Former President Trump’s campaign has hired another consultant with ties to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to head up its operations in the Sunshine State, according to media reports. Brian Hughes, a longtime Florida political operative who worked on DeSantis’ first campaign for Congress in 2012, is the latest hire by the Trump campaign who previously...
Fifty years after it was created in New York City’s Bronx borough, hip hop is a multi-billion dollar industry that doubles as a powerful political tool for Black Americans. The music for a half-century has highlighted the experiences that Black, Brown and poor people face in America, and has operated as a breaking news service...
Climate change is the major driver of this year's extreme temperatures, not the eruption last year of an underwater volcano near Tonga in the Pacific Ocean, scientists tell The Hill. While the eruption of the volcano may be an aggravating factor, the scientists say it is not having the impact attributed to it by conservative...
A dramatic day in Washington on Friday shook up the 2024 presidential race, causing big problems for President Biden and former President Trump. The more shocking development came when Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the president’s son, Hunter Biden. The special counsel will be David Weiss, who had already...
Abortion rights advocates are looking to follow up on a win in Ohio this week with efforts in numerous states to enshrine abortion protections into state constitutions in 2024. The defeat of a ballot initiative in Ohio is the latest in a series of wins for Democrats and reproductive rights advocates. The proposal, called Issue 1, would have made it harder to amend the Ohio...
Former President Trump is increasingly enmeshed in a tangled web of legal troubles, facing state and federal probes across the country. Trump is a party in more than a half-dozen civil lawsuits and faces 78 criminal charges across three cases, ranging from an alleged hush money cover-up to his purported efforts to overturn the 2020...
The high-profile prosecution of former President Trump for his role in seeking to block the transfer of power is eliciting a long-shot campaign to bring cameras into the courtroom. While the case against Trump itself may be unprecedented, it’s running up against a long-standing federal court precedent that bars televising the hearings or recording them...
Former President Donald Trump, who is leading polls in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, joins other GOP candidates at the annual event, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Both Trump and DeSantis will speak at the fair on Saturday. The Iowa State Fair, which extends from Aug. 11 to Aug. 18, has long been seen as a...