The Biden administration is taking aim at the backlog of asylum cases from those who have recently arrived at the border, creating a dedicated docket in the hopes of more swiftly adjudicating the claims. Although largely a matter of managing the court’s workflow, in seeking to address the lingering cases, the administration is going after...
Conflict and hostility currently dominate the China discourse.
The House passed bipartisan legislation on Wednesday aimed at requiring even ticket sellers to disclose the total cost of tickets up front to consumers, including so-called “hidden fees.” The bill, dubbed the Transparency In Charges for Key Events Ticketing (TICKET) Act, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, 338-24. “This consensus legislation will end deceptive ticketing practices...
Other affluent countries generally do more to ensure that such individuals have a roof over their heads, food on the table and basic health care. We should as well, for their benefit as well as ours as a nation.
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg defended Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who is under fire for suggesting women should prioritize being a homemaker over their career ambitions. “These are his beliefs and he’s welcome to them," Goldberg said during an episode of "The View" Thursday, adding "I don’t have to believe them. Right? I...
The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced a measure to hold in contempt Attorney General Merrick Garland in an 18-15 party line vote, a step Republicans on the House Oversight panel are also expected to take later this evening. A last-minute move from President Biden to claim executive privilege over audio recordings from his interview...
Republican and Democratic senators accused one another of playing partisan politics Thursday in their responses to reports of a toxic workplace culture at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). While GOP lawmakers across the board have called on FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg (D) to resign, Democrats have been split over how to respond, with some...
Montana Sen. Jon Tester (D) is dismissing the suggestion that his support for an immigration bill is motivated by election-year politics. “That’s bulls---,” Tester told Punchbowl News. "You can’t on one hand talk about how the border’s not secure, and on the other hand say we’re not going to secure the border because we don’t...
A New York City dog named Luna received an award Thursday for killing rats. City Council Member Chi Ossé posted on social media platform X awarding Luna a City Council Citation for the work she’s done. “We just presented an official @NYCCouncil citation to Luna the Dog for being New York’s strongest solider in our...
The Biden administration has been listening and taking action.
The number of students missing at least 18 days a year has nearly doubled since 2018, sounding an alarm among educators.
Columbia University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a vote of no confidence Thursday against university President Minouche Shafik over her handling of the recent pro-Palestinian protests on campus. The vote, organized by the school’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), won with a 65 percent majority, though it has no...
The Biden administration announced Thursday it had initiated the formal rulemaking process to reschedule marijuana to Schedule III from its Schedule I designation that it has held for more than 50 years. The announcement follows the Department of Justice’s announcement last month that it planned to proceed with rescheduling marijuana to Schedule III, which the Department of...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Who are Trump's top VP contenders? The veepstakes for former President Trump seems to be picking up, with several of the top choices to be the presumptive GOP nominee’s running mate appearing with him on the campaign trail and at...
Kerry Washington and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) are teaming up to help lead an effort to recruit election poll workers ahead of November. The former "Scandal" star and the ex-congressman will be among the co-chairs on an advisory council for Power the Polls, the nonpartisan organization announced Thursday. They are part of a 14-member...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling out House Republicans over their request for the Treasury Department to investigate the finances of the pro-Palestinian student protesters who have set up encampments at scores of U.S. colleges in recent weeks. On Tuesday, Committee on Education and the Workforce Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Oversight and...
Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander said in a Wednesday interview that there has been “no significant change” in former President Carter’s condition. “It’s 15 months of hospice at this point, and he is fully retired,” Alexander said on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Politically Georgia” podcast Wednesday. “There really hasn’t been a significant change. I mean, he...
The Los Angeles Chargers took a swipe at Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who is facing backlash over recent comments in which he suggested women prioritize being a homemaker over pursuing a career. Shortly after the NFL released its 2024 schedule Wednesday, the Chargers took to social platform X with a three-and-half-minute Sims-like video...
Vice President Kamala Harris was gifted tickets to Beyoncé’s concert by the artist herself and a Howard University football game courtesy of ESPN, a 2023 financial disclosure report shows. Harris attended Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour concert in Landover, Maryland, in August, with her husband Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. She posted online thanking the singer for...
Former President Trump has said there’s a “good chance” he’ll announce his running mate at the Republican national convention in July. “What are the chances you will announce your vice president pick while in Milwaukee, at the convention?” Scripps News’s Charles Benson asked Trump in an interview released Thursday. “That’s probably a pretty good chance,...
The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee wants to know how the country’s top health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers plan to make it easier for people to access contraception for free. In letters sent Thursday to the five largest health insurers and four largest pharmacy benefit managers first shared with The...
An American solider imprisoned in Russia on charges of stealing from his girlfriend in the country pleaded guilty to theft, Russian media reported. The soldier, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, was arrested in Vladivostok, Russia, May 2 and placed in pretrial detention. A Russian court ordered him to remain in custody at least until July. Black...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation Wednesday removing the requirement for the state to consider climate change in crafting energy policy and excises nearly all references to climate change in Florida law. The law, which passed the state Legislature in March and takes effect in July, also outlaws offshore wind turbines in Florida waters...
She voted for him in 2020, but Cardi B says she's experienced "layers and layers of disappointment" since Joe Biden became president. "I feel like people got betrayed," the "WAP" rapper said in an interview with Rolling Stone published Thursday. Citing high living costs and what the music publication described as her disappointment with "domestic and...
We can’t let a vocal minority control the narrative that universities and its students aren’t equipped for political discussion, or that they don’t want it.
