CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker revealed Monday that he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes two years ago and began taking a GLP-1 medication, resulting in an 80-pound...
Rep. Lauren Boebert scolded news outlets for running stories about an ethics complaint that alleged she had inappropriate sexual relationships with three staffers, including two women.
More than a dozen Democratic senators called on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to relax guidelines around federal tax subsidies for the hydrogen industry in a letter this week. The current guidance, backed by green and progressive advocates, requires eligible companies use new energy rather than preexisting energy from the grid, while also ensuring that new...
President Biden on Thursday announced a new $225 million aid package for Ukraine that includes a Patriot air defense system to defend its skies further against continued Russian airstrikes, a decision revealed as he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky, who met with Biden at the NATO Summit in Washington, D.C., praised the announcement...
President Biden is facing growing calls to withdraw from the top of his party’s ticket ahead of a press conference on Thursday the White House hopes might reassure Democrats that he is ready to campaign and win in November. At times on Thursday it appeared the walls were closing in on Biden and his campaign,...
Most U.S. adults say an unwillingness among some to accept election outcomes is a “major problem for America,” according to a poll released Thursday. In the Monmouth University poll, conducted June 6-10, 58 percent of U.S. adults agree with this assessment — including 74 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents. Among Republican respondents,...
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) does not believe President Biden’s press conference after the NATO summit will be “political salvation” for his reelection campaign. "Neither the press conference tonight nor the NBC interview on Monday evening will offer the President the political salvation he seems to be seeking," Torres said in a post to the social...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday predicted Democrats will force President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race and will nominate Vice President Harris or former first lady Michelle Obama to replace him at the top of the party's ticket. "I put the odds at about 80 percent [Democrats] dump [Biden], and if and when...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) gave a terse "no" on Thursday when pressed on whether President Biden will hurt the Democrats’ efforts to seize control of the House. The Democratic leader's comments came ahead of Biden's high-stakes press conference to close the NATO summit in Washington, as tensions continue to build within the caucus...
CNN anchor Jake Tapper is demanding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign remove an ad from social media that manipulates footage from news broadcasts falsely portraying them boosting his candidacy. The ad, published Wednesday evening, is deceptively edited to show leading cable news hosts such as Tapper, Dana Bash, MSNBC's Joy Reid and others saying Democrats...
Pfizer announced Thursday plans to move forward with an oral daily weight loss medication in the same drug category as treatments including Ozempic and Zepbound. The pharmaceutical giant said clinical evaluation of once-daily doses of its oral GLP-1 agonist candidate danuglipron demonstrated "encouraging" data. Dose optimization studies are planned. Pfizer had been looking into a...
Journalists, songwriters and other artists would be given control over whether their content is used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems under a new bipartisan bill introduced Thursday in the Senate. The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act, or COPIED Act, would require platforms that develop or share AI...
A pair of Oversight Committee Democrats are asking a government watchdog to investigate the amount of federal funding directed toward crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), anti-abortion nonprofits designed to convince people not to terminate pregnancies. In a letter sent Thursday to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and shared first with The Hill, ranking member Rep. Jamie...
The Biden administration designated a Venezuelan gang a transnational criminal organization on Thursday. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control accused Tren de Aragua of human trafficking, gender-based violence, money laundering and drug trafficking. It is offering up to a $12 million reward for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of Tren...
The Supreme Court's majority opinion in the presidential immunity case is a stark example of cherry-picking text and history, which could threaten democracy itself.
