The House Judiciary Committee announced a probe Wednesday into massive bungling by Homeland Security, which failed to file summonses with the immigration courts for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, causing some 200,000 cases to be dismissed.
Rep. Elise Stefanik called on New York Judge Juan Merchan to recuse himself from Donald Trump's hush money case for having a "clear judicial bias" against the former president.
Third World countries have to focus on real-world problems because they do not have the luxury of being affluent enough to worry about climate change. On Saturday, BBC reporter Stephen Sackur interviewed Guyana President Irfaan Ali. He turned the conversation toward the efforts being made to greatly expand Guyana’s oil industry and used it to […]
What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine that the voting public would celebrate policies that resulted in a record-high number of migration encounters — more than three-quarters of a million — in the usually low-immigration months of October, November, and December 2023? Did they […]
While the majority of the country is focused on the November presidential election and the rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, voters in Wisconsin approved changes to the state constitution that could have significant ramifications for November. Two ballot referendums, one that prohibits private funding for election offices and another that […]
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story What the Florida abortion rulings mean for Biden A pair of rulings from the state Supreme Court simultaneously upheld Florida’s 15-week abortion ban and greenlit a ballot measure to enshrine protections in the state constitution, offering a potential boost to...
Just over 20 percent of Americans indicated that violence may be necessary to secure political objectives in 2024, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Roughly equivalent portions of Democratic and Independent respondents said that they see violence as an option, with 28 percent of Republicans agreeing violence may be a political strategy. Previous reports...
Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces 1.03 megatons — more than 1.03 billion kilograms, or 2.3 billion pounds — of carbon dioxide emissions each year, a new study has found. Almost 90 percent of these emissions can be linked to transportation to and from the destination, according to the study, published on Wednesday in PLOS Climate....
Following higher than expected inflation and labor market readings in January and February on the tailwinds of a booming U.S. economy, Federal Reserve officials are suggesting they may keep interest rates higher for longer. “It is too soon to say whether the recent readings represent more than just a bump,” Fed chair Jerome Powell said...