like suicide bombers this...
To stop these tragedies before they happen, we need more than policy change and gun industry accountability alone. We need a nationwide change of American hearts and minds.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called on the Director of National Intelligence on Thursday to declassify information about the national security risks posed by TikTok, as the Senate considers legislation that could ban the popular app. “We are deeply troubled by the information and concerns raised by the intelligence community in recent...
The White House on Friday took a swipe at the latest effort from House Republicans to remove the Speaker, even as a top spokesperson said the president would not get involved in the drama. "We’ve always been very clear. We are not going to get in the middle of what’s going on in House leadership,"...
Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, told GOP leadership Friday that she will be stepping down from her post. In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Granger, who previously announced her retirement, requested a replacement “as soon as possible” to serve out the remainder of the congressional session. “My...
Kate, Princess of Wales, says she’s been diagnosed with cancer, asking the public for “time, space, and privacy” amid a media frenzy surrounding her absence from public appearances. “It’s been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family,” Kate, sitting on a bench outdoors, said in a video posted on social media on...
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) announced Friday he would resign from Congress before his term is up, shrinking Republicans already razor-thin majority in the House. Gallagher, a four-term lawmaker who is considered a rising star within the GOP, announced last month that he would not seek reelection. But Friday, he said he would leave the House...
Most Americans doubt that SCOTUS will be impartial in decisions affecting the 2024 election. By striking down Colorado’s decision to remove Trump from the ballot, the justices validated their fears.
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci joked on Friday that he and other former Trump administration officials are in a “Trump recovery unit.” “[L]et me just talk about my colleagues and friends, ‘cause we’re sort of like in this Trump recovery unit together, which would include [former Defense Secretary Mark Esper], [retired Gen. Mark...
Story at a glance Married adults in the U.S. are more likely to be thriving than those who have never been married, are divorced or live with a domestic partner, according to newly-published data from Gallup. In 2023, married adults aged 25 to 50 were 16 percent more likely to be thriving compared to those...
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday subpoenaed President Biden’s ghost writer, advancing their efforts to gain access to recordings and a transcript of conversations referenced by special counsel Robert Hur. Hur’s report indicates that Biden at three different times read passages from his notebook that references classified information while working with ghost writer...
If we want the media to live up to its role, then we have to provide them with the necessary protections.
A group of migrants rushed past Texas National Guard troops at the border wall in El Paso Thursday, seeking to surrender to Border Patrol to apply for asylum. The migrants made their way across concertina wire and to an opening in the border wall, where they were momentarily forcibly held back by a small group...
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon largely sided with special counsel Jack Smith in a battle to shield certain information from former President Trump’s legal team as they prepare for trial in his documents case. The Classified Information Procedures Act allows prosecutors to redact or summarize some elements of classified discovery before its turned over...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will deliver a daily press briefing Friday afternoon. The Biden administration was unable to persuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from a planned military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite the recent visit from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. An influx of civilian refugees...
Special counsel Robert Hur said that he didn't expect how cruel critics would be after he released his report on President Biden’s handling of classified documents. “I knew it was going to be unpleasant,” he said in an interview with The New Yorker. “But the level of vitriol — it’s hard to know exactly how intense that’s...
What Sanders calls “retirement savings” are only balances in retirement accounts such as IRAs and 401(k)s.
