On Oct. 1, a new half-cent per dollar sales tax took effect across LA County. It will cost families hundreds of dollars a year. But that's not even the...
LGBTQ advocacy groups are decrying Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen Kunzweiler's announcement that no criminal charges will be filed in connection with the death of Nex Benedict, an Oklahoma high school student who died a day after a fight broke out in the girls’ bathroom at their school. Kunzweiler said in a statement Thursday that...
The $1.2 trillion government funding bill moving through Congress Friday includes a provision that would functionally prohibit Pride flags from flying over U.S. embassies. The provision didn't explicitly say as much, but its text mimics language from similar efforts to ban Pride flags from flying over government buildings. According to the text, "None of the...
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are sending a message of “health and healing” to Kate, the Princess of Wales, following her cancer diagnosis. “We wish health and healing for Kate and the family,” Harry and Meghan said in a statement Friday obtained by ITK. The pair said their hope was...
Cindy McCain, executive director of the United Nations’s World Food Programme (WFP), said Friday that there is an urgent need for food in Gaza amid the war occurring there. “[O]ur obstacles are many,” McCain said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Friday. “We have to be cleared at every level, the Israelis block...
Chelsea Clinton defended Barron Trump on Friday, saying that because he is a private citizen and not involved politically, he should be left alone. When asked on ABC's "The View" how the press should cover former President Trump's son after he turned 18 this week, Clinton argued he had an "unimpeachable right to privacy." "Yesterday,...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story 16 Republican AGs sue Biden administration over LNG exports pause A group of 16 Republican state attorneys general from around the country sued the Biden administration Thursday over its pause on federal permits for new...
New York City saw its population of millionaires jump by 48 percent in a decade, according to a new report. The Big Apple still leads the U.S. — and the world — among wealthy cities. It has nearly 350,000 millionaires and 60 billionaires, according to the USA Wealth Report from an investment migration consultancy firm...
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) suggested that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should make a deal on aid to Ukraine to save his Speakership, as the threat of a motion to vacate loomed over Johnson’s head Friday. “Is she gonna try a motion to vacate? I don’t know,” Kinzinger said on “CNN Newsroom,” in an interview...
Story at a glance Knowing the difference between fact and opinion seems simple, but respondents in a survey published earlier this month were largely unable to correctly identify either. Two researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently published a study on how well American adults can tell the difference between a factual statement and...
Former President Trump on Friday signaled he would not use a potential windfall from the merger involving Truth Social to post bond in a New York fraud judgment ahead of a Monday deadline. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) approved a merger Friday with Truth Social, a media startup owned by Trump, teeing up...
House Republicans are lashing out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over her surprise bid to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from power, warning that it threatens to divide an already warring GOP conference ahead of elections when the House is up for grabs. Greene told reporters she is not bringing her motion to vacate...
Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, told GOP leadership on Friday that she will be stepping down from her post. In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Granger, who previously announced her retirement, requested a replacement “as soon as possible” to serve out the remainder of the congressional session....
