People are having fewer babies than ever before. Birthrates have fallen for more than 15 years, and last month, the United States announced a record-low total fertility rate of 1.62 babies per woman in 2023. Yet, the Social Security Administration, in its newest calculations about the future of the trust fund, assumed the birth rate […]
CUMBERLAND, Maryland — When former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan won the Republican primary race last month for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat, many experts speculated that would be his high-water mark and everything would go downhill from there. Case in point: When Angela Alsobrooks emerged as the winner of the Democratic primary, Politico reported […]
BIDEN’S DANGEROUS DEFICIT. Just a few months ago, in February, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the federal budget deficit for 2024 would be $1.5 trillion. That is bad enough, but the CBO has revised its forecast: The 2024 deficit will now be $1.9 trillion. That is a 27% increase in the gap between federal government spending […]
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended a law he signed this week that will require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. Joining Fox News Channel’s Sandra Smith Friday for his first interview since signing the bill into law Wednesday, Landry said he believes in displaying a historical document, “especially something that...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Supreme Court denies motion to resolve Rio Grande dispute without federal input New Mexico and Texas cannot move forward with a deal aimed at resolving a decadelong dispute over Rio Grande management, due to their failure...
Four years after last facing off against each other, President Biden will debate former President Trump on June 27 at 9 p.m. EDT. Trump and Biden decided to flout the Commission on Presidential Debates to debate each other far earlier than is normal for a presidential election. The second debate is scheduled Sept. 10, hosted...
Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, will speak at the Republican National Committee (RNC) convention in Milwaukee. “When I am back in the White House, the hardworking Teamsters, and all working Americans, will once again have a country they can afford to live in and be respected around the world,” former President...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Friday it is investigating an “incident” in which a Southwest Airlines flight “descended to a low altitude” near Oklahoma City on Wednesday. “After an automated warning sounded, an air traffic controller alerted the crew of Southwest Airlines Flight 4069 that the aircraft had descended to a low altitude nine...
Prosecutors in former President Trump's New York hush money case asked a judge Thursday to keep his gag order in place until Trump's sentencing in July. The move comes nearly a month after a Manhattan jury convicted the former president on 34 counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial. The...