Asset management firm BlackRock is leaving a climate-focused investing group, the group confirmed. “We are disappointed to see any investor withdraw, but as a voluntary initiative, we respect any individual decisions signatories take,” said a spokesperson for the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative in an emailed statement to The Hill. “Climate risk is financial risk. NZAM...
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) signaled he is seriously considering challenging Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) for his post in 2026. “I’m considering it,” Meuser told The Hill on Thursday. “I mean if I get in it’s because I think I can win and that means beating the incumbent, which is Josh Shapiro. So it’s no...
President Biden will give brief remarks Thursday about the wildfires raging in the Los Angeles region that have killed at least five people, forced thousands to evacuate and caused irrevocable damage to homes and neighborhoods across California. Biden is expected to convene senior administration officials for a briefing at the White House on the full...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was detained amid antigovernment protests in Caracas on Thursday, a day before President Nicolás Maduro is expected to be sworn in to a third full term in office. Machado, who was prevented from running for president by Maduro’s government, is a key figure behind Edmundo González Urrutia, the opposition...
Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks performed "Imagine" at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral, which was not taken well by some Christian conservatives on social media.
Several other candidates in the New Jersey governor's race slammed Reps. Gottheimer and Sherrill for their non-votes on the Laken Riley Act in Congress this week.
Republican Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, America's newest governor, appears to take a page from President-elect Trump by proposing a state level DOGE-like government efficiency commission