Voters in swing states are overwhelmingly supportive of taxing billionaires to support Social Security benefits, a new survey found. More than three-fourths — 77 percent — of voters across seven key swing states approved of the idea of raising taxes for billionaires to extend the life of Social Security, according to the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult...
Roughly 6 in 10 voters backing President Biden say they’d replace both the incumbent and his rival former President Trump on the 2024 ballot if they could, polling released Wednesday shows. A Pew Research report found 62 percent of Biden supporters said they’d swap out both candidates at the top of the ticket, compared to...
West Virginia plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear for a second time a case over the state's restrictions on transgender student-athletes, its attorney general said Wednesday. “This is a significant case to bring to the Supreme Court, and it will potentially set precedent for the entire country,” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick...
Michael Cohen, former President Trump's fixer turned foe, said Wednesday he will cease any commentary about Trump until after he testifies in the former president's New York criminal trial. "Despite not being the gagged defendant, out of respect for Judge Merchan and the prosecutors, I will cease posting anything about Donald on my X (formerly...
The Supreme Court on Thursday will weigh the limits of presidential immunity in an unprecedented and historic case with significant implications for former President Trump, his legal fights and the 2024 race for the White House. Trump is pushing an argument that has already been rejected by two lower courts: that even as a former...
The Safety of Rwanda Act is a bad law and it knows it is.
Colleges are trying everything from negotiation to mass arrests to deal with the crop of pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have sprung up on their grounds, but experts say they have to take a good look at campus culture if they really want to deal with the situation in the long term. Elite schools starting with Columbia...
The Palestinian Solidarity Committee of Austin is organizing a protest in support of Gaza on Wednesday, directing students to walk out of class and "occupy" the South Lawn of UT's campus.
TikTok will halt a feature that rewards its app users in France and Spain for watching videos in the wake of scrutiny from European Commission regulators. "TikTok always seeks to engage constructively with the EU Commission and other regulators. We are therefore voluntarily suspending the rewards functions in TikTok Lite while we address the concerns...
More than a third of U.S. workers are worried that artificial intelligence (AI) will result in them having their hours or salary slashed or losing their job entirely, two new surveys found. The surveys, conducted by YouGov, found that 36 percent of full-time and part-time workers are concerned that AI will take over their jobs....
Maria Shriver says her work toward gender equity in medical research is a "human issue," not a political one. "I don't see it as partisan at all because there are Republican women serving. Republican men came from Republican women," Shriver said. "I don't even look at it as a political issue. I look at it...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said it was “pretty stupid” for President Biden not to reach out and ask Christie to support his 2024 reelection campaign after Christie suspended his bid for the White House earlier this year. In a 90-minute conversation hosted at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics on Tuesday...
President Biden and former President Trump are deadlocked in a new national survey. The Quinnipiac University poll found the two tied among registered voters at 46 percent. It also found that even when other candidates for the presidency — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein — were included as options in the...
A Michigan prosecutor testified Thursday that former President Trump and senior campaign allies contributed to a scheme to overturn the state’s 2020 electoral results. Michigan attorney general’s office special agent Howard Shock said that Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in an investigation into the plan, which has resulted in charges against 16 Michigan GOP officials....
The Arizona House on Wednesday passed legislation that would repeal the state’s 1864 near-total abortion ban, as Republicans joined with all the chamber’s Democrats. Wednesday was the third attempt to vote in as many weeks, as Republicans had successfully blocked Democrats the last two attempts. The bill passed 32-28. Republican state Reps. Tim Dunn (R-Yuma)...
Texas state police on Wednesday detained pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the University of Texas campus in Austin after hundreds of students walked out of classes and began a sit-in in support of Gaza, local and state media reported. Social media videos show state police in riot gear attempting to disperse the crowd. The Texas Tribune reported...
President Biden on Wednesday met at the White House with Abigail Edan, a four-year-old who was held by Hamas in Gaza and was released last November as part of a hostage deal. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters the meeting was a moment of joy, as well as a reminder for Biden...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will deliver public remarks during a visit to Columbia University Wednesday afternoon. Along with every Republican member of the New York congressional delegation, Johnson has also called for the resignation of Columbia University president Minouche Shafik for what they regard as a failed response to antisemitism on campus. Protests against...
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday denounced the pro-Palestinian protests roiling college campuses across the U.S., arguing they are "antisemitic mobs" targeting Jewish students and faculties. "So what's happening on America's college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel, they attack Jewish students, they attack...
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story US West seeks development of workforce, sustainable economy As hotspots across the U.S. West strengthen their stature as hubs for technological innovation, economic success will hinge upon workforce availability, state and federal officials agree. © AP Photo/Matt York "We're creating all...
Conservative attorney George Conway said Wednesday that he almost “felt bad” for former President Trump’s attorneys, as they argued Tuesday that the former president had not violated the gag order in his hush money trial. “I almost felt bad for Todd Blanche,” Conway told CNN’s Erin Burnett about his experience in the courtroom. Prosecutors with...
It's not as simple as looking up in the sky and seeing "clean air," so how can you really know?
If members of Congress want to improve retirement security, they should expand Social Security rather than Wall Street-favored individual savings and investment schemes.
Following the news Wednesday of the passing of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.), Black lawmakers shared memories and statements of support for the late lawmaker's family. In a statement, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) highlighted the work Payne, 65, focused on during his six terms in Congress, including racial justice, reproductive freedom, free college tuition and expanding...
Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (UFW), the union she founded alongside Cesar Chavez, on Wednesday endorsed Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) in his Senate bid. Endorsements from Huerta and the UFW, key players in the birth of Hispanic political power, hold a special significance for many Latinos, particularly in the Southwest....
