White girls are barred from a public school leadership program in Oak Park, Illinois. A watchdog group says the program is in “direct violation” of the law. “Girls on the Rise” is a “safe space for girls of color,” according to the Wednesday Journal, a local news outlet. Oak Park Township Supervisor Dominique Hickman created the […]
Dozens of big U.S. companies paid their top executives more money than they paid in federal taxes between 2018 and 2022, a new analysis from the progressive Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) found. The report comes as President Biden has proposed raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent,...
Texas faces a brutal climate and development paradox heading deeper into the 21st century, a state climate scientist said. “Everything is bigger in Texas, including our climate challenges,” said Jay Banner, a geologist at the University of Texas at Austin. “Texas sees synergistic issue more than anyplace else,” Banner said. The state is trapped between...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance should be forced to sell the app but argued that the potential for a ban under current legislation is too “extreme.” Khanna voted against a bill on Wednesday that would require ByteDance to divest from TikTok within 165 days or face a ban in U.S....
A close ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused Moscow of directing a brutal attack at his home in Lithuania that left him hospitalized. Leonid Volkov, a top aide to Navalny at his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), posted a video to Telegram with his arm in a cast and held up by a...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story What Buck's retirement means for Boebert Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) will be leaving office early, creating a tighter majority for the Republicans’ already razor-thin control of the chamber, but his departure also creates an interesting issue for a Colorado colleague....
A bicameral group of Democrats pleaded to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put the Senate's foreign aid bill, which includes Ukraine aid, to a floor vote, emphasizing that the war-torn country desperately needs help to fend off the Russian invasion. A mix of House and Senate Democrats called on Johnson to move the Senate-passed...
Former Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) has accepted a position with former President Trump's campaign and will apparently not contest a primary against fellow Republican Addison McDowell, a former staffer to Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) endorsed by Trump in the House race. “I’ve asked Congressman Mark Walker to join my Campaign team to work with Faith...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is floating an ambitious deadline for the chamber to pass Ukraine aid, urging GOP leaders to send a Senate-passed foreign aid package to President Biden’s desk by the end of next week. “The clock is ticking, and we have to get the bipartisan national security bill over the finish...
Nine states this week sued the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a rule that requires publicly traded companies to disclose some climate-related information to potential investors. The lawsuit, led by the state of Iowa, comes after 10 states separately sued the SEC over the rule last week. The rule in question requires publicly traded...