An air of triumph surrounded D.C. Council member Trayon White after a judge declared a mistrial Monday in his federal bribery case, while some of his council colleagues have spoken up about the ethics violations revealed during his legal saga.
The State Department has determined that at least five Israeli military units were involved in gross violations of human rights, but is holding back on imposing any consequences amid discussions with the Israeli government, officials said Monday. The State Department said the violations are specific to Israel’s military operations among Palestinian communities in the West...
Bob Bakish is stepping down as head of media conglomerate Paramount, the company announced on Monday. Bakish's resignation comes as the massive legacy media brand is negotiating a potential sale with Skydance after months of fielding offers from potential buyers. The company said with Bakish leaving, it is creating an "Office of the CEO" consisting of...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday slammed reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is planning on issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. In a statement, Johnson called the reported arrest warrants illegitimate and said, “Instead of wrongly targeting Israel,” the ICC should redirect its focus to...
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused MSNBC's Katy Tur of being an "apologist" for former President Trump on Monday. During an appearance on the network, Pelosi touted President Biden's record on the economy, saying, he "created 9 million jobs in his term in office. Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a fine totaling $200 million to the nation’s four largest mobile carriers after concluding an investigation that found the companies illegally shared access to customers’ location data, the agency said Monday. T-Mobile received the biggest fine of $80 million, along with a $12 million fine for its subsidiary,...
A fiery battle between former President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is heating up as polls begin to show that the third-party candidate represents just as much of a threat to the former president as he does to President Biden. “RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in...
Five companies are responsible for a quarter of all plastic waste worldwide, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances. The study, conducted by the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, involved surveys of plastic waste collected from 2018 to 2022. Of more than 1.8 million pieces of waste collected, more than 900,000...
An overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in its war against Hamas over the militant group running the Gaza Strip, according to a new poll. The Harvard CAPS-Harris survey shared with The Hill showed 80 percent of registered voters said they support Israel more in the war, while 20 percent said they support Hamas more....
Excitement over a 2024 rematch between President Biden and former President Trump is slowly increasing as the general election approaches, according to a new poll. In the poll, published Monday by Monmouth University, 39 percent of voters expressed at least some enthusiasm about a Biden-Trump rematch, up 12 percentage points from December. While enthusiasm might...
Vice President Harris will join Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, hosts of the personal finance podcast "Earn Your Leisure," for a conversation Monday in the Atlanta suburb of College Park. Harris’s trip to Georgia is the first stop on a tour planned to showcase the Biden-Harris administration’s support for local economies. A statement released by...
More than half of voters think former President Trump has committed crimes for which he should be convicted, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll shared with The Hill. Fifty-five percent of surveyed voters think Trump has committed crimes, a finding that comes as the first of four criminal indictments against the former president goes...
An anti-Trump Republican group took a swipe at a series of high-profile politicians including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and former Attorney General Bill Barr for their support of former President Trump after repeatedly expressing concerns about him. In an ad released Sunday, Republican Voters Against Trump warned of several GOP figures suffering from...
