Former President Obama has released his annual summer music playlist for 2023. In a tweet Thursday, Obama shared his favorite songs that kept him going during his leisure time this year. In his summer playlist, which consists of 41 songs, the former president shared songs from popular current artists such as Jorja Smith’s “Try Me”;...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) Tuesday signed a $24.3 billion education budget for fiscal 2024 that her office is hailing as "historic." The new budget ensures all public school students get two free meals a day, places more priority on mental health resources and takes the first steps towards providing free pre-K for Michigan students, among other changes,...
The nonprofit founded by prominent Democratic donor George Soros plans to limit new grantmaking from October through next February, as it shifts to a new operating model under Soros’s son. The Open Society Foundations plans to focus the majority of its grantmaking around “specific opportunities for impact” under the new model, nonprofit President Mark Malloch-Brown...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story NSA, Cyber Command nominee backs Section 702 Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, President Biden's pick to lead the NSA and the U.S. Cyber Command, said on Thursday that he is in favor of renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story North Korea gives US cold shoulder on missing soldier North Korea isn't taking the United States' call regarding the American soldier who fled to the isolated country earlier this week, keeping Washington in the dark about...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden officials propose raising cost to drill on public lands Interior officials say the proposed rule would prevent tax-payers from being on the hook to clean up oil and gas wells and implement reforms from the...
President Biden saw a small bump in his economic approval rating amid the White House’s recent “Bidenomics” push, according to a new survey released Thursday. The CNBC All-America Economic Survey found that 37 percent of Americans approve of the president's handling of the economy, while 58 percent disapprove. This represents a slight improvement over April,...
Republicans' calls to impeach Biden are growing following the release of an FBI document detailing how Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly took part in an international bribery scheme.