Trump warns Iran it has 48 hours to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or the U.S. will strike and obliterate its power plants, starting with the largest.
A jury on Friday found that Elon Musk misled Twitter's shareholders by driving down Twitter's stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of the company in 2022. The San Francisco jury were asked if two tweets and comments made by Musk on a podcast showed that he deliberately defrauded the shareholders and drove down...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Friday dropped his lawsuit against Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte after Swalwell was accused of mortgage fraud. Swalwell sued Pulte in November, accusing him of abusing his authority in forwarding a criminal referral regarding the lawmaker’s mortgage to the Department of Justice. Swalwell asked the courts to demand Pulte...
A Senate Appropriations subcommittee led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is set to review reports on the abduction of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation at a hearing next month. The Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs will hold the hearing Dec. 3, with multiple witnesses. Among them are Ukrainian Ambassador Olha Stefanishyna,...
The Trump administration is proposing to extend the life of some coal plants and their controversial waste-disposal practices. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Tuesday to allow as many as 11 coal plants to keep operating for three extra years. In 2020, the last Trump administration issued a rule that exempted coal plants from requirements to stop...
President Trump said Wednesday he and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will “fix” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. The president posted a video of workers attending to the pool, with “Time to Say Goodbye” by Andrea Bocelli playing in the background, to his Truth Social platform. Near the end of the video, the...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) on Tuesday signed the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of hair. “Real freedom means being respected for who you are — no matter what you look like, where you come from, who you love, or who you pray...
Former first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that she “felt a loss for us as a nation” when she saw the East Wing of the White House being demolished. In an interview on the Jamie Kern Lima's podcast, Obama was asked what it felt "like for you in your body” when she saw the viral...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Wednesday it is investigating Amazon after one of its drones struck an internet cable in Texas last week. The drone, an MK30 delivery aircraft, struck a line in Waco, Texas, at roughly 12:45 p.m. local time last Tuesday, the FAA told The Hill. A video of the incident released by...
The Interior Department on Tuesday shared plans to increase national park entry fees for non-residents. The new policy will be applied at 11 of the most visited national parks in the U.S., where non-residents without an annual pass will pay an additional $100 per person to enter. Annual passes will cost $80 for U.S. residents...
President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff is under fire after he reportedly instructed a Russian official on how to coach Russia's President Vladimir Putin to approach Trump as the U.S. seeks to broker an end to Moscow's war in Ukraine. Trump defended Witkoff, calling the interaction about a proposed peace plan "a standard thing." “That’s...
