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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, top Republicans announced Thursday night. The top four Congressional leaders officially invited Netanyahu to speak to lawmakers on Friday, capping off weeks of speculation regarding whether or not the prime minister would be extended the opportunity to visit the Capitol amid...
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is set to attend a Washington Mystics game on Friday to mark National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Emhoff will be attending the game at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., where the Mystics will take on WNBA star Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever. National Gun Violence Awareness Day is...
Florida’s state Supreme Court sided with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and denied an effort by a Democratic state attorney to be reinstated after she was removed from office last year. The justices voted 6-1 Thursday to deny State Attorney Monique Worrell’s request to be reinstated after she was suspended from her Orlando-based district last August....
Former President Trump said Thursday revenge “can be justified,” the latest instance of the presumptive GOP nominee leaving the door open to going after his opponents, even as he argued the country is worse off after his criminal trial in New York. Trump sat for an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw, who suggested to the...
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) said Thursday that former President Trump’s New York hush money trial was “persecution,” not “prosecution.” “I’m a former trial court judge,” Abbott said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “And, the reality is, the rulings made by this trial judge in New York are completely wrong...
President Biden on Thursday questioned whether former President Trump was talking about himself after his rival called an immigration executive order by the White House that was announced this week "pathetic." Trump this week said Biden's “executive order won’t stop the invasion, it’s weak, and it’s pathetic,” adding that he believed the order was just...
GameStop stock soared Thursday after “Roaring Kitty,” the originator of the meme stock frenzy, scheduled a YouTube live event for Friday. The livestream is scheduled for June 7 at 12 p.m. ET and already had nearly 13,000 people waiting for it to begin. Business Insider first reported the jump earlier Thursday, noting that the stock...
Rapper 50 Cent said he sees Black men “identifying” with former President Trump in November’s presidential election. 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday alongside civil rights attorney Ben Crump to meet with Republican and Democrat lawmakers. CBS News correspondent Nikole Killion asked him about the “significance of African...
Hunter Biden’s trial will enter its fifth day in Wilmington, Del., Friday. The president’s son is on trial for three alleged offenses pertaining to his purchase of a gun in October 2018. The central question is whether he lied by denying he was an addict when he filled out a form in the process of...
Eleven people were transported to a hospital due to heat exhaustion in Phoenix Thursday while waiting in line for an event featuring former President Trump. The Hill has reached out to the Phoenix Fire Department, but officials told ABC15 they responded to the event, hosted at Dream City Church in north Phoenix, and transported 11...
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is asking a top attorney on special counsel Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago case to sit for an interview with the panel, the latest escalation of its probes into those prosecuting former President Trump. A Thursday letter to Jay Bratt accused the prosecutor of raising the specter of impropriety by...
