A new watchdog report points to a peril Mayor Zohran Mamdani refuses to see: New York City can't actually afford to bleed its golden geese even more just to...
Republican governors in two southern states are calling state lawmakers back for special sessions next week to consider new congressional maps following a landmark Supreme Court decision that narrowed the scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Alabama lawmakers are set to convene in Montgomery starting Monday to discuss potentially moving the state’s May 19...
The Defense Department has estimated that the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran about $4.8 billion in oil revenue, a Pentagon official familiar with the assessment told The Hill late Friday. The blockade, which was instituted more than two weeks ago, is one of the actions President Trump has used to inflict pressure on Iran...
Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) said on Friday that the Trump administration would need to seek congressional approval before renewing military action against Iran, after officials asserted the 60-day war powers clock stopped running when the ceasefire took effect. “The purpose of the War Powers Act was to assert the constitutional responsibility of Congress to declare...
The Dropkick Murphys, an Irish American Celtic punk rock band, are showing their support for former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone after a clip of him confronting a Jan. 6, 2021, supporter while wearing the band’s T-shirt went viral. The band reposted a video of Fanone in a tense exchange with Ivan Raiklin, a...
The state of Michigan is suing major oil companies and an industry association, alleging that they colluded to hamper the adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). In a lawsuit announced Friday, Michigan sued BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute. It alleged they acted as a “cartel” as part of an effort to...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration's withdrawal from international collaborations. Newsom traveled this week to the...
The Treasury Department announced its Office of Foreign Assets Control will target and place sanctions on nine Iranian shadow fleet vessels and their owners who allegedly transported hundreds of millions in Iranian oil and petroleum to foreign markets. “Today’s sanctions target a critical component of how Iran generates the funds used to repress its own...
Police officials in Lafayette, Ind., said they have arrested five people in the nonfatal shooting of an Indiana judge and his wife at their home that prompted concerns about escalating threats against the judiciary. Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer was shot in the arm, and his wife, Kimberly, was struck in the hip on Sunday. The...
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called for an investigation Friday into a deal that saw TikTok's American business spun off into a separate entity in order to allow the app to continue operating in the U.S. The deal was finalized Thursday, with TikTok announcing it had officially established the new U.S. venture. “After over a year...
President Trump and Vice President Vance each addressed the annual March for Life rally in Washington on Friday, touting the administration’s record in the anti-abortion movement. “In my first term, I was honored to appoint judges and justices who believed in interpreting the Constitution as written,” Trump said in a video address to attendees. “And...
NATO has drifted from its original purpose of preventing Soviet expansion in Europe to a moralizing, expansive alliance that has been involved in numerous interventions and proxy wars, making it an unaccountable and ineffective force for peace.
Various groups opposed to the Trump administration's aggressive operations targeting immigrants in Minnesota are planning mass demonstrations and an "economic blackout" on Friday in an attempt to pressure Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to leave the state. Organizers from more than 100 groups — including labor unions, progressive organizations and religious groups — urged...
