President Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday morning, in a first follow-up call since the two leaders met in California last year. The timing of the call comes ahead of critical meetings between Washington and allies from the Indo-Pacific, which China views as provocative. This includes a state visit by Japanese Prime...
North Korea test fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile over waters off its east coast Tuesday, according to South Korea’s military. According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the missile was launched in an area close to North Korea’s capital Pyongyang, The Associated Press reported. From there, it went about 600 kilometers (372 miles)...
The owner and management company of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last week asked a federal judge Monday to limit its legal liability for the deadly bridge collapse. In a joint “limitation of liability” filing Monday, Singapore-based Grace Ocean Pte. Ltd., the cargo ship's owner, and Synergy...
Georgia's top election official couldn't curb his enthusiasm over his state's role the final season of Larry David's popular HBO show. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger penned a letter to David poking fun at a critical plot point in "Curb Your Enthusiasm": David, who plays an exaggerated version of himself in the show, was arrested...
Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is edging past Democrats Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. David Trone in the Maryland Senate race, according to a new poll. A Goucher College poll released Tuesday showed Hogan receiving 44 percent of voter support, leading Alsobrooks by 4 points in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up. A separate 11 percent said they...
Former President Trump lashed out against the New York judge overseeing his hush money criminal trial Tuesday, after he expanded a gag order in the case, arguing it is not fair when others "can talk about" him. "I just was informed that another corrupt New York Judge, Juan Merchan, GAGGED me so that I can...
Former President Trump railed against his New York civil fraud case and those involved Monday, calling it a "fabricated election interference con job" just hours after he posted a $175 million bond in the case. In a lengthy post on Truth Social Monday night, Trump argued the judgement will harm New York and called for...
Just as 9/11 ushered in a new era of terrorism, the explosion of synthetic opioids such as illicitly manufactured fentanyl has fundamentally changed the nature of the drug trade.
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried and Binance’s Changpeng Zhao have officially joined the 2024 graduating class of corporate felons, but they surely won’t be the only crypto executives in that club. Unfortunately, without oversight, we won’t know who the other members are until after their companies similarly explode.
Florida Democratic Senate candidate and former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) called two key decisions on abortion from the state’s Supreme Court a “game changer” for the Sunshine State's Senate race in November. In a memo exclusively seen by The Hill Tuesday, Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign said incumbent Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was “vulnerable” on abortion and tied...
The Libre Initiative Action is endorsing Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno on Tuesday, jumping into a key Senate race that could determine the chamber’s majority. Libre Action is the political arm of the Hispanic advocacy group within conservative mega-donor Charles Koch’s political network. The Trump-endorsed Moreno is challenging Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), a three-term...
