With Chicago facing a billion-dollar deficit this year and Mayor Brandon Johnson sporting a 6.6% approval rating, the Windy City has decided to quadruple down on its profligacy. By a 26-23 vote margin, the City Council approved $830 million in new borrowing through a truly bonkers bond scheme that would defer paying down interest for […]
Former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was obvious during his presidency to anyone who watched him, except apparently to liberal journalists such as CNN’s Jake Tapper. Tapper is releasing a book coauthored with Axios’s Alex Thompson called Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. The press release for […]
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr did not address a social media post by President Trump demanding Comcast be forced to pay "vast sums" to the federal government when asked repeatedly about the post on Thursday. While appearing at a media summit hosted by the news outlet Semafor, Carr said he had not seen...
Bret Baier has secured the first one-on-one interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after his meeting with President Trump at the White House, to discuss the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature voted Thursday to remove gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code, sending the first-of-its-kind measure to Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). The bill, first introduced last week, sped through the legislative process despite widespread opposition from Democrats and LGBTQ rights advocates who flooded the statehouse in Des Moines...
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are expressing concern to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that recent layoffs at U.S. health agencies are threatening the modernization of the organ transplant system. The pair of lawmakers asked Kennedy in a Wednesday letter to disclose which staff at the Health...
China's cyber espionage operations continue to become more aggressive amid the increasing use of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence to help carry out attacks, according to a report published Thursday. CrowdStrike's 2025 Global Threat Report, released Thursday, found China-linked cyber operations surged by 150 percent last year. Attacks targeting the financial services, media, manufacturing and...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began the process of firing hundreds of probationary workers Thursday, the latest mass job cuts within federal agencies, three sources with knowledge of internal operations told The Hill. The cuts, which are said to affect between 560 and 1,830 workers at the agency, were planned for at least...
Senate Republicans on Thursday objected to an effort by Democrats to condemn the Trump administration's decision to vote against a United Nations resolution laying blame for the war in Ukraine at the feet of Russia. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) attempted to pass the resolution through the upper chamber via unanimous consent to take direct aim...