South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has found herself in the doghouse after a shocking anecdote from her forthcoming book made the rounds in recent days. Noem attracted criticism and mockery in political circles after it was reported that her upcoming book detailed the story of how roughly 20 years ago, she shot and killed...
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey (D) leads his Republican challenger David McCormick six months out from Election Day, according to a new Emerson College/The Hill swing state poll released Tuesday. The poll found 46 percent of Pennsylvania voters said they backed Casey in the race, while 42 percent said they supported McCormick. Another 12 percent said...
President Biden’s reelection campaign is making a play for Florida, hoping to steal a state that has been moving toward the GOP — and has become the new home state for former President Trump — away from Republicans in November. Winning back the Sunshine State will be an uphill battle, but Biden’s campaign thinks the...
The race to beef up global supply chains for metals and minerals crucial to the ongoing energy transition is heating up. Companies are jockeying for position within shifting production networks and legislatures are advancing packages to pull mineral processing away from China, where the industry has been concentrated for decades. At stake in the quest...
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized rules Tuesday aimed at streamlining the environmental review process under the National Environmental Protection Act. The final rule, which was part of an agreement in last summer’s deal to increase the federal debt ceiling, creates new methods for the federal government to establish a categorical exclusion....
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated the federal workplace guidelines after a quarter of a century to protect pronouns, bathrooms and abortion. The new guidance, released on Monday by the federal agency, fortified transgender employees’ rights such as being protected from misgendering and using the bathroom that matches their gender identity. Employees not...
An anonymous Jewish student filed a lawsuit Monday against Columbia University, alleging that the Ivy League school has failed to provide "a safe educational environment” for its students amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. In the lawsuit, the second-year student claims that since demonstrators established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” more than a week ago, she and other...
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) said that “hate speech” from pro-Palestine protesters will not be “tolerated” in the Sooner State and he would expel those who stand with Hamas from his state’s colleges. Stitt was asked if it bothered him that so many pro-Palestine protesters were arrested at universities around the country and that so many of them are...
American stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld said the “extreme left and PC crap” are hampering comedy today, arguing it restricts the genre that people still need in their lives. Seinfeld offered his take on the current problems comedy is encountering and what the future holds for art during his appearance on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast. ...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has qualified for the ballot in California, his campaign announced Monday. Kennedy, alongside running mate Nicole Shanahan, was backed by the American Independent Party (AIP) of California, the state with the most electoral college votes in the country. The campaign confirmed it filed paperwork with California's secretary of...
Columbia University on Monday began suspending the students who refuse to leave the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus, hours after the deadline to leave the encampment passed. "We have begun suspending students as part of this next phase of our efforts to ensure safety on our campus," Ben Chang, vice president of communications for Columbia University...
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The Biden administration is setting its face against any possible prosecution of members of Israel’s government, amid speculation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could soon issue arrest warrants over the conduct of the war in Gaza. “We do not support it,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at Monday’s media briefing, referring...
State troopers in riot gear moved on Monday afternoon to clear out students attempting to occupy a quad at the University of Texas at Austin. Dozens of protesters were arrested on site, escalating tensions that began Wednesday when the pro-Palestinian protest movement sought to establish a camp on the South Mall, immediately below the looming...
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Sunday alleged police assaulted her and other demonstrators shortly before being arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. “Basically, the police charged us despite our efforts to de-escalate, they charged us with bicycles. And you'll see … plenty of footage of...
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Colleges across the country are barreling toward crisis as pro-Palestinian student protesters show no signs of relenting, posing growing risks to the schools and threatening to become a major election-year issue. The unrest, which could be coming to a head at Columbia University as demonstrators blow past a school-imposed Monday deadline, has already caused one...
