David Hume Kennerly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, resigned as a trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation on Tuesday, citing the group’s decision not to give former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) its annual Medal for Distinguished Public Service as the reason for his departure. Kennerly, the chief White House photographer during President Ford's administration,...
Japan will gift the U.S. 250 new cherry trees to replace those taken down during construction at the Tidal Basin in Washington, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday during a visit to the White House. Cherry blossoms, now an icon of the city, line the Tidal Basin in front of the Jefferson Memorial and National...
A bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives introduced a pair of bills Wednesday to counter antisemitism, calling for a federal interagency task force against the hate. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) led the Senate’s Countering Antisemitism Act, while Reps. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), and Randy Weber (R-Texas)...
A federal judge in Florida tossed out Miami’s city district maps on Wednesday, ruling that the city racially gerrymandered for decades, throwing the electoral future of the city into question. A group of civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and NAACP, sued Miami in 2022, claiming that its makeup of council...
California state employees are getting codified policy on how often they can work from home, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) office announced Wednesday. Cabinet Secretary Ann Patterson wrote in a memo acquired by The Hill that the governor’s administration will require all state employees to work at least two days a week from the office starting...
A starry guest list — including Robert De Niro, Jeff Bezos, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi — descended on the White House for the state dinner for Japan. While rib eye steak and pistachio cake were poised to be served at the gala event, political talk apparently wasn't...
A man was arrested and charged Wednesday with detonating an explosive outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office in February, the Department of Justice announced. Prosecutors said Kyle Calvert, a 26-year-old from Alabama, detonated a small explosive device at about 3:45 a.m. outside the office in Montgomery on Feb. 27. No injuries or property damage were...
A new bill signed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) on Wednesday will make it illegal for a person to be in the state if they were previously denied entry to the United States or were removed from the country. The bill — SF 2340 — will make it a state crime for someone to...
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Wednesday credited the Republican push to overturn Roe v. Wade with the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that upheld a near-total abortion ban from the Civil War era. In an interview on Fox Business, host Larry Kudlow asked Ernst what she thought of the court’s decision to uphold the ban, noting,...
Democrats in Arizona attempted Wednesday to repeal a law banning nearly all abortions in the state that is set to take effect because of a state Supreme Court decision a day earlier, but they were blocked in both chambers by Republicans. The action took place in both chambers of Arizona’s Legislature. In the House, Phoenix...
A group of South Texas advocacy organizations sued the state to block a proposed land swap with SpaceX approved last month. The land swap would see SpaceX take over 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park near its Brownsville spaceport, in exchange for 477 acres adjacent to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. The suit, filed...
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U.S. workers are growing increasingly more detached from their employers, according to new data published Wednesday by Gallup. Less than one-third — 30 percent — of full-time and part-time U.S. employees in the Gallup survey reported feeling engaged at work, dropping 3 points from the 33 percent of workers who said they felt engaged in...
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When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced his 2024 running mate last month, his allies expected a bump in excitement that typically follows a big campaign announcement. That bump hasn’t materialized. The independent candidate is trailing President Biden and former President Trump by significant margins even after unveiling attorney Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential pick,...
Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, actor Robert De Niro and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi are expected to be among the extremely VIP guests at the White House Wednesday for the state dinner for Japan. Also expected at the event are Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon's Jeff Bezos and his...
Actors from CBS comedy series “Ghosts” connected with their spectral characters through historical artifacts and exhibits at the Library of Congress Tuesday, where the show's fourth season premiered to a sold-out theater. Cast members present for the showing played characters hailing from eras associated with Prohibition, women's suffrage, pre-colonial America and more. Richie Moriarty, who...
The Biden administration straddled the line on a controversial Canadian oil pipeline in a court filing Wednesday, saying a lower court’s order to drain portions running through tribal land may violate a 1977 treaty but agreeing with a Native American tribe that the operator is trespassing on tribal land. In an amicus brief in the...
