Aimee Bock and Feeding Our Future welfare fraud case reveals $250 million scheme with luxury cars, mansions bought using stolen federal nutrition funds.
Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam launched a Democratic primary challenge against Rep. Valerie Foushee, D-N.C., with endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and progressive groups.
Mexico’s legislature deserves praise for its stand against Beijing last week, approving a new law that will impose tariffs of up to 50% on Chinese imports. Backed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, the measure targets roughly $125 billion in annual trade and signals that Mexico is no longer willing to tolerate China’s long-running trade abuses. The […]
Vice President Kamala Harris thanked supporters for defending democracy at the DNC's winter meeting addressing the affordability crisis and outlining the party's future vision.
Pressure is mounting on Congress to act after Australia’s under-16 social media ban sparked calls from U.S. lawmakers to better protect children online.
Democratic strategist James Carville is pushing Democrats to run on “pure economic rage” in an opinion piece for The New York Times. “It is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression,” Carville said in the piece published Monday. “It is...
Senate Democrats are asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi to declassify and publicly release the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel’s classified, written opinion outlining the legal basis for the Trump administration's strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Thirteen Senate Democrats, all members of the...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Ron Johnson shoots down tariff checks Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), a leading fiscal hawk in the Senate, says the country “can’t afford” President Trump’s proposal to send out $2,000 tariff “dividend” checks to working-class Americans to...
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order establishing the "Genesis Mission," a new endeavor to expand AI resources for scientific research. The Genesis Mission, which the administration is comparing to the Apollo program that sent Americans to the moon in the late 1960s, seeks to create an integrated AI platform that brings together federal datasets, computing resources and AI tools to boost scientific discovery. “Since the 1990s, America's scientific edge...
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) holds a nine-point edge over Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) in a new poll of likely Democratic primary voters, but over a third are still undecided. Markey, a progressive, garnered support from 34 percent of respondents to November's Bay State Poll, a States of Opinion Project released on Monday by the University...
Abortion is illegal again in North Dakota after the state Supreme Court reversed a decision from a lower court on Friday, allowing a near-total ban to take effect. The law makes it illegal for anyone to perform an abortion, though it exempts individual patients. Violating the ban is considered a class C felony, so physicians...
Former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) announced Monday he’s launching a bid for Alabama governor, setting up a likely rematch against a former rival, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), next year. “Because Alabama, you folks in Alabama, deserve a governor who is going to fight for them,” Jones said in a video on the social platform X....
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order that would allow his administration to designate certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. The order directs Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to determine whether any chapters of the organization warrant the designation, which would allow for increased sanctions...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who is running for governor in the Golden State, said Sunday residents of his state want a “get s--- done approach on lowering prices.” “People are telling me they want a fighter, a protector, but also a get s--- done approach on lowering prices. And that's, frankly, why I'm running,” Swalwell...
