There is no one culprit behind the civic, legal, and moral decay the country is facing, but there is one institution that is contributing to the problems far more than it is to any solution: the Ivy League.
Lael Brainard, director of President Biden's National Economic Council, said Thursday that the sale of U.S. Steel Corp. to Japan's Nippon Steel "appears to deserve serious scrutiny" amid backlash over the acquisition. "The President believes U.S. Steel was an integral part of our arsenal of democracy in WWII and remains a core component of the...
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), a moderate House member running for the U.S. Senate, said on Wednesday she thought it “makes sense” for former President Trump’s ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment to be left to the federal courts to decide. In an interview on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, Slotkin was asked whether the Colorado Supreme...
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed that there is no politician phonier than fellow candidate Nikki Haley in his latest attack advertisement. DeSantis posted a video on his DeSantis War Room account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, targeting Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Governor. “Aside...
Paul Whelan, a former Marine who has been detained in Russia since 2018, said he feels as if his life is draining away after being left out of prisoner swaps between Moscow and Washington. Whelan has been sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges. He has denied the charges and U.S. diplomats have...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Thursday he has agreed to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, announcing the bilateral meeting following his blockage of a $54 billion European Union package to Kyiv. Orbán said he recently met Zelensky in Argentina, and the Ukrainian leader had requested a meeting at a future point. "I accepted...
A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report The Hill illustration DNC, RNC spar over latest finance reports The Democratic National Committee (DNC) says it has the most money on hand — $20 million — it's ever had heading into an election year, reporting double the...
Several Pulitzer Prize winning authors have joined a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT tool, alleging the tech companies used their copyrighted work to train artificial intelligence (AI) models without permission. The lawsuit, which was originally filed by author Julian Sancton in late November, now features Kai Bird, Taylor...
The Biden campaign on Thursday outlined its arguments and strategy for the president’s reelection bid, focusing heavily in a year-end memo on the threat former President Trump poses to democracy. Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez laid out how the campaign is building out its operation in key states and fine-tuning its message as the...