Civil rights lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina has documented 529 attacks on the Catholic Church by Nicaragua's dictatorship in the last five years.
Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has asked to speak to the Senate Democratic conference on Thursday in an attempt to stem the growing political momentum among Democratic senators who say he should resign after being indicted on federal corruption and bribery charges. Menendez has already relinquished his post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations...
Seven qualified Republican presidential candidates are set to take the stage in Simi Valley, Calif., Wednesday night for the party’s second primary debate, and the contenders are spending the run-up in the gym, with their families and listening to music. Sen. Tim Scott’s campaign told The Hill that he plans to spend time “in prayer,...
Mick Jagger says he’s considering one day donating his song catalog to charity. “The children don’t need $500 million to live well,” The Rolling Stones frontman said in a profile published Tuesday in WSJ Magazine. “Come on,” Jagger, 80, said. While Jagger said he didn’t have plans to sell the British band’s post-1971 catalog — copyrights to...
The House Armed Services is expected to grill top Biden administration officials during a Thursday hearing after a planned headquarters shift for U.S. Space Command was scrapped by the Biden administration, which infuriated Alabama Republicans. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, will lead a full committee hearing at 10...
Steven Rattner, the head of former President Obama's auto industry task force, called President Biden’s visit to Michigan and a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line “outrageous” in a Wednesday interview. “For him to be going on a picket line is outrageous,” Rattner, a former journalist who later worked in private equity, said in an...
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, said on Wednesday that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) inspired her to speak up about what she witnessed during the final days of the Trump administration. During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Willie Geist asked Hutchinson how strong of an ally the former Wyoming congresswoman was...
A group of GOP senators on Wednesday are scheduled to hold a press conference on the border crisis. Republicans have ramped up their attacks on Democrats over the increasing number of migrant encounters at the border and the influx of migrants arriving in New York City seeking asylum. U.S. officials encountered 232,972 people at the...
A Montana district court judge has blocked the state from enforcing its ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, adding to a growing list of Republican-led states that have had such bans halted by court orders. Two transgender minors, their parents and two pediatric endocrinologists sued Montana in May, alleging in a lawsuit filed in Missoula...