One of the many problems with the Democratic Party’s stance on gun control is that Democrats are already loathe to enforce existing gun laws when dealing with criminals. Last week, an off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer in Washington, D.C., was shot, sending him to the hospital. The suspects had been driving erratically, cutting the officer […]
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Bipartisan Missouri lawmakers blast Johnson for smaller radiation exposure bill Democratic and Republican lawmakers from Missouri blasted Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to schedule a House vote next week on an extension of the Radiation Exposure...
Fox News anchor and legal analyst Shannon Bream pushed back on an assertion made by Alina Habba, one of Donald Trump's attorneys, that President Biden is responsible for the criminal charges the former president faces in New York. "And Joe Biden unfortunately can't really do anything in office," Habba said as she joined Bream, the...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story AI lobbying surged in 2023 The number of lobbyists working on issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) surged in 2023 compared to the previous four years as the federal government considered AI regulation, according to a report released by the advocacy group Public Citizen on...
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced a hearing to examine the past two years since the Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade and the impact of the subsequent "Republican abortion bans." The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which Sanders chairs, will hold the hearing June 4, titled...
North Korea sent a fleet of balloons carrying excrement and trash into South Korea, according to multiple reports. “As already warned by the [North Korean] vice minister of National Defence, a large amount of waste paper and rubbish are being scattered in the border and deep areas of the ROK from the night of May...
President Biden predicted during a speech Wednesday that the next president will be able to appoint two new Supreme Court justices, while warning against former President Trump winning another term. “Guess what, the next president, they’re going to be able to appoint a couple of justices and I’ll be damned—” he said at a rally...
The battle against tyranny takes place in different skies from Normandy, but both the underlying values and the way to victory are still the same. Without better air defense, Ukraine can't win.
Nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of Americans say they feel worn out by the high volume of news coverage of the 2024 presidential campaigns and candidates, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday. About one-third (35 percent) of respondents, on the other hand, said they “like seeing a lot of coverage of the campaign...