A network of about 600 groups, including communist organizations and Democratic Party committees, is mobilizing roughly 3,000 pro-socialist May Day events.
Eight years after the publication of 1984’s Bright Lights, Big City, that riotous and audacious first novel about a twenty-something man crashing and burning in the glittering streets and shadier corners of Manhattan, Jay McInerney broadened his scope and produced a multistranded, multivoiced work. Published in 1992, Brightness Falls documented the charmed lives of New […]
When the Chinese Communist Party’s English-language flagship, Global Times, lectures American readers about the “high energy consumption” of U.S. data centers, it isn’t because Beijing has developed a soft spot for our electric bills. It’s because every server farm we don’t build in Texas or Virginia is one China gets to build first. That line […]
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempt to certify the results of her redistricting constitutional amendment referendum, a procedural step Spanberger had scheduled for today. Now the court has more time to decide whether the governor violated the commonwealth’s Constitution in her mad dash to alter it. The arguments in Virginia’s […]
Inland Ale Works is a great brewery in Cheney, Washington. Established in a remodeled auto shop, the whole place is decorated with photos of old Spokane, Washington, breweries and horse-drawn wagons loaded with beer barrels. There are ads for Rainier, National Bohemian, and Golden Age beers. I was there on Saturday to talk to my […]
Amazon is axing 16,000 jobs as it ramps up a push to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. “The reductions we are making today will impact approximately 16,000 roles across Amazon, and we're again working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted,” Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology Beth Galetti...
The record-breaking measles outbreak in South Carolina has reached nearly 800 cases, making it the largest spread of the disease in the U.S. since it was first declared eliminated at the start of the century. The South Carolina Department of Health on Tuesday reported 89 new measles cases since Friday, bringing the current outbreak total...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) assured Iranian protesters of U.S. support on Tuesday. “To the Iranian people, President Trump has your back, help will be on the way,” Graham said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. “I’m not gonna say any more.” His statement on Fox News echoes President Trump’s comments earlier this month...
The Trump administration is advancing plans to cut down the workforce at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), unions and public interest groups alleged in court. In filing on Tuesday night, the organizations said that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees FEMA, could eliminate more than 10,000 positions in the months ahead. The court...
The Senate on Wednesday will work to advance a six-bill spending package, despite calls from Democrats to separate out Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding after the deadly weekend shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis by federal immigration officials. The incident has put Republicans on defense, and they are starting to splinter over support...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday said she is "definitely going to survive intimidation," not long after she was sprayed with an unknown substance during a town hall event in her district. “And as I said, you know, I’ve survived war and I’m definitely going to survive intimidation or whatever these people think they can...
A high-stakes hearing Friday will bring the immigration crackdown in Minnesota to a head in the courts, as the nation's top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official will be forced to take the stand to explain the agency’s aggressive surge. “The Court’s patience is at an end,” Patrick Schiltz, the chief judge of Minnesota’s federal...
Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Rep. Omar attacked at town hall ▪ Summit promotes ‘Trump accounts’ ▪ Fed announces interest rate decision ▪ Dems worry Trump will interfere with midterms Lawmakers are struggling to find a path forward to avoid a partial government shutdown, with neither side...
