Top FBI officials ordered an agent to scrub his Facebook page to delete anti-Trump vitriol before they would promote him to head the bureau's Miami field office, a whistleblower has told Congress.
In 2008, Citizens United, an incorporated, conservative advocacy group, was prohibited from paying to advertise or air a documentary movie critical of Hillary Clinton, at the time the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. The reason was a 2002 law prohibiting corporations from paying for communications that even mentioned candidates for federal office. Citizens United sued, and eventually, in January 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a right to advocate the election or defeat of candidates.
WILL STARS ALIGN FOR HALEY IN BIZARRE GOP CONTEST? The political world spends a lot of time discussing former President Donald Trump's lead over the Republican field in national polls — currently at 44.5%, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls. But of course the race will unfold as a series of state contests, beginning in Iowa on Jan. 15, New Hampshire on Jan. 23, Nevada on Feb. 8, and South Carolina on Feb. 24. By then, Republicans should have a pretty good idea who their 2024 presidential nominee will be.
If money can buy happiness, the average person thinks it can be bought for just over $1 million, according to a new poll. A study published by financial planner Empower found more than half of Americans, 59 percent, said they believe money can buy happiness. And if it does, they say it costs around $1.2 million. Still,...
Sixty-three percent of Trump primary voters said there is “at least some chance” they would support a candidate other than former President Trump in the Republican presidential primary, according to a new survey from Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll shared with The Hill on Monday. The findings come roughly two months before the first Republican presidential primary...
Thanksgiving dinner is less expensive this year than last, but costs are still way up from just a few years ago, per the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF). The group found that "this year’s classic Thanksgiving feast" for 10 people will cost approximately $6.12 per guest or $61.17 total. That's a decline from the “historically...
The world is on track to reach nearly 3 degrees Celsius of warming this century, double the United Nations’s threshold, even if developed nations meet their current emissions pledges, according to a report issued Monday by the UN. In its annual Emissions Gap report, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) projected that by the end of the century,...