The Citizens Budget Commission (CBC), a nonpartisan think tank, argued that millionaires are crucial to funding New York City's critical services and the city should work to retain them. “Millionaires are critical to New York’s tax base. In 2012, they comprised less than 1 percent of New York State’s and New York City’s resident filers,...
The Department of Education is threatening sanctions against Denver public schools over their use of all-gender restrooms, the latest Trump administration action against gender-related accommodations. According to a Thursday release from the Education Department, its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) “found that Denver Public Schools (the District) violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of...
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Minnesota officials gave an update on Wednesday’s deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school at a Thursday afternoon press conference, discussing new details about injuries and the background of the suspect, 23-year-old Robin Westman. The shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School killed two children and left 18 others injured, rocking the nation and drawing an...
GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) on Thursday said she was “alarmed” by the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez as ordered by the Trump administration. Monarez was originally asked to resign but ultimately chose to hold firm to the post until the White House informed her of the removal. ...
Two influential GOP senators are expressing unease over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s firing of Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which led to the resignations of four other high-ranking CDC officials. The strongest pushback among Republicans on Capitol Hill came Thursday from Sen....
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing classical architecture as the "preferred and default" style for federal buildings, the latest way Trump has sought to put his stamp on government structures. Trump's order, titled "Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again," requires that he be notified 30 days in advance if government officials intend to...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC headless as top leaders are pushed out or resign Within a single day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lost five top officials, crippling the already embattled agency and spreading panic through the public...
South Carolina is asking the Supreme Court to let it enforce a ban on transgender students using restrooms aligned with their gender identity at school. In an emergency appeal Thursday, the state asked the justices to lift a federal appeals court's ruling blocking it from putting into effect a budget proviso that requires the state...
The Trump administration has picked Deputy Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Jim O'Neill to serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a day after the administration fired current Director Susan Monarez, officials told The Hill. Monarez is contesting her firing, though the White House has confirmed her ouster...
Washington's Metropolitan Police Department closed an investigation into Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) that it launched after police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance in February, according to the congressman and an email exchange shared with The Hill. The woman, originally identified as a significant other, who had called police to a luxury building...
President Trump is lifting a tariff exemption for small packages, subjecting billions of dollars in foreign products to import taxes after months of delay. The White House is canceling the de minimis trade exemption starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday, a move that significantly increases the scale of Trump's trade reforms. The new tariffs will apply...
