Two U.S. Navy aviators ejected while landing on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off the coast of Virginia, and four sailors aboard were also injured in the mishap.
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Nuclear waste at center of testy Nevada Senate race Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown is under fire from Democrats for 2022 remarks in which he expressed support for plans to store federal nuclear waste at...
Former President Trump faced a new threat in his New York criminal trial on Monday. Judge Juan Merchan raised the possibility that he could send Trump to jail if he continues to violate a gag order. Merchan warned about that possibility after fining Trump for the 10th time for breaking the order, which bars the...
ProPublica won the prestigious public service Pulitzer Prize for its investigative reporting on the Supreme Court and the billionaires who gave gifts and free travel to justices for years, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced Monday. The award was given to the staff of ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom, for the “Friends of the Court” series by...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday asked state public health officials to make personal protective equipment (PPE) available to livestock workers to combat the spread of bird flu. The risk of bird flu to the general public still remains low, according to the CDC's assessment, but workers in close proximity to...
Former President Trump on Monday suggested he would be willing to go to jail over repeated violations of his gag order imposed by a New York judge. "This judge has given me a gag order and said you'll go to jail if you violate it,” Trump told reporters after court adjourned for the day in...
A University of Mississippi fraternity has removed a member who was accused of mimicking a monkey to harass a Black protester at the college’s pro-Palestinian encampment. Video of the protests went viral last week, showing a group of white men standing across from a lone Black woman participating in the protest, with the men dancing,...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) on Monday took down a social media post regarding South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after being accused of reinforcing the stereotype that Asians eat dogs. The remarks were made in Moskowitz's repost of a clip from CBS Mornings’ interview with Noem —...
Former President Obama took a side in the ongoing rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake long before it began, predicting in a 2016 interview that Lamar was his pick in a theoretical battle between the industry giants. The topic came up in an interview with YouTube personality Swoozie, when he asked Obama who he...
The financial outlook for Medicare improved in the past year, and the program’s funding to pay all the costs for hospital services of older and disabled beneficiaries won’t run out until 2036, five years later than last year’s estimated date. A stronger than expected economy and lower expenditures on services such as inpatient hospital and...
A dozen GOP senators threatened the International Criminal Court (ICC) with sanctions if the body moves forward with an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other Israeli leaders. The ICC has reportedly considered a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest for weeks as accusations rise of war crimes in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. ...
The Biden administration will grant roughly $285 million in funding from the CHIPS for America Program for development and research of digital twins in the semiconductor industry, the Commerce Department and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced Monday. The latest announcement for the notice of funding opportunity is part of the push from...
A pair of campaign managers for former Presidents Trump and Obama are teaming up for an across-the-aisle podcast that promises to "engage rather than enrage" while diving into the 2024 White House race. Kellyanne Conway, who headed up Trump's 2016 campaign, and David Plouffe, who steered Obama's 2008 White House bid, will join forces for "The...
