Canada's assisted-suicide numbers, and shocking stories like Brigitte Stegemann’s, are a warning to America of where the euthanasia movement is headed.
The House on Tuesday approved a package aimed at boosting the nation’s access to outdoor recreation. The bipartisan EXPLORE Act, contains provisions that seek to open up more opportunities for spending time in national parks, forests and other public lands. The legislation passed by a voice vote. If the Senate takes up the legislation, it’s...
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife, Yuko Kishida, to Washington, D.C., with a seafood dinner on Tuesday evening. The couples went to BlackSalt, a seafood restaurant in the Palisades neighborhood of Northwest D.C. The Bidens welcomed the couple to the White House earlier on Tuesday...
Some low-income families in the U.S. could see more expensive broadband bills starting next month when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) makes cuts to its monthly broadband benefits, the agency announced Tuesday. The agency said the monthly benefits cuts are due to Congress not having approved further funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program. The program, which stopped accepting...
A new study suggested that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy is not linked to an increased risk of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or intellectual disability among children. The new study published in the JAMA Network on Tuesday analyzed the data of more than 2.4 million children born in Sweden from 1995 to 2019 with...
{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Pentagon chief claims no evidence Israel has committed genocide Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said there is no evidence that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in its war against Hamas, a claim that came during...
President Biden on Tuesday called Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza a “mistake,” piling on his criticism of the Israeli leader one week after the White House threatened to alter its support. "I think what he's doing is a mistake. I don't agree with his approach," Biden told Univision in...
About 40 percent of U.S. Latino adults believe the U.S. should push for an immediate cease-fire in Israel’s war with Palestinian militant group Hamas, according to a new poll. An Ipsos-Axios poll, published Tuesday, asked 1,000 Latino and Hispanic Americans about their views on the Israel-Hamas war, which has raged on for more than six months...
Ebony Parker, a former elementary school assistant principal in Virginia where a six-year-old student shot his teacher, has been indicted in the case. A special grand jury in Newport News, Va. has charged Parker, 39, with eight counts of child abuse, records unsealed Tuesday show. She was charged on March 11 with child abuse and...
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) said on Tuesday he does not think Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should be ousted from his position for “doing the right thing” and letting Ukraine aid to the floor for a vote. Krishnamoorthi also predicted, in an interview with CNN's Jim Acosta, that enough Democrats would vote to save the speaker...
The Arizona Supreme Court Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that makes performing an abortion a felony. What does it mean? The 4-2 decision rejected arguments for a 15-week abortion ban and makes the medical procedure almost entirely illegal in the state. The Civil War-era law passed decades before Arizona became a state in 1912. The...
Republicans have narrowed the party affiliation gap with Democrats, closing on an advantage heading into the 2024 general election, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The new survey released on Tuesday found the country is close to evenly split among party lines with nearly half of the registered voters, 49 percent, identifying as...
The April 15 tax filing deadline is less than a week away at a pivotal moment for U.S. tax administration, with the IRS undergoing big changes in the wake of a major funding boost and offering new ways for Americans to file their taxes. As of March 29, the IRS has received more than 90.3...
