The U.S. added 339,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate rose to 3.7 percent, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The job market scrambled the expectations of economists in May. Expert forecasters projected a gain of roughly 195,000 jobs last month, according to consensus estimates, but for the jobless rate to...
A Georgia investigation into former President Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election is looking at his activities in other states, sources tell The Washington Post. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) is reportedly seeking information from two firms that the Trump campaign hired to find election fraud throughout the U.S. following the 2020...
If elected, DeSantis can serve two terms and have a far more lasting impact than Trump, who can serve only one. The Florida governor needs to exploit this built-in advantage.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley suggested on Thursday that the U.S. could “end up with President Harris” if President Biden is reelected, after he fell on stage at the Air Force Academy commencement. “No one should feel good about watching the President fall,” Haley told Fox News Digital. “While this is hard to see, we...
Government price controls that ignore the diverse market factors that affect the pricing of different goods and services are a recipe for harmful market failure, not economic betterment.
Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Blasting past senators’ misgivings and eager to avert default, the Senate leadership on Thursday night nudged approval of a House-passed bill to suspend the debt limit, leaving it to...
Every summer, America’s tens of thousands of public schools undergo a transformation as regular but radical as any in nature. Emptied of their students and staff, many hibernate. But others transform. Public school buildings take up around 2 million acres of land, according to the nonprofit Trust for Public Land, often in the middle of...