Presented by Panasonic — The administration will bar drilling and mining in 221,898 acres of the divide’s lands. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden administration bars drilling in central Colorado landscape The Biden administration on Wednesday barred drilling and mining in a Colorado landscape known as the Thompson Divide,...
After weeks of uncertainty, former President Trump posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case Monday with the help of little-known California billionaire Don Hankey. Hankey’s Knight Specialty Insurance Company underwrote Trump’s bond, allowing the former president to move forward with his appeal of the case and preventing New York Attorney...
The White House has asked NASA to create a new time zone for the moon. Arati Prabhakar, the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), said in a letter Tuesday that the office wants NASA to establish a unified standard time for the moon and “celestial bodies other than Earth”...
Former ESPN host Sage Steele said the network instructed her to follow a “script” when conducting a pre-taped interview with President Biden in 2021. “That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured,” Steele said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. “And I was told, ‘You will say every word...
A New York judge rejected former President Trump’s presidential immunity claims in his hush money case Wednesday, saying Trump waited too long to raise the defense. Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling removes another pathway for Trump to delay his upcoming hush money trial, which on April 15 is slated to become the first criminal trial of...
The Supreme Court’s approval rating is on the rise, according to a new poll. The Marquette University Law School poll, released Wednesday, found that 47 percent of Americans said they either “strongly” or “somewhat" approve of “the way the Supreme Court is handling its job” in March, up from 40 percent the previous month. The...
One of the 12 subcommittee chairs on the powerful House Appropriations Committee is calling for the Republican Party to hold off on a speedy election for the panel's next leader. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), chair of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees funding for departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, urged his colleagues in...
President Biden sat for an interview Wednesday with Univision, taking questions from one of the country's largest Spanish-language broadcasters. The interview will air April 9, the White House said. Vanity Fair first reported that Enrique Acevedo was set to interview Biden at the White House. The outlet also reported Acevedo conducted an interview with Biden...
Two brothers pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday for their roles in a $22 million insider trading scheme connected to the company that took former President Trump’s social media company public. Florida venture capitalist Michael Shvartsman, 53, and his brother, Gerald, 46, each pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud, which carries a maximum...
The White House called out the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) budget proposal for potentially cutting funding of programs addressing the opioid crisis. In a new fact sheet first obtained by The Hill, the White House breaks down how the RSC plan would cut the nondefense budget by about 30 percent, arguing that figure would include...
Just over 20 percent of Americans indicated that violence may be necessary to secure political objectives in 2024, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Roughly equivalent portions of Democratic and Independent respondents said that they see violence as an option, with 28 percent of Republicans agreeing violence may be a political strategy. Previous reports...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story What the Florida abortion rulings mean for Biden A pair of rulings from the state Supreme Court simultaneously upheld Florida’s 15-week abortion ban and greenlit a ballot measure to enshrine protections in the state constitution, offering a potential boost to...
Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces 1.03 megatons — more than 1.03 billion kilograms, or 2.3 billion pounds — of carbon dioxide emissions each year, a new study has found. Almost 90 percent of these emissions can be linked to transportation to and from the destination, according to the study, published on Wednesday in PLOS Climate....
