Two additional Native American tribes in South Dakota have banned Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) from their reservations after she said earlier this year that tribal leaders benefited from drug cartels. Noem is now banned from traveling to about one-fifth of South Dakota after the Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem and the Sisseton-Wahpeton...
Michael Cohen, once former President Trump’s personal attorney and fixer, is set to come face-to-face with his former client in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday. Cohen is the prosecution’s star witness in a case that charges Trump with falsifying 34 business records over a $130,000 hush money payment Cohen sent a porn actress to keep...
Former President Trump referred to the notorious fictional serial killer, Hannibal Lecter, as a “wonderful man” during a weekend campaign speech in New Jersey. The moment of praise for the cannibal from “The Silence of the Lambs” came as Trump was comparing migrants to Lecter, repeating the unsubstantiated claim that migrants crossing the border are...
The unholy alliance between America's governments and the fossil fuel industry has been going on for decades, undeterred and unpunished.
Former President Trump leads President Biden in hypothetical head-to-head general election matchups in five of six key battleground states, new polling shows. The New York Times/Siena College/Philadelphia Inquirer polling, conducted from April 28 to May 9, shows Trump leading Biden among registered voters in Pennsylvania (47 to 44 percent), Arizona (49 to 42 percent), Michigan...
China is seeking to conquer America's backyard.
Ohio state legislators are scrambling to get President Biden on the November ballot after members failed to break a legislative impasse this week. State law says presidential candidates need to be certified with the state 90 days before the November election; this year, that date is Aug. 7. But Democrats are on track to miss...
The heavy bombs that President Biden has held back from sending to Israel have been a major point of controversy in the Gaza war, as a key tool for Israel’s decimation of the territory. Biden has paused a shipment of some 3,500 bombs, which includes heavy 2,000-pound versions along with the lighter 500-pound munitions. Both...
House Republicans are taking aim at President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war this week, after the administration paused shipment of some bombs to Israel and warned that the U.S. will cut off more offensive weapons to Jerusalem if its forces launch an invasion into Rafah. Republicans in both chambers have sharply criticized the administration’s...
Bitter infighting among House GOP lawmakers is threatening to boot several members out of office, as Republicans wade into incumbent primary contests against the best advice of their own party leaders. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) became the latest Republican to back Rep. Bob Good's (R-Va.) primary rival, John McGuire, after Good endorsed Bacon's primary challenger...
A major Democratic super PAC on Monday launched its first wave of ads as part of a $140 million campaign to target voters in key battleground states, using testimonials from voters to warn of the risks of a second Trump presidency. American Bridge 21st Century will air three ads in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as...
When the Senate sent the House a massive aviation bill Thursday, one of the few remaining targets for lobbyists flew out the window. Lobbyists have been eyeing must-pass bills to advance their clients’ priorities, and the advancement of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill means they have one fewer vehicle between now and the...
Sen. Bob Menendez, the three-term New Jersey Democrat who once chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is set to stand trial on federal bribery and obstruction charges starting Monday. Two New Jersey businessmen who allegedly traded luxurious bribes for Menendez’s political influence will be tried alongside him, while a third businessman pleaded guilty and Menendez’s wife,...
Jewish and Muslim students at U.S. colleges are exhausted as their academic year comes to a close. Antisemitism and Islamophobia have both spiked on campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the recent anti-war encampments have greatly disrupted student life. “This year has definitely impacted me academically a lot,”...
American and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss risks associated with advanced artificial intelligence (AI), according to senior administration officials. The bilateral talks will be “an exchange of views on the technical risks of AI” and will offer “an opportunity to directly communicate respective areas of concern,” an official told reporters...
The number of fentanyl seizures by law enforcement more than quadrupled between 2017 and 2023, with researchers finding the drug has continued entrench itself in the country's illicit drug supply. Seizures of fentanyl in the U.S. have followed an exponential upward trend since 2017, according to data from the federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas...
The White House said it has so far announced nearly $454 billion in funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which the president signed in late 2021. The money has been used to fund projects and awards in more than 4,500 communities in all 50 states. “Across the country, we are breaking ground and cutting ribbons...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) controversial new book faced a new hurdle Friday after a French government official questioned her account of a canceled meeting with President Emmanuel Macron, NBC News reported. Noem claimed in her book “No Going Back” that she made a last-second cancelation to plans to meet Macron over one of...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) stuck by his attacks against the daughter of the judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal case on Sunday, claiming she is a “political operative.” Scott was in New York City on Thursday to support Trump in his criminal case, where he faces over 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related...
A marine veteran said his life is in danger after he claims he attempted to help North Korean diplomats defect by staging a fake kidnapping. Christopher Ahn described in a “60 Minutes” interview with Sharyn Alfonsi on Sunday that the Spanish government is now seeking to extradite him after the incident. Ahn said he is...
Young members of Gen Z are struggling more financially today than Millennials did at their age 10 years ago, according to a new study published last week by the credit reporting agency TransUnion. The study includes a survey conducted in February of 614 Gen Z consumers, aged 22-24, and 623 Millennials, who were 22-24 years...
President Biden this week will mark the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision as part of a broader outreach to the Black community, a White House official exclusively told The Hill. Biden on Thursday will meet with the plaintiffs from the Brown v. Board case and their families at the...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described the state of health care in America as “barbarism” in a forthcoming episode of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) podcast. In a preview of Wednesday’s episode of “Bernie: The Podcast,” Ocasio-Cortez lamented the high costs of health care and housing and the difficult choices many Americans must face, as she recommitted...
As thousands of new graduates toss their caps this month, research shows more than 40 percent of master’s degrees aren’t financially worth obtaining, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity found. Looking at career earnings at graduation and a decade later, while accounting for factors such as dropout rate, the study found that bachelor’s degrees...
Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake said she’s not “all that confident” that the 2024 election will be fair, again dipping her toes into election denial conspiracies that put her 2022 gubernatorial race in legal trouble. Lake said in a Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that she strongly opposed efforts...
