Sen. Amy Klobuchar ripped Congress for failing to restrict Big Tech platforms' businesses, as the Minnesota Democrat is renewing her effort to pass antitrust legislation aimed at the tech behemoths following a GOP takeover of the House.
Russian leaders claimed on Wednesday that their forces control eastern Bakhmut, a city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region that has been under a siege for six months. Russian Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said that his group has taken full control of the eastern part of the city, The Associated Press and Reuters reported. He said...
The phrase “identity politics” is used most often either as a term of derision or as an expression of solidarity with those facing systemic oppression. It’s actually a description of reality. The simple fact is that most politics has always been an expression of our identities. Thinkers from James Madison to Sigmund Freud...
With the U.S. government’s far from unblemished credit record, domestic and especially foreign investors can be forgiven for entertaining at least some doubt about the protection afforded to them by the U.S. Constitution.
Afghanistan is the most repressive country for women in the wake of the Taliban takeover in 2021 and has stripped women and girls of many of their fundamental human rights, the United Nations declared on Wednesday. The U.N. mission in Afghanistan said in a statement released on International Women's Day that the new Taliban leaders...
China’s President Xi Jinping thinks he has a great way to swing his weight around Ukraine without actually providing the Russians with military aid, as the Americans, citing unspecified intelligence sources, suspect he’s contemplating. Why not serve as “peacemaker,” perhaps even the prime mover behind talks? Nothing would please Xi more than to exploit negotiations...
Texas Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk will soon issue a ruling in a case that could outright overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a critical abortion pill that has been approved and safely used for two decades. His decision could also prohibit pharmacies from selling the medication. If his decision ultimately goes that far,...
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. Financial markets didn’t want to hear it. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), armed with data, objected. And some Republican senators, worried that the doctor caused the illness, described themselves as...
According to a KXAN analysis, at least 59 districts have made the switch. Some of those districts have recently approved the change effective for the 2023-24 school year.