Last month Mayor Mamdani conveyed his condolences, and that of the city, to the family of Clarence Woodward, an inmate who passed away on Rikers Island while awaiting trial...
Troy Jackson was a longtime labor activist and logger before he unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. On Monday, he returned to a union hall to tell workers they need to go to the polls this fall - to raise the minimum wage, expand family medical leave and show support for one another.
CBS News’ parent company Paramount filed a pair of motions in district court to dismiss President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit stemming from the “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Harris right before the 2024 presidential election. One of two motions, both filed in U.S. district court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday,...
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to create a government reserve of bitcoin along with a "digital asset stockpile" in the administration's latest embrace of the cryptocurrency industry. According to the order, the U.S. government will use the bitcoin already seized by federal law enforcement while disrupting financial crimes to establish the reserve....
Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was added to the FBI’s 10 most wanted list on Thursday for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking network. Authorities have accused him of shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States. Wedding is a Canadian...
SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded minutes after liftoff, with debris reaching Philadelphia and flights being delayed in a couple of states, including Florida. This was the rocket’s eighth test flight. Similarly to the previous attempt, it ended in the 400-foot-tall rocket disintegrating Thursday. It appeared some of the engines had failed and the rocket was spinning out...
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) worries that if nothing is done to curb Medicare payment cuts to physicians, doctors will no longer be able to afford to run their own private practices. “We’re at a crucible where if we don’t fight these cuts now, if we don’t get rid of them, we don’t reverse them,...
Canadian Sen. Patrick Brazeau challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a charity boxing match over the “bogus” tariffs implemented this week by his father, President Trump. "I know, I still can't believe it myself. But I no longer smoke and have been sober for almost 5 years," the Quebec-based senator said in a Thursday post on...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump reverses on Canada, Mexico tariffs with exemptions President Trump, in his latest reversal on tariffs, signed off on exemptions for imports from Canada and Mexico that are covered under a 2020 North American trade agreement....
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said three states would face tariffs on electricity after a week of President Trump’s swipes at Canada with fluctuating trade policies. “I love Americans. It's been 20 years of my life. But in saying that, no, we're going to put a 25 percent tariff on electricity coming from Ontario to Michigan,...
New Zealand's top diplomat in the United Kingdom was fired after making comments about President Trump in London earlier this week. New Zealand's high commissioner to the U.K., Phil Goff, was terminated from his role after questioning Trump's knowledge of history during an event hosted by an international affairs think tank, Chatham House, on Tuesday. ...
President Trump said MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow “should be forced to resign” while criticizing the network for low show ratings. “Worse than CNN is ‘MS-DNC,’ which is the worst. And the good news is very few people watch them anymore,” he told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office. “They have lost such...
President Trump is facing slumping consumer confidence and deepening concern among business leaders ahead of the first jobs report of his new administration. Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report. But tumbling markets in the...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to release some foreign aid payments by Monday evening to U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors and nonprofits who challenged the freeze, a decision he called the “first concrete step” toward compliance with his previous order to resume existing foreign aid contracts. U.S. District...
