Winston Churchill once observed that, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Variations on that timeless truism can be traced back to the Bible and before. Whether humankind has benefitted from that wisdom is another matter. I recently thought about this when I was asked to interview for a documentary on the...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Ukraine impacted multiple ways by leaked US material The trove of leaked Pentagon documents has the potential to both help and hurt Ukraine, as the documents paint a messier picture of the war but also amp...
An 85-year-old Kansas City homeowner, Andrew D. Lester, who allegedly shot and wounded a Black teen last week after he went to the wrong house, was charged with armed assault on Monday evening. The teen, Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot twice and had been in critical condition since last Thursday, after he went to the...
Two-thirds of respondents said in a new CBS News/You Gov poll that Congress shouldn’t interfere with recent legal investigations involving former President Trump. The new poll, published Monday, found that 67 percent of respondents said that GOP lawmakers shouldn’t interfere with the investigations involving former President Trump, while 33 percent of respondents said that GOP...
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Monday said she did not know what a transgender person was during a hearing on federal legislation to ban transgender women and girls from competing on female sports teams. “I don't know what a trans girl is,” Foxx said Monday during a House hearing on H.R. 734, a bill that...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — About 40 workers at the Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop in the Vermont city where the company was founded announced Monday that they plan to form a union."Collectively, we have come to embody Ben and Jerry's slogan of 'peace, love, and ice cream,'" they said they wrote to management. The...
A new battle in the political war over former President Trump’s indictment took place in New York on Monday. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a key Trump ally, held a field hearing. The hearing’s official title was “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan” — and several such victims did testify. But the hearing was...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden's EV push will require efforts on charging, price Electric vehicles have a long way to go on pricing and charging infrastructure to meet a push by the president for EVs to make up two-thirds of...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced it will quit posting content on Elon Musk-owned Twitter, joining other U.S.-based media outlets. “Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter,” CBC wrote in a tweet on Monday. Twitter hit CBC, along with other media...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story McCarthy pitches Wall Street on plan to avert default The GOP House Speaker took to Wall Street to call for significant fiscal reforms to go hand in hand with raising the debt limit later this year,...