The DOJ has filed a lawsuit against Connecticut and its city of New Haven, arguing that their sanctuary policies interfere with federal immigration enforcement.
New York City on Wednesday sued several major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, accusing them of fueling a youth mental health crisis. The city, its public schools, and its health and hospital system allege that the companies have sought to maximize engagement among young people at the cost of their mental health. ...
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on a fraud charge, becoming the second prominent foe of President Trump to face criminal charges after he vowed to seek retribution against his perceived enemies. The indictment came in the Eastern District of Virginia following an investigation into allegations of mortgage fraud,...
The vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to look into the timing of other childhood vaccine schedules, soon after it voted to delay the measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) shared it would be establishing a Childhood and Adolescent...
Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) will take on Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in a debate Thursday night ahead of November's gubernatorial election. The exclusive debate will be hosted by WAVY 10, an NBC affiliate station owned by Nexstar, which also owns The Hill. It marks the only time voters will see the candidates face...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown. “If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don’t show up to work … they’re the problem children,” Duffy said, according to CNN. “We need more controllers, but we need the...
Almost every Senate Republican on Thursday urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “reevaluate” whether a newly approved generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone should stay on the market. The letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary from 51 of 53 Republican senators...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Thursday said President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize if the current peace plan between Israel and Hamas doesn't fall apart. “Do you think the president deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?” Fox News’s Aishah Hasnie asked Fetterman on “America’s Newsroom.” “Well, I mean, if this sticks. I think that the...
Obesity is a major public health and economic challenge in the US, costing the health care system an estimated $173 billion annually, and the Congressional Budget Office should refine its scoring methods to account for the long-term economic and societal costs of obesity and the efforts to mitigate it.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretched into its ninth day. Jeffries has doubled down in recent days on Democrats' demands that expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies be addressed in any continuing resolution. On Wednesday, the lawmaker and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) traded barbs...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his belief that President Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, citing Trump's 20-point peace plan to end the two-year war in Gaza. "Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize — he deserves it!" Netanyahu wrote on social platform X. The post also includes an image generated with...
I am not drinking some liberal pro-environment ivory tower Kool-aid about climate change. Instead, it has been my own experiments, which were never focused on climate change, that have been telling me repeatedly that the Earth’s biggest pollution problem is increased temperatures.
President Trump's moment of truth as a global peacemaker will come early Friday morning when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the prize. “In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars,” he claimed during his address to the United Nations...
