President Biden will spend the next 11 months balancing the job of governing with his reelection bid, traveling the country as he seeks to convince voters he deserves a second term. The president has already signaled what key issues will be consistent parts of his pitch to voters, and he has in many ways already...
After Russian forces occupied her town near Kyiv in the early days of the February 2022 invasion, 14-year-old Ukrainian student Tanya Bondarchuk remembers feeling shocked and in disbelief. Her parents woke her abruptly and said the war had started. “Later, I got up and really understood that the war had begun,” she told The Hill. “While...
Democrats and Republican both suffered disappointing defeats and big victories during the 2023 off-year election cycle, including in gubernatorial, mayoral and local races.
It was piracy on the high seas that drove the infant United States into its first foreign war. In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with the Barbary States, which had been kidnapping American sailors. The U.S., they said, was a new nation, and had done the people of North Africa no wrong. The Tripolitanian representative, Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, told them in reply: “It is written in the Koran that all nations which have not acknowledged the Prophet are sinners, whom it is the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave.”
Al Gore offered a grim outlook Sunday for world migration patterns, predicting that migrants "crossing international borders in larger numbers" might soon be the result of climate change.
The Supreme Court's refusal to fast-track a hearing on Donald Trump's immunity claims has set up a legal battle that could drag on for months, a prominent former federal prosecutor warned Sunday.