Climate activists and groups like Public Citizen and the Sierra Club are fueling data center opposition across the United States with progressive funding.
In today's issue: ▪ Iran war approach shifts ▪ Trump gives Paxton a boost ▪ Warsh makes key Fed speech ▪ Leavitt’s last day Today marks six months since the start of the war with Iran, which President Trump said would last for four to five weeks. The conflict has settled into a tense but relatively quiet holding...
The key fact: The creatine did something for people who were already training. The barbell is the intervention — the powder is just a rounding adjustment.
Thirty-one percent of Generation Z-ers who voted for President Trump say they regret it, a recent Navigator poll reports. Millennials followed at 28 percent, with 20 percent of Gen Xers and 10 percent of Baby Boomers saying they regret backing Trump, too. It’s another sign of the dismal polling Trump and the GOP are facing as Republican lawmakers...
When Pete Buttigieg appeared at a rally in Michigan earlier this month in an attempt to unify the Democratic Party around Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign, the former transportation secretary wasn't just lending a hand to the candidate. Buttigieg, one of many Democrats circling the 2028 presidential contest, might also have been helping himself. Michigan, which...
President Trump’s goal to reshape the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has hit a snag as a senator from his own party presses the agency for reforms. Trump has nominated four new governors for the USPS board, two of whom — Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo — are headed for a Senate floor...
Negotiations between Senate and House Republicans over a bill to reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have stalled as President Trump is scheduled to visit NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday. The split between the two chambers is a problem for the president, as it could put in jeopardy his priority of establishing a...
OpenAI leads the call among other technology firms for “collective action” against “AI-enabled cyber attacks.” “Today’s AI advances are already giving defenders new ways to fix weaknesses that have accumulated for years. If we act decisively, we can use the defenders’ window to make our digital world much more secure,” the company wrote in a...
A federal judge in Boston has again blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with new mail-in voting restrictions ahead of the November midterms for at least another two weeks. Judge Indira Talwani ruled Thursday night that a group of blue states and private voting rights groups were likely to succeed in their claims that...
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday the Pentagon's blacklisting of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic earlier this year was illegal, violating the First Amendment. In a ruling Thursday evening, Judge Rita Lin said the Trump administration retaliated against the Claude-maker for its "constitutionally protected activity," and violated the Due Process clause of the...
A Florida grand jury found Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-Fla.) administration “misappropriated” a payment from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation — an organization “championed” by first lady Casey DeSantis. The grand jury argued the $10 million transfer was "part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities," according to a copy of the...
The U.S. military said Thursday that it has cleared all Iranian sea mines along internationally recognized transit routes in the Strait of Hormuz. In a video posted to the social platform X Thursday evening, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said that “the U.S. military has achieved a major milestone in the Strait...
Wisconsin politicians made jokes out of President Trump’s executive order aiming to rename Lake Ontario, jesting about the renaming of Lake Michigan, another Great Lake. On Thursday, the president put his signature on an executive order formally changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid U.S.-Canadian trade tensions. “We’re going to be changing...
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) plans to introduce a bill Monday that would nullify President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The one-page “Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act” bill would ensure the executive order “shall have no force or effect” and “restore the name of Lake Ontario,” according to documents obtained by...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Hemp ban awaits Senators returning from break When Congress returns from August recess next week, House Republicans looking to quickly pass stopgap funding legislation will need to navigate the same potential minefield on hemp that almost tripped up the Senate. ...