U.S. Central Command head Gen. Erik Kurilla is in Israel to speak with officials as fear grows around a possible attack on Israel by Iran and the militant groups it backs, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. “Gen. Kurilla is in Israel. He's, as I understand it, traveling throughout the region,” press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder...
American greenhouse gas emissions rose 1 percent between 2021 and 2022 but fell nearly 17 percent from 2005 levels, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual emissions inventory report. Net U.S. emissions increased by 1.3 percent in 2022 for a total of 5,489 million metric tons of carbon dioxide compared to the previous year, according...
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, it allowed states under Republican control to impose abortion bans or severe limitations, a long-sought goal for many GOP anti-abortion lawmakers. Abortion access now is a state-by-state patchwork of laws that is ever-changing as new restrictions take effect. Here's where the laws stand as of...
Forty-three Senate Republicans led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) demanding a trial on the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which House managers are due to present to the Senate next week. Notably, six Republicans did not sign the letter, including some...
SPOTTED: "Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson trading the small screen for the halls of Congress as he made a pitch to lawmakers for legislation that proponents say would help support theaters around the country. The 48-year-old actor was eyed in the Senate subway at the Capitol on Thursday, flashing a peace sign to The Hill and...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this week pushed for an independent commission to look into the Israeli strike that killed seven aid workers with the charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) earlier this month. Pelosi said in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday that she signed onto a letter with more than 50 other Democrats calling...
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday said the Mexican government has been “uneven” in its assistance to U.S. law enforcement against fentanyl trafficking, agreeing with GOP critics of the Biden administration. “We need much more from Mexico,” Wray said in a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Thursday. He added that the Mexican response to fentanyl...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will not help GOP leaders with a procedural vote to advance legislation extending the government’s surveillance powers. Nineteen conservative Republicans joined forces with all House Democrats on Wednesday to sink a rule governing a bipartisan proposal to renew a controversial section of the Foreign Intelligence...
Given its declining economic strength and related concerns over losing global influence, Beijing may suspect the West of trying to take advantage of China, possibly prompting it to pre-empt any real or imagined attempt to do so. For this reason, the risk of a major crisis involving China and the U.S. will only increase further in the coming few years, not diminish.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling for action to increase U.S. measles immunization amid a rise in cases that could threaten the nation's status as one where the virus is eliminated. The number of measles cases detected in 2024 has already nearly reached double the total confirmed in 2023. The CDC...
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe criticized former President Trump’s claims about a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Thursday. “My guess, Jim, is that, it's not surprising that Donald Trump is against surveillance capacity and authority for the FBI, because he is someone who's been investigated by the FBI,” McCabe said...
A majority of Floridians in a new poll said they think a six-week abortion ban is too strict, but so far only 42 percent said they will vote in favor of a ballot amendment to enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution. The Emerson College poll of Florida voters released Thursday found 57 percent think...
The Biden administration plans to expand two national monuments in California, two sources tell The Hill. The monuments, the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, were first designated under the Obama administration. The San Gabriel Mountains, in Southern California, boast wildlife such as the California condor bird and mountain yellow-legged...
Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) bribery trial will be separated from his wife Nadine Menendez’s, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Judge Sidney H. Stein ruled that Menendez’s trial will begin May 6 as previously scheduled, but his wife’s trial has now been tentatively pushed back to July, The Associated Press reported. This comes as lawyers for...
Former President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are teaming up to promote a bill to keep non-citizens from voting in federal elections, according to a report by USA Today. Johnson is set to visit Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence Friday to drum up the proposal, amid tensions with his Trump-aligned right flank over bipartisan proposals in the...
The influx of millions of immigrants looking for work over the past three years has helped check the cost of America’s labor shortage.
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Arizona abortion ruling piles onto losing issue for GOP Republicans campaigned for decades on restricting abortion access, but they face a new reality at the polls when those campaign promises take effect on state and national levels. © Getty Images...
The wife of Julian Assange said President Biden’s recent comments that his administration is considering dropping charges against her husband are a “good sign.” Stella Assange was encouraged by Biden's recent remarks regarding her husband's case, she said. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is currently being held in London's high-security Belmarsh Prison. "It looks like...
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is a key vote on the question of whether the Senate will hold a full impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, confronted Mayorkas about the southern border at a hearing this week. Tester, who is also one of the most vulnerable senators up for reelection, directed some of...
Regardless of the troubling trends in American journalism, we should all recognize the importance of a free, fair and functioning press.
The Biden administration is conducting a multistate investigation into illnesses with potential links to injections of botulinum toxin, also known as Botox, in at least two states. The Botox injections were conducted in “non-medical settings,” and the source of the products are not yet known, a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Renowned football star and infamous criminal defendant OJ Simpson died Wednesday at the age of 76, his family announced. Simpson "succumbed to his battle with cancer," his family said in a Thursday statement posted to his account on the social platform X. Coming from a rough upbringing in 1950s San Francisco, Simpson’s career took him...
A transgender teacher can use her preferred pronouns while at work, despite a restrictive Florida law, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
The number of U.S. drug shortages has reached a new all-time high, according to new data released by a top pharmacist trade group. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has been tracking domestic drug shortages since 2001. The group tracks national drug shortages quarterly, and the most recent update from March found there are...
House leadership is eyeing a Plan B to reauthorize the country's spying authority after a band of 19 GOP lawmakers blocked the legislation from advancing Wednesday. The plan under discussion would shorten the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) from five years down to two years and bring the controversial...
