The federal government's free at-home COVID-19 test program will be suspended beginning on Friday in response to a drop in respiratory diseases. The Biden administration brought back the free test program last year ahead of the respiratory viral season. By going to COVIDtests.gov, households could order a free pack of four at-home COVID-19 tests. This...
A federal judge on Monday rejected Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) claims that the search warrants executed on his home were unconstitutional. Judge Sidney H. Stein on Monday ruled that the search warrants used to investigate Menendez’s emails and search his home in 2022 were not unconstitutional, according to court filings. Menendez’s lawyers had previously argued...
Students at a west Texas university are asking the Supreme Court to take emergency action to allow them to hold a charity drag performance at their school later this month, claiming that an order barring drag events on campus violates their constitutional rights. West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler last year canceled a charity drag...
Top Senate Republicans are slated to attend a fundraiser for Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake on Wednesday as the party looks to coalesce around her ahead of November. Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, will be in attendance at the D.C. fundraiser, along with other top Republicans, including Sens. John...
An environmental advocacy non-profit has introduced a variation on the “Bechdel test,” a measure of women’s interactions in film, for climate change. The two-part test, created by the advocacy group Good Energy, applies the question of whether a movie acknowledges the existence of climate change and whether at least one character knows it. “The Climate Reality Check...
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) on Monday said he is running to succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as Republican leader, further crystallizing the field vying for the job. Thune made the news official to a pair of South Dakota media outlets, saying that he would like to lead a “reset” of how...
A new satellite designed to track global methane pollution is set to launch from California on Monday, taking the next step toward a goal of increasing accountability for some of the world’s largest polluters and reducing greenhouse gas emissions overall. The satellite, MethaneSAT, was developed by a subsidiary of the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)...
President Biden’s reelection campaign on Monday dismissed the Supreme Court ruling that Colorado cannot disqualify former President Trump from the ballot, arguing that the efforts to keep him off the ballot weren’t part of its strategy to defeat him. “We don’t really care,” Quentin Fulks, principal deputy campaign manager said when asked about the ruling. ...
The Senate will vote this week on a standalone measure to expand and reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) after amendments to expand it failed to pass, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told reporters on a call Monday afternoon. The bill will come up for a vote by Friday under the terms of a unanimous...
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the conservative political action committee backed by Charles Koch, launched an eight-figure ad campaign Monday attacking President Biden over his economic policy. The campaign hits the president over “Bidenomics,” arguing the president's policies have led to high prices and a bad ecnonomy. “President Biden will try to paint a rosy picture...
I have great faith in our democratic process and the will of the American people at the ballot box, but the emerging threat of technological misinformation campaigns consistently used by our adversaries seeks to interfere with that will.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) called out companies for “shrinkflation” Monday after Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster expressed frustration with the practice in a social media post. “Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller,” Cookie Monster said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Brown, who serves as the chair of the...
A group of passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight that was grounded after a midair door blowout in January have filed a lawsuit against Boeing and the airline, accusing the companies of negligence as Boeing investigates manufacturing defects in its 737 Max 9 aircraft. The suit, filed Feb. 20 in Oregon, adds to legal trouble...
First lady Dr. Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken recognized women who have shown exceptional courage and leadership across the globe during a ceremony at the White House on Monday.
Members of the San Francisco Giants will be required to stand on the field during the national anthem at this season’s games, manager Bob Melvin says.
It’s high time for the State Department to designate each and every perpetrator of the Oct. 7 massacre as a foreign terrorist ogranization.
Trader Joe’s issued a recall notice on Saturday to customers who purchased its steamed chicken soup dumplings, warning the product could contain hard plastic from a permanent marker pen. The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said that about 61,839 pounds of dumplings are being recalled out of fear they may be...
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin called it “remarkable” that voters have greater concern about President Biden’s age than former President Trump, arguing he is “not as sharp” as he was in 2016. Asked by CNN’s John Berman on Monday how much Trump “missed” or mixed up facts when she worked in his...
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT Happy average Monday before Super Tuesday. Though, it’s not a particularly quiet day in politics. Here’s what’s happening: The Supreme Court handed former President Trump a huge win this morning, putting him back on the Colorado ballot. The court didn’t weigh in on whether Trump was involved in an insurrection, but it...
Climate envoy John Kerry will be leaving his Biden administration role this week. Wednesday will be his last day as the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. The spokesperson declined to provide additional information on Kerry’s next steps. Kerry said in January that he would be “shifting” to work on...
The Minneapolis branch of the NAACP and advocacy group Children’s Rights have filed a lawsuit alleging the state of Minnesota and its child protection agencies and officials have discriminated on the basis of race against Black families in Minnesota, particularly in Hennepin and Ramsey counties. The lawsuit argues the discrimination is evident in the “historic, pervasive, and ongoing...
Today’s State of the Union addresses are as much about substance as showmanship.
Former President Trump took a swipe at talk show host Bill Maher, who made jokes about his trip to the border last week, calling the comic and liberal commentator the “worst,” with “bad ratings.” “Bill Maher is the worst! He never got it, and never will. Bad ratings, a big fail on CNN shot, major...
All of the manufacturers whose drugs were chosen for the federal government's Medicare price negotiation program have sent back counteroffers for what they consider to be a maximum fair price, the White House said Monday. President Biden confirmed in a statement Monday that all companies are continuing to engage in the negotiation process, despite the...
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled Colorado cannot disqualify former President Trump from the state's ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban. The historic decision preserves the ability of the Republican front-runner to seek a second presidential term. The justices' decision on the eve of Super Tuesday effectively ends the long-shot efforts aimed at preventing...