A federal appeals court has dismissed a child labor case against major tech companies like Apple and Google. The ruling, released Tuesday, ruled in favor of the tech companies, Google parent company Alphabet, Apple, Dell Technologies, Microsoft and Tesla, and rejected an appeal by former child miners. The former child miners argued that the major...
An arrest warrant has been issued, naming former GOP Congressional candidate Dan Rodimer as the suspect in a homicide. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced Wednesday that Rodimer, 45, has been identified as the suspect in a suspicious death that is now being investigated as a homicide that occurred on Oct. 29, 2023, on the...
The Florida State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would prohibit local agencies from implementing heat protections for workers. The GOP-controlled Senate voted 28-11 to pass the bill, which would ban cities and counties from adopting mandatory water breaks and other extreme heat relief measures that go beyond what is required by state or federal...
A group of at least nine Democratic lawmakers wore blue attire at the Capitol on Wednesday to express solidarity with the Israeli hostages still being held by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. “I wore blue today with my colleagues to stand in solidarity with the Israeli hostages because enough is enough,” Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) wrote...
New York executive Bruce Blakeman filed a lawsuit to block state Attorney General Letitia James from stopping his order that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in events at county-run facilities. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York, is on behalf of Nassau County and local residents: a 16-year-old female volleyball...
A federal judge in Texas has ordered a U.S. agency that serves minority-owned businesses to serve regardless of race. The ruling sided with white business owners who claimed the program discriminated against them. Judge Mark T. Pittman of the Northern District of Texas, who was appointed by former President Trump, argued that the Minority Business...
Former President Trump has a choice to make after Nikki Haley’s exit from the primary race: Try to win over the former South Carolina governor’s supporters or just ignore them? Trump won all but two primary contests before Haley dropped out, a sign of his dominance within the party. But exit polls found significant percentages...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), joined by a bipartisan group of lawmakers from Florida, asked the Biden administration on Wednesday for at least $725 million to be included in his fiscal 2025 budget. The money would help fund the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration (SFER), a program aimed at restoring the state's Everglades and reestablishing natural water...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging GOP lawmakers to maintain decorum when President Biden delivers his State of the Union address Thursday night, after Republicans had a number of outbursts during last year’s speech. Johnson made the request during a closed-door GOP conference meeting Wednesday morning, three Republican lawmakers who attended the gathering told The...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story State of the Union to call for more action on health care costs President Biden will focus on health costs during Thursday night’s State of the Union address, as he plans to call on Congress to double down...
Two House Democrats cast votes against the six-bill spending package the chamber passed Wednesday to avert a partial government shutdown, with both citing a GOP-backed gun-related provision. Reps. Maxwell Frost (Fla.) and Mark Takano (Calif.) voted against the “minibus” legislation Wednesday that funds a slew of agencies and departments through the end of fiscal 2024....
Progressive media personality Cenk Uygur told The Hill on Wednesday that he is ending his long-shot Democratic presidential bid. “The Young Turks” host, who was born in Turkey and is therefore not eligible to become president due to the Constitution’s “Natural Born Citizen” clause, had attempted to launch a legal battle to gain ballot access...
Two House lawmakers on Wednesday expressed uncertainty on when pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms would pass, despite widespread bipartisan support for some sort of action on the health care middlemen. Reps. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) and James Comer (R-Ky.) spoke with The Hill's Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack on Wednesday as part of the "Prescribing PBM Reform" event...
President Biden's reelection campaign is teeing up a multi-pronged attack strategy to portray former President Trump as harboring disdain against Latinos. Ahead of the president’s Thursday evening State of the Union address, the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign shared with The Hill an outline of its Hispanic-facing pitch against Trump, emphasizing economic and health care issues with...
Yet another streaming service seems poised to crack down on account sharing.
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story How Nvidia became a powerhouse chipmaker Nvidia has surged to new highs on the stock market in recent weeks, fueled by optimism about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). © AP Photo/Manu Fernandez The chipmaker — a leading manufacturer of the graphic processing...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story House passes $450b-plus funding package The House finally passed its first batch of funding legislation just days ahead of a shutdown deadline. © Greg Nash The 1,050-page package calls for more than $450 billion in funding for...
President Biden’s reelection campaign argued in a new memo on Wednesday that former President Trump is driving away Republican Nikki Haley voters, building on the president’s plea that there is a place in his campaign for her supporters. First shared exclusively with The Hill, the memo from Biden communications director Michael Tyler said that “Trump...
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) filed a complaint with the Department of Justice inspector general on Wednesday, accusing special counsel Jack Smith of election interference by resisting attempts to delay his criminal prosecution of former President Trump. Smith has pushed federal judges not to delay his case against Trump, which alleges that the former president attempted...
The Colorado River’s Lower Basin states published a proposal Wednesday for the watershed's long-term operations, just hours after their Upper Basin peers unveiled a rival offer — and as talks between the two key contingents founder ahead of a looming federal deadline. The vying proposals pertain to the forthcoming update of the Colorado River’s 2007...
It has been a quarter century since Open World first invested in the nascent leaders of tomorrow. Our alumni are charting their own courses in today 25 countries around our world in various stages of progress through their life paths, and no doubt there are other Alexei Navalnys among them.
Families of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip joined a group of bipartisan House lawmakers to call for their release Wednesday, one day before President Biden is set to deliver the State of the Union address. Orna Neutra, the mother of American hostage Omer Neutra, pleaded for the release of her son, whom...
Congress failed 14 times to adopt a budget blueprint to guide spending and revenue decisions.
The Washington, D.C. City Council voted for the second time Tuesday to approve a massive anti-crime bill. The legislation, Secure D.C. Omnibus Amendment Act, was passed nearly unanimously and represents the council’s most significant action to the city’s historic crime surge in 2023. The council passed the first vote of the bill in early February,...