New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) says he will not intervene to defend the state’s system of organizing its primary ballot based on the “county line,” agreeing with a lawsuit that it is unconstitutional. Platkin said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi on Sunday that he believes the county line system...
House Republicans took a victory lap on Monday after a federal appeals court pressed pause on new rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission that would require publicly listed companies to disclose climate risks. The rules have been blasted by Republicans, who say the agency is overstepping authority, and subjected to a series of lawsuits....
The Biden-Harris re-election campaign have launched two new television ads aimed at highlighting the “disaster” Donald Trump would be for Black Americans if he is reelected president. The ads, “Back” and “Price,” feature President Biden speaking directly to Black voters in a reelection ad for the first time. “As bad as Trump was, his economy...
Two investment firms agreed to pay a combined $400,000 in penalties to settle charges that the company made false and misleading statements about their use of artificial intelligence, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Monday. Neither of the investment companies — Toronto-based Delphia and San Francisco-based Global Predictions — admitted nor denied the civil...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) invited the head of student loan servicer MOHELA to testify before the Senate in April regarding the difficulties with the return to student loan payments last fall that left borrowers with inaccurate bills and trouble getting responses on how to fix them. In a letter sent Monday, Warren announced a...
Online sales began Monday for the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the U.S. The product, Opill, can be bought online at Amazon and directly from Opill.com, said Sara Young, senior vice president and chief consumer officer at Perrigo, the pill's manufacturer. Once the drugs are in stock, Walgreens and Walmart will sell them...
We cannot continue to let law enforcement, regulators and banks that are too big to fail run roughshod over our First Amendment freedoms.
The organizers behind an award named Ruth Bader Ginsburg are canceling a ceremony honoring Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch after facing backlash from the late Supreme Court justice’s family and friends. Julie Opperman, the chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, released a statement through a spokesperson Monday explaining the decision to recognize Musk, the...
A conservative think tank on Monday sued the Biden administration in an effort to reverse approval of what would be the largest offshore wind farm of its kind. The Heartland Institute filed the suit with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a nonprofit that advocates for an economically libertarian approach to environmental action and has denied...
Niger is pulling its military cooperation deal with the United States and ordering some 1,000 American military personnel to leave the country, a startling development that comes after U.S. officials last week traveled to the capital of Niamey to “raise a number of concerns” about Niger growing closer to Russia and Iran, the Pentagon said Monday. The ruling military junta on...
Retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, is set to testify on Tuesday at a high-stakes House committee hearing on the Biden administration's 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Milley will testify at the 1 p.m. Foreign Affairs Committee hearing along with retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the former head of U.S. Central Command,...
Former President Trump on Monday raised the question of whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson will be prosecuted for her now-disputed testimony about the former president's actions towards his driver on Jan. 6, 2021. "Our great Secret Service has totally CRUSHED Cassidy Hutchinson’s (who I barely knew) made up (FAKE!) stories about me roughing...
Former President Obama dropped by No. 10 Downing Street for an "informal" meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minster Rishi Sunak on Monday, Downing Street officials confirmed to The Hill. Obama and Sunak met Monday afternoon at No. 10, where they discussed a variety of issues, including international affairs and artificial intelligence (AI), a Downing Street...
Workers at a Volkswagen manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, the UAW announced Tuesday. The move could make the Tennessee plant the first to join the UAW since the union earned pay raises and benefit increases for its members in a strike against...
The IRA adopted a market approach for the most part, relying on a series of tax credits along with easing access to capital. These incentives are something that Republicans have often supported in the past.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed Monday to send senior officials to Washington, D.C., in the coming days to discuss potential military plans in Rafah as U.S. officials warn a major operation there would be a mistake. President Biden spoke with Netanyahu over the phone on Monday for the first time in weeks amid simmering...
A group of Florida Republicans is asking President Biden to allow the Navy to conduct maritime interdictions and interceptions of migrants fleeing from Haiti amid the unfolding chaos in the country. Florida Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz, Gus Biliarakis, Anna Paulina Luna and Daniel Webster all signed the letter sent to Biden calling on him to declare an...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Monday fired back at former President Trump's recent call for her to be prosecuted over allegedly withholding evidence and testimony from the House Jan. 6 committee investigation. "Lying in all caps doesn’t make it true, Donald. You know you and your lawyers have long had the evidence," Cheney wrote...
The Supreme Court weighed the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) free speech case against a former New York regulator during oral arguments Monday. Over 75 minutes of arguments, the justices probed how to distinguish when government officials go beyond permissible advocacy and cross into unconstitutional coercion. “How do you define when it goes too far along...
Former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) said on Monday he is withdrawing his name from consideration to run on a third-party presidential ticket backed by the political organization No Labels. “After careful deliberation, I have withdrawn my name from consideration for the No Labels presidential ticket,” Duncan said in a statement, reported by The Associated...
Billionaire tech and media mogul Elon Musk says it is possible he will endorse a candidate for president before this fall's general election, but he does not anticipate giving any money to either President Biden or former President Trump. "I may, in the final stretch, endorse a candidate, but I don't know yet," Musk told former...
By officially designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, the U.S. would be enabled to take limited actions to hold individuals accountable for human rights abuses and elevate the importance of this issue in our diplomatic engagement.
President Biden is traveling this week to Nevada and Arizona, two states where the president’s reelection campaign is targeting former President Trump on voters' top issues. Campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez released a memo Monday to outline the messaging and infrastructure strategy for both states ahead of Biden’s trip on Tuesday. “Across the Southwest, Donald...
The Supreme Court seemed wary Monday of imposing harsh limits on how federal officials communicate with social media platforms about content moderation decisions. Sharply questioning both sides, the justices sought to determine when it is appropriate for the government to encourage the platforms to remove controversial content — if ever. Several justices, both liberal and...
House Oversight Committee Republicans on Monday requested further detail from Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about the Biden administration’s pause on approvals of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, the latest in several salvos against administration energy policies. In a letter to Granholm, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy,...