Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia next week to meet with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin announced on Friday, according to Russian state media. The March 20-22 visit, Xi’s first trip to Russia in nearly four years, comes amid Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and Beijing’s efforts to present itself as a neutral arbiter...
In 2008, as the U.S. financial sector melted down, Beijing saw opportunity. “The financial crisis was a rare opportunity for Chinese enterprises lacking resources and advanced technology to go abroad and acquire foreign companies at low cost,” wrote Chinese researchers at Beihua University in a government-funded report, published in 2010. In a more acute example,...
If you were to ask someone what student loans are for without offering any context, you’d likely get some variation of “to pay for college, because many kids can’t afford it otherwise.” Such replies reflect an unexamined, embedded assumption that loans to finance higher education — and the pursuit of a degree itself — are...
Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. In the global banking world, a week that began with high anxiety is ending in both relief and trepidation. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assured lawmakers during testimony on Thursday...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has created a schism in the charter school movement with its application for the nation's first openly religious charter school. Activists and policy experts supportive of charter schools in general are divided over the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School application currently under consideration by the Oklahoma charter...
Former President Donald Trump is leading Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by a scant, 3-point margin in their home state, according to a New Emerson College Florida poll, the latest sign that the 2024 Republican presidential contest is turning into a two-way race. In a hypothetical nine-way Republican primary, Trump comes out as the top vote-getter,...
Republicans are seeking to flip the script on Social Security as they dial up the pressure on President Biden. Democrats for months have been on offense on Social Security, accusing Republicans repeatedly and publicly of wanting to make cuts to the entitlement program. But now some in the GOP are hitting back and trying to...
Democrats in Republican-leaning Louisiana are trying to buck expectations for a third consecutive cycle in this year’s open gubernatorial race as term-limited Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) prepares to leave office. A divided Republican field is raising Democrats’ hopes of clearing the all-party primary on Oct. 14 and making it to the November general election....
A Nevada Senate majority leader introduced a state constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights Thursday. The proposal would offer the highest level of state protection.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham enacted a new abortion-rights law Thursday. The state would be able to override local ordinances that want to limit abortion access.