Republican Sen. Susan Collins vowed she won't be "intimidated" after her Biddeford office was vandalized, while her Dem rival Troy Jackson stayed silent on the act.
A senior adviser to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced she was leaving the campaign Wednesday, citing an “increasingly hateful and divisive atmosphere,” a blow to the third-party bid as it steps up ballot access efforts nationwide. Angela Stanton King, the campaign’s head of Black voter outreach, said Kennedy’s campaign “no longer aligns with...
The police chief for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been temporarily reassigned after violence erupted at pro-Palestine protests on the university’s campus. In a statement “about campus security processes,” Mary Osako, the vice chancellor for the university’s strategic communications, said the school named Gawin Gibson as the acting chief of police Tuesday....
Former President Trump attacked President Biden for his mental acuity in a radio interview Wednesday, and said he doubts his 2024 presumptive Democratic opponent “will even be running” in November. In an interview on the "Cats & Cosby Show" on WABC 770 AM with hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby, Trump repeated a popular line...
Harvard University’s governing board rejected an effort from faculty Wednesday to allow a group of 13 students sanctioned due to their participation in pro-Palestine protests to receive their degrees and graduate. The Harvard Corporation veto of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) decision, which The Harvard Crimson described as “unprecedented,” underlines tensions between the...
Story at a glance The number of vacant commercial buildings transformed into apartments jumped by more than 17 percent last year, according to a report from RentCafe. Since 2010, more old and unused factories, warehouses, hotels and office buildings are being adapted into apartments as the need for housing grows in the United States....
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said Wednesday that former President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) would “go on a murdering spree” if the presumptive GOP nominee wins a second term in the White House this coming November. In a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on the Office of Personnel Management, Pressley warned of what she...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story ‘Buy now, pay later’ lenders to be regulated as credit cards The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has moved to classify popular “buy now, pay later” applications as credit cards, which would allow customers the ability...
The prospect that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might soon address a joint session of Congress is already stirring a storm of controversy on Capitol Hill, where liberal Democrats — up in arms over Israel’s conduct in the war with Hamas — are already vowing a boycott. The bitter conflict has been an ongoing headache for...
The Colorado Republican Party called on parents Tuesday to pull their children out of public schools in the state, citing “LGBTQ indoctrination.” “Our next policy aims to save Colorado children from progressive Democrats who want to turn more kids trans by requiring teachers to use ‘pronouns’ that do not make any sense and cause gender...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Wednesday announced he will join the race to replace retiring Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), throwing a wild card in the race to head a potential new Senate GOP majority in 2025. Scott’s decision to jump into the race gives his Senate Republican colleagues a more conservative alternative to...
The House passed legislation Wednesday laying out a new framework for when cryptocurrencies should be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The lower chamber voted 279-136 to pass the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT 21), despite opposition from SEC Chair Gary...
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) filed a suit against TikTok on Wednesday, accusing the social media giant of being “addictive and harmful to teens and children,” adding that the app is “fueling a youth mental health crisis.” The suit claims that TikTok’s algorithm and content distribution structure provides minor users with harmful content without...
A new study found a “pervasive” presence of microplastics in human and dog testicles. The research, published last week in the Toxicological Sciences journal, found that out of all 47 canine and 23 human testes that were examined, all had a presence of microplastics. The findings suggest that there are potential consequences for male fertility....
