The Democratic National Convention begins Monday, with hundreds of delegates, political figures and journalists descending on Chicago for the four-day event. President Biden will deliver the Monday night keynote address at 10:45 p.m. EDT. First lady Jill Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's 2016 nominee, are also expected to speak...
Former President Trump is set to deliver remarks on the economy at a campaign event Monday afternoon in York, Pa. The event is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. EDT. Watch the video above.
A second Trump administration would be bad for Palestine, bad for Israel and bad for America, which is something that even the most ardent protesters should keep firmly in mind.
The setup and density of urban neighborhoods may be exacerbating the intensity of flood risks in areas already suffering from climate-induced weather extremes, University of California (UC) researchers determined in a new study. Cities worldwide have become increasingly prone to flooding due to the compounding impacts of stronger storms and population growth, the authors noted....
Workers at Cornell University have gone on strike on the first day of college move-in after talks on a new contract broke down. Those going on strike include maintenance and facilities workers, dining workers, gardeners, custodians, and agriculture and horticulture workers. “Workers at Cornell are fed up with being exploited and used. The university would...
A Washington appeals court on Friday ordered the Biden administration to rewrite sweeping new pipeline safety rules issued in 2022. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the most recent standards finalized by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. In...
Former President Trump shared a fake photo of Vice President Harris speaking at a communist event in Chicago ahead of the start of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Trump posted the image on Truth Social late on Saturday and again on X on Sunday, adding on to accusations he has made about her recently, calling...
President Biden’s decades-long career is reaching its bitter end after he was forced out by his own party in a presidential race he appeared to be losing to his arch political rival. On the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, a time slot traditionally reserved for lower-level members of the party hierarchy, Biden, 81, will make one of his last major...
The record U.S. oil and gas boom may lie on a bedrock of aggressive sales and legal “compulsion,” a new study has found. Many Ohio landowners who ended up with fracked wells on their properties were forced by state law to accept them, according to findings published on Monday in Nature Energy. Others gave in only after repeated...
In 2020, few thought such a record of accomplishment was possible, and some have compared Biden’s achievements to those of Lyndon B. Johnson and even Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is targeting a handful of vulnerable House Democrats with a mobile billboard outside the Democratic National Convention, which begins Monday in Chicago. Photos of five Democrats who are expected to skip the party event will appear alongside the words “Have You Seen Me?” as the House Republicans' campaign arm...
Symone Sanders Townsend, a former spokesperson for Vice President Harris, said Fox News made her job “honestly exhausting” and accused the news organization of covering Harris differently because of her race and gender. In a post on the social platform X on Monday, Sanders Townsend fired back at a Fox News story whose headline read,...
Two people were arrested Sunday during protests ahead of this week's Democratic National Convention, the Chicago Police Department said Monday. A 23-year-old woman was arrested for criminal defacement of property and resisting/obstructing a peace officer, police confirmed to The Hill. A 28-year-old man was also taken into custody for criminal damage and resisting/obstructing a peace...
