ALTOONA, Pa. — The pizza was still warm at Family Pizza on Pleasant Valley Boulevard when Andrea Verobish called Blair County’s special election “an election on steroids.” She had just won it overwhelmingly in a state House district Republicans have held since the Carter administration. Across town, though, Democrats were not mourning. They were taking […]
One month after the bond market went ballistic, with the 10-year Treasury yield breaching 4.7% and the 30-year Treasury yield skyrocketing to 5.17%, the market is now well and truly imploding. The benchmark 10-year hasn’t come down, and the 30-year has catapulted toward 5.3%, hitting its highest level since before the Great Recession. The financial […]
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico likes to posture as a Christian pastor. In reality, he is nothing more than a toxic progressive who will happily fuel racial divisions to mobilize the voters he thinks he needs to grab power. The trial of Karmelo Anthony was fairly straightforward. The Texas teenager stabbed and murdered another […]
President Trump Friday defended his decision to temporary suspend higher tariffs on ground beef imports, saying it’s “what the people want.” “We want to get the beef prices down so we will get them down a little bit,” Trump said before boarding Air Force One to fly to South Carolina. “That’s what people want, that’s...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story GOP backlash grows to Trump beef intervention GOP lawmakers and cattle ranchers are immediately raising alarm bells over President Trump’s decision to temporarily lift certain tariffs on imported ground beef to mitigate the cost for American...
The Interior Department has recently shuffled at least 25 senior career staffers, giving them different roles at the department that oversees the nation’s public lands, parks and other resources, a source familiar told The Hill. The employees who were shuffled to new positions at the department belong to the senior executive service (SES), a group...
A Texas court on Friday cut the amount Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay to a family affected by the Sandy Hook shooting after they were subject to harassment when he claimed the attack was a hoax. The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals ruled unanimously to reduce the damages awarded to Neil Heslin...