White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha is stepping down from his role on June 15 to return to his previous job as dean of the Brown School of Public Health, the White House and the university said Thursday. Jha's departure comes weeks after the administration allowed the three-year COVID-19 public health emergency to expire...
Smoke carpeting the East Coast is offering a stark reminder of what’s at stake from climate change. The unusual event, spurred by wildfires in Canada, illustrates the kind of conditions many states, cities and nations may have to deal with on an increasing basis as global warming leads to severe weather and its after-affects. Nightmarish images of...
Republicans are hitting President Biden following a Thursday report that China has reached a deal with Cuba to pay several billion dollars to build an eavesdropping facility on the island nation, though the Cuban and U.S. governments have denied the news. If materialized, the facility, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, would become...
A top Cuban official Thursday issued a flat denial of a Wall Street Journal story that alleged Cuba and China had reached an agreement to install an eavesdropping facility on the island. Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío issued a strongly worded statement, calling the newspaper's information "totally mendacious and unfounded." "They are...
In his recent op-ed for The Hill, “Solutions in search of problems — USDA’s unnecessary intrusion into chicken industry,” National Chicken Council President Mike Brown attacks food safety and labor advocates, calling them a front for “radical activists” seeking “the end of animal agriculture.” But protecting consumers, farmers, and slaughterhouse workers from the chicken industry’s abuse is far from radical. Consider food...
Women with full-time, year-round work will not achieve pay parity with men until 2056, if trends continue as they have since 1967, according to a report released Thursday from the Center for American Progress (CAP). In anticipation of the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Equal Pay Act becoming law, CAP — a left-leaning think tank...
President Biden emphasized Thursday that he has never pressured the Justice Department over whether to bring charges in a case, drawing a contrast with his predecessor, Donald Trump, as a special counsel appears close to deciding whether to indict the former president. Biden was asked at a press conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak...
EXCLUSIVE: President Joe Biden was allegedly paid $5 million by an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm—Burisma Holdings—where his son, Hunter Biden, sat on the board, the confidential human source told the FBI during a June 2020 interview, sources familiar told Fox News Digital.