In Ireland this week, well-wishers have lined the streets to catch a mere glimpse of President Joe Biden. Photos of his smiling face are plastered on shop windows, and one admirer held a sign reading, "2024 - Make Joe President Again."
Last year it was Uvalde. Now it's Nashville and Louisville. For the second year in a row, the National Rifle Association is holding its annual convention within days of mass shootings that shook the nation.
Welcome to America: land of the free, home of the brave, and, in Washington, D.C., the purgatory of passport control lines. At Northern Virginia’s Dulles Airport, thousands of weary travelers these days are greeted with a first impression of a country that's less "amber waves of grain" and more "snaking queues of disdain."
Former Trump administration director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe appeared before the grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection and Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, according to ABC News. Ratcliffe joins Trump aide Steven Miller and homeland security official Ken Cuccinelli as one of a number of Trump administration officials that have been...
New guidance from the Office of Management and Budget urges federal workers to return to the office full-time, while still allowing some flexibility for working from home. The 19-page memo from the Biden administration office does not set concrete dates or targets for moving to in-office work, and does encourage remote work where it has...
Former President Trump on Thursday was back in a New York City courtroom, facing questions under oath for “nearly seven hours” in a business fraud case brought by the state of New York, according to his lawyer. Trump was arrested and charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records earlier this month in New York...
San Francisco Police on Thursday arrested Nima Momeni in the stabbing death of tech executive Bob Lee, one of the founders of CashApp. Momeni and Lee knew each other, according to police, though how is still unknown. Momeni runs an IT services company in the Bay Area, according to his profile on LinkedIn and state...
In an earlier piece in The Hill, I emphasized the imperative, laid down in the Constitution itself, of meeting America’s debt obligations and underscored the damaging consequences of default — or even of threatening to use default to exert political leverage. Both could have catastrophic effects on our economy, our society and public confidence in...
The Supreme Court will not stop a legal settlement which would cancel more than $6 billion in student loan debt from students who say they were misled by their schools, mostly for-profit institutions. The settlement is the result of a class-action suit from nearly 200,000 borrowers against the Department of Education in 2019, which accused...