Chevron, the energy company that began relocating its headquarters from the Bay Area to Texas in 2024, wrote a letter Tuesday to Gavin Newsom’s office warning about the proposed changes to the state’s Cap-and-Invest regulations.
Republican Norman Crow is projected to defeat Democrat Judith Taylor in the special election for Alabama State House District 63, according to Decision Desk HQ. Crow, a Tuscaloosa City Council member, defeated Judith Taylor, a retired college professor and chair of the Tuscaloosa County Democratic Executive Committee, for a state House seat that includes parts...
President Trump criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell amid a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the central bank’s ongoing renovations. “He’s either corrupt or incompetent,” Trump told CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil, referring to the price tag and time frame of the project, during an interview that aired Tuesday. Powell said late Sunday that the...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Centrist Dem group plots path ahead on health Potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates have only just started initial jockeying to position themselves for a primary fight. On healthcare, the centrist Democratic group Third Way wants to ensure the party moves beyond...
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) on Tuesday suggested Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should resign to avoid indictment. “If you're the attorney for Jay Powell and you want to avoid an indictment, how about you go to Jeanine Pirro and say, ‘I'll make a deal. I'll step down today, if you'll drop the investigation today.’ To...
Democrats have won two special elections to fill a pair of open seats in Virginia’s General Assembly, according to Decision Desk HQ. The Tuesday contests are part of a series of special elections prompted when Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D), who was elected governor last year and is set to be inaugurated next week, tapped state...
Republican centrists and populists in the House on Tuesday blocked a series of GOP labor bills on the chamber floor, marking the latest blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team, who are increasingly losing their grip on the restive Republican conference. The House was poised to vote Tuesday evening on three Republican...
President Trump appeared to flip off a Ford worker in Michigan in an incident Tuesday caught on video obtained by TMZ. Trump was in the state to give an address on his economic agenda and tour Ford's River Rouge complex in Dearborn. During his walk-through, TMZ reported a staffer yelled "pedophile protector" at the president,...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a federal judge he is unable to locate the more than 100 Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador, arguing against further hearings with the men as it would jeopardize "extraordinarily delicate” discussions with Venezuela's new leadership. Rubio’s declaration, filed Monday night, is a remarkable...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin is denying news reports that his department will no longer consider the cost to human life incurred from two pollutants when making regulatory decisions. New York Times reporter Maxine Joselow, citing internal agency emails and documents, reported Monday that the EPA intends to only calculate the cost to...
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) has teamed up with Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to introduce a bill to block President Trump from taking over Greenland. The legislation, the NATO Unity Protection Act, would prohibit the use of Department of Defense or Department of State funding...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) accused his Republican colleagues of not caring about people killed in U.S. military strikes on boats that the Trump administration accused of smuggling fentanyl into the U.S. In an interview released Tuesday on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Paul said GOP lawmakers “don’t give a s‑‑‑” about people who died on the...
The Trump administration has designated three chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, which it says threaten U.S. interests, as terrorist organizations in an attempt to curtail their financial support. The State Department announced on Tuesday that the label was given to the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group founded in Egypt...
