Under threat of bankruptcy, Greenpeace International is testing a new European law that protects public protesters from lawsuits in a bid to escape some of the hefty penalties imposed by a U.S. jury for blocking the construction of an American pipeline.
Debate over the cost and feasibility of President Trump's planned Golden Dome missile defense system has raged despite the White House's insistence that the plan is affordable and will be completed by 2028.
A fundamental economic principle is that voluntary trade creates wealth, and the more people trade, the greater their well-being. Most economists agree that the more a nation’s citizens can trade with each other and with other countries, the better off they become. Since the end of World War II, the United States has generally worked […]
“Families will be hurt. Farmers will be hurt. Border security and border patrol agents will not be paid. TSA agents will not be paid. Small businesses will be hurt in every single community.” These words from House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries effectively capture the devastating impact of a government shutdown. So, when Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, […]
Want to know who’s winning in politics? Look at who’s laughing and who’s trying to keep their chin up. Remember those joyful early days of then-Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign? They were laughing because they were winning. But as soon as her numbers nosedived — or rather, as soon as she began speaking off script […]
The U.S. Capitol was quiet on the second day of the government shutdown as votes are not scheduled in either chamber in observance of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) held a press conference with members of his leadership team outside his office at 10 a.m. in an otherwise largely empty House....
Most American voters believe the United States is too politically divided to solve problems, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University released on Thursday. The poll found that 64 percent of registered voters think the country's sharp divisions cannot solve political problems, while 33 percent say the political system can...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) that he should ignore the videos President Trump has posted picturing him in a sombrero, calling them a “sideshow” distracting from ending the government shutdown. Johnson in a press conference on Thursday brought up Jeffries being “all alarmed” by videos that Trump has posted,...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr is expected to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee before the end of the year. Carr's looming testimony, which was confirmed to The Hill by a person familiar, comes just days after he took heavy criticism over his pressuring of ABC to take comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the...
Tech mogul Elon Musk became the first person to achieve a net worth of $500 billion Wednesday, briefly touching the half-trillion-dollar milestone before dipping back down, according to Forbes. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO crossed the $500 billion mark Wednesday afternoon on Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires tracker. As of Thursday morning, he sat at $499.1 billion. ...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that federal government layoffs during the shutdown will likely be in the thousands, ahead of President Trump’s meeting with Office and Management Budget Director Russell Vought. “It’s likely going to be in the thousands. It’s a very good question, and that’s something that the Office of...
Billionaire Elon Musk is leading the charge on a campaign by right-wing media personalities and influencers urging Americans to cancel their Netflix subscriptions over an animated show that features a transgender character. Musk is promoting a series of posts from "LibsofTikTok," Benny Johnson and other conservatives urging users cancel Netflix over the show, "Dead End:...
Nearly a third of Americans suggested some violence could be justified in order to get the U.S. back on track, according to a new survey. The NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, published this week, found that 30 percent of respondents either “strongly agree” or “agree” that “Americans may have to resort to violence" in order to steer...
