I was still at work in my office when the texts started coming in. “Are you watching this?” they all asked. “Get on Twitter immediately!” some suggested. The “this” that the messages referred to was the disastrous press conference held last Thursday night by President (as of this writing) Joe Biden, where he seemed confused […]
The Odysseus lunar lander made a historic moon landing Thursday afternoon, becoming the first private spacecraft to do so and marking the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years. “I know this was a nail-biter, but we are on the surface, and we are transmitting. Welcome to the moon,” Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen...
The New York attorney general’s office is asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to double down on its warnings and discourage the use of an asthma drug. “The New York Office of the Attorney General writes to encourage the FDA to address the dangers of montelukast, particularly to the most vulnerable population—minor children—and protect...
The U.S. has charged four foreign nationals with shipping Iranian-made weapon parts to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, a shipment that was seized by Navy SEALS in a daring raid last month off the coast of Somalia. The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment Thursday against Muhammad Pahlawan, Mohammad Mazhar, Ghufran Ullah and Izhar...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA lets eight states sell high-ethanol gas all year The Biden administration will allow eight states to sell gasoline made up of a higher concentration of ethanol all year— though it's doing so one-year later than...
Some scholars refer to CON laws as a “competitor’s veto.” I call them “permission to compete” laws. Whatever you call them, these laws assault patient autonomy by empowering a government commission and its cronies to decide how many and what kinds of health care services West Virginians can access.
Experts from the United Nations issued a statement this week criticizing companies for chemical contamination in North Carolina. In a statement, a group from the U.N. that included Marcos Orellana, special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, called out chemical companies DuPont and Chemours. “Even as DuPont and Chemours had information about the toxic impacts...