The ancient pagan world was full of human sacrifice. The most horrifying instance was child sacrifice. We got an inkling of this in this summer’s smash-hit The Odyssey, with the brief depiction of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds. One of the most important changes that occurred from the pagan to the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian […]
Republican politicians expressed outrage after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to laugh on camera during a memorial for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The feud between President-elect Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is hitting new peaks of intensity as wildfires rage on in Los Angeles. Trump has called on Newsom to resign, while the governor has hit back at Trump for politicizing the disaster. Given the stakes for both men — and the fact that neither...
Google and Boeing have each given $1 million to President-elect Trump’s inaugural committee, joining a growing list of major corporations supporting the Jan. 20 event. “Google is pleased to support the 2025 inauguration, with a livestream on YouTube and a direct link on our homepage. We’re also donating to the inaugural committee,” Karan Bhatia, Google’s...
President Biden on Thursday announced that the federal government will support California’s efforts to fight the raging wildfires for 180 days. “We’re doing literally everything we can at a federal level,” Biden said in a briefing with administration officials about the situation, adding that he called the meeting to decide “what more we could do.”...
President Biden on Thursday said that intentional power outages in the Los Angeles area that were administered in order to prevent more fires from starting were partially to blame for water shortages as officials battle historic wildfires near the city's limits. In a briefing with administration officials from the White House, Biden said generators were...
The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay Kentucky $110 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year alleging it pumped millions of doses of opioids into the state over the course of more than a decade. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) announced the settlement Thursday, saying the money was payment for Kroger's "role in...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he thinks President-elect Trump’s public musings about annexing the neighbor to the north is a distraction from Trump’s threat to impose steep tariffs on Canadian imports. “What I think is happening in this is President Trump, who's a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted...
Asset management firm BlackRock is leaving a climate-focused investing group, the group confirmed. “We are disappointed to see any investor withdraw, but as a voluntary initiative, we respect any individual decisions signatories take,” said a spokesperson for the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative in an emailed statement to The Hill. “Climate risk is financial risk. NZAM...
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) signaled he is seriously considering challenging Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) for his post in 2026. “I’m considering it,” Meuser told The Hill on Thursday. “I mean if I get in it’s because I think I can win and that means beating the incumbent, which is Josh Shapiro. So it’s no...
President Biden will give brief remarks Thursday about the wildfires raging in the Los Angeles region that have killed at least five people, forced thousands to evacuate and caused irrevocable damage to homes and neighborhoods across California. Biden is expected to convene senior administration officials for a briefing at the White House on the full...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was detained amid antigovernment protests in Caracas on Thursday, a day before President Nicolás Maduro is expected to be sworn in to a third full term in office. Machado, who was prevented from running for president by Maduro’s government, is a key figure behind Edmundo González Urrutia, the opposition...
