TikTok’s fate now rests with the Senate. The House easily approved bipartisan legislation Wednesday that would ban the popular video-sharing app — used by roughly 170 million Americans — if it does not separate itself from ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, sending the controversial measure to the Senate. The vote was 352 to 65. President...
Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) is ahead of Republican David McCormick in Pennsylvania’s closely watched Senate race, according to a new poll, though his lead has narrowed since February. A new Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey in Pennsylvania found Casey with 45 percent support in a potential general election match-up to McCormick’s 41 percent, while another...
Oklahoma was one of the last U.S. states to outlaw cockfighting. A new proposal to weaken penalties for the crime passed the OK House, worrying opponents who thought the matter settled.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said Wednesday that the House would "apply every amount of pressure" on the Senate to pass the bipartisan bill forcing a divestment of TikTok.
GOP Rep. Marc Molinaro is co-sponsoring the "Access to Family Building Act," which looks to defend in vitro fertilization after controversy in Alabama.
Controversy surrounding the annual South by Southwest festival, familiarly called SXSW, has spiked after more than 100 acts, the majority of them European, dropped out over the U.S. Army’s and defense contractors’ sponsorship of the music and cultural event in Austin, Texas. As of Wednesday, five music labels and 105 bands and individual musicians, including...
Questions are growing over whether President Biden and former President Trump will participate in any presidential debates this cycle. Trump has stepped up his calls for Biden to face him in a debate over the past week, saying in a Truth Social post he would debate him “anytime, anywhere, anyplace.” Biden responded late last week...
Remarks last week by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell about a spate of coming bank failures related to the faltering commercial real estate sector have sent shockwaves through the financial world, leading some investors to run for cover and others to look for opportunities. With the typical U.S. commercial lease ranging from three to five...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told Republican senators Wednesday to expect the House to send them legislation to help Ukraine, but cautioned that what comes out of the House will look substantially different than the $95 billion foreign aid package the Senate passed last month. Johnson tried to reassure frustrated GOP senators who asked him about...