United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain defended Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) Wednesday in his contentious primary race. “The @UAW fights for economic justice from the bargaining table to the ballot box,” Fain said in a post on the social platform X. “We need leaders like @JamaalBowmanNY who will fight for the wealthy to pay...
President Biden on Wednesday congratulated Narendra Modi and his National Democratic Alliance coalition for their victory in India’s general election. "Congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Democratic Alliance on their victory, and the nearly 650 million voters in this historic election," Biden said on the social platform X. Modi secured a third term...
Fifty-eight percent of registered voters say they are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll released Wednesday. The voters said their monthly income is consumed by basic living expenses — housing, food, health and transportation — leaving little to no money left over. The poll offers more dismal information for...
Let us now begin the process of restoring the FDIC’s position and reputation as one of the best agencies in government. This will be best accomplished by building a new generation of leaders.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) fired back at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Tuesday evening for suggesting the senator and other members who boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address before Congress are “siding with terrorists.” “It is a disgusting lie,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Tuesday, in response to Johnson’s comment. “I guess, you know,...
Support among Republican voters for allowing convicted felons to be president has risen after former President Trump’s guilty verdict in New York last week, a new poll finds. The survey, conducted by YouGov, comes less than a week after a jury convicted Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, of all 34 felony counts in his...
GOP Senate candidate and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will skip the Republican National Convention slated for next month. Hogan’s campaign confirmed to The Hill that the the former governor will not be attending the GOP’s July convention in Milwaukee, Wis. The convention, where former President Trump is expected to be picked as the party's...
Congress’s job is to regulate what cannot be self-regulated. Over the last several years, it has become abundantly clear that the auto industry’s dangerous business impulses are one of those things.
Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) has led a group of more than 40 Democrats in introducing a resolution to recognize June as Black Music Month. The resolution declares that all American music and music around the world has been informed and shaped by Black music in ways that “transcends genres and styles,” from Negro spirituals to...
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft launched Wednesday from Cape Canaveral carrying two NASA astronauts after several delays in recent weeks due to technical issues. The first crewed Starliner flight lifted off at 10:52 a.m. from Florida with flight commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams on board. The spacecraft entered “stable orbit," Boeing Space said...
The Earth’s warming rate hit a record high last year, though the data did not show climate change is significantly accelerating, according to new research published Tuesday. According to the “Indicators of Global Climate Change” report, last year’s rate of warming reached 0.47 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0.26 degrees Celsius, per decade, up from 0.45 degrees...
Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) on Wednesday said that he believes President Biden is slipping mentally after a report raised new questions about his performance during meetings in recent years Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican, told reporters that he does not “disagree” with The Wall Street Journal’s report that cited dozens of sources...
