As he exits stage left, President Joe Biden has proposed a three-point plan to rein in the Supreme Court, the branch of government that the Left increasingly considers a “threat to democracy.” The proposal calls for limiting the terms of Supreme Court justices to 18 years, imposing an “enforceable” code of ethics on the court, […]
The U.S. added 114,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Economists expected the U.S. to add 175,000 jobs and keep the jobless rate steady at 4.1 percent, according to consensus estimates. The July jobs report comes two days after Federal Reserve...
Party platforms matter because they reflect the general consensus of party members nationwide, but they are competing with an array of other intra-party actors and groups that struggle to leave their own marks on the nation's directions and policy outcomes.
Former President Trump pushes back on Democratic attacks that he and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) are "weird" during a podcast interview Thursday. “Nobody’s ever called me weird,” Trump said on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” "They're the weird ones," Trump added of Harris and Democrats. “I’m a lot of things,...
The agreement represents yet another major step in realizing Washington’s long-standing goal to secure a closer security relationship between America’s two powerful East Asian allies.
President Biden and Vice President Harris made their way late Thursday to the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews near Washington to welcome Americans who were wrongly imprisoned by Russia and freed as part of the largest prisoner swap negotiated since the Cold War. For a president who pledged to bring all wrongly detained Americans home and is an...
Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising fossil fuel emissions, a new study has found. The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends in large part on these structures: the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica, the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic currents that warm...
As Vice President Harris weighs her choice for running mate, House Democrats are increasingly advocating for a former colleague: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. First elected to Congress in 2006, Walz served in the House for 12 years and rose to become the top Democrat on the powerful Veterans Affairs Committee before heading home in 2019...
The National Association of Social Workers Political Action for Candidate Election (NASW-PACE) endorsed Vice President Harris on Friday, the group first told The Hill. NASW-PACE, the largest membership organization of professional social workers, said their endorsement stems from Harris’s leadership and historic candidacy and the Biden-Harris administration’s investments in mental health, including investments in the...