A new California bill aims to prevent employers from reaching out to their employees outside of work hours. The bill, AB 2751, introduced by State Assemblymember Matt Haney, aims to bring greater work-life balance to employees in California by creating a “right-to-disconnect” from calls, texts and emails after work hours. The legislation would have California...
Kellyanne Conway, a former senior adviser to former President Trump, said the reason why Democrats are “partly” losing minority voters is because of their “attack” on religion. “You have so many Democrats who seem hostile to religion, I think it's partly why they're losing voters of color because if you go into any Catholic Church,...
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb on Wednesday predicted that the 11th Circuit Court could ultimately decide to remove Judge Aileen Cannon from the case involving former President Trump’s mishandling of classified documents at his estate in Florida. In an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” the former Trump administration official pointed to special counsel...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday likened Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to a Democrat as she doubled down on threats to push forward with an effort to oust him from his post. In a phone interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday, Greene reportedly showed no sign of being deterred by warnings from within her conference...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. would consider imposing tariffs and other trade barriers on China to protect industries impacted by Beijing’s ramped-up production. "We are trying to nurture an industry in, for example, solar cells, electric batteries, electric vehicles," Yellen said Wednesday in Alaska during a stopover before going to China, according to...
An Alabama hospital said it plans to stop offering in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments at the end of this year due to “litigation concerns” surrounding the therapy. Mobile Infirmary said “it will no longer be able to offer” IVF services in a news release on Wednesday. The decision follows Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that people...
The University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC) has agreed to pay up to $4.14 million to student-athletes who were subjected to sexual abuse and discrimination by a former swim coach “for years,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. The settlement agreement was met after the DOJ found that Chad Cradock, the former head coach for...
Parts of North America will be dark next week because of a rare celestial phenomenon that will not return for the next few decades. A total solar eclipse is set to take place next Monday, for the first time since 2017, completely blocking off the mask of the sun. What a total solar eclipse is...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Democrats fear Israel-Hamas war could cost them in November Democrats are fearful that Israel’s war in Gaza is turning into a major political liability for President Biden and candidates down the ballot, and one that could...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking prison time for Aimee Harris, the woman who stole the diary of the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden, and sold it to conservative media site Project Veritas for tens of thousands of dollars before the 2020 presidential election. According to the DOJ, Harris was temporarily staying at the Delray...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Biden touts drug pricing action with help from Bernie Sanders Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined President Biden at the White House Wednesday to tout progress they’ve made at lowering drug costs, especially for common medicines like inhalers and...
A three-judge appeals panel in Texas ruled Wednesday that winter storm lawsuits against transmission and distribution utilities (TDUs) can move forward. The ruling came from Texas’s 14th Court of Appeals in Houston and will allow lawsuits related to the deadly 2021 winter storm to proceed on allegations of negligence against defendants CenterPoint Energy, Oncor Electric...
