President Trump announced Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that eliminate an electric vehicle (EV) mandate introduced under the Biden administration. The 2024 EV mandate aimed to facilitate the transition from gas-powered to EVs by setting new pollution standards for automakers' vehicle fleets, which were intentionally difficult to meet without introducing new electric or...
Former Kennedy Center employees accused the iconic performing arts venue's leadership in a letter to Congress of halting planned waterproofing repairs earlier this year. In the Thursday letter, David Seide, an attorney representing the whistleblowers, shared internal documents which he said challenged the Kennedy Center board's claims that these leaks constituted the venue's immediate closure. ...
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made a subtle dig Wednesday at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's wife, Martha-Ann, after a secret recording revealed her denouncing the display of an LGBTQ Pride flag near her home. Martha-Ann Alito told an undercover activist posing as a religious conservative at an event earlier this month that she wanted to...
The Federal Reserve is projecting a single interest rate cut of a quarter-percent this year, down from three quarter-point cuts as predicted in March, according to the central bank’s latest summary of economic projections. The Fed's expected annual inflation rate for 2024 rose to 2.6 percent from 2.4 percent as core inflation — which removes...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump, GOP make inroads in Silicon Valley Former President Trump took to the Democratic bastion of San Francisco last week to meet with a growing cohort of conservative technology executives, as the GOP appears to be making inroads in traditionally deep...
Spending in the retail and airline sectors saw a boost last month as inflation hit a plateau and consumer prices evened out, according to a new analysis. According to the U.S. Mastercard SpendingPulse report for May, published Wednesday, U.S. total retail sales — not including auto — grew online by 7.8 percent and in store...
The Federal Reserve held interest rates at a 23-year high Wednesday as its battle to bring down inflation drags deeper into 2024. The announcement follows a two-day meeting of the central bank’s monetary policy committee, which raised borrowing rates from near zero in March 2022 to a range of 5.25 percent to 5.5 percent as...
Culture war amendments that could be added to the House’s mammoth annual defense bill threaten to turn the normally bipartisan measure into a partisan one, potentially complicating its path to final approval and creating headaches for GOP leaders down the line. The House will vote this week on whether to attach those amendments to the...
Children who are in residential treatment facilities are at risk for sexual and emotional abuse, physical restraint and overmedication, a new Senate report found. The report, conducted by the Senate Committee on Finance and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, was created after an investigation examined allegations of abuse and neglect at...
Republican views on the social media platform X have “dramatically” changed since 2021, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. The share of Republicans who said X is mostly good for democracy has more than tripled over the past three years, jumping from 17 percent in 2021 to 53 percent in 2024,...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was caught lashing out against ProPublica's investigative reporting in a newly released secret recording, alleging it was biased against the high court for its decisions. Alito made the remarks June 3 at the Supreme Court's Historical Society when he was approached by Lauren Windsor, a progressive filmmaker, who attended the...
An Arizona man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for selling guns as part of an alleged plan to commit a mass shooting and spark a race war ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Mark Adams Prieto, 58, of Prescott, Ariz., was indicted on charges of firearms trafficking, transfer of a firearm for...
The historic practice of redlining may have led to the redistribution of wildlife populations in four of California's largest cities, a new study has found. Neighborhoods that were subject to the discriminatory practice in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland all have less native and non-native wildlife biodiversity compared to that of greenlined...
