The New York attorney general's office has filed judgments in Westchester County, where former President Trump's golf resort and private estate known as Seven Springs is located — a first step toward seizing the asset. The judgments were filed with the Westchester County clerk's office March 6, public records show. Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw...
The White House took aim at local zoning restrictions for their role in driving rising housing costs in the president’s annual economic report Thursday. The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers argued these local rules are largely to blame for housing supply shortages, and it suggested the federal government could play a role in incentivizing...
The top-secret “Ghost Army,” which practiced deception during World War II to save tens of thousands of lives, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony on Thursday. Three of the seven surviving veterans — Bernard Bluestein, 100, John Christman, 99; and Seymour Nussenbaum, 100 — accepted the award on behalf of the 23d...
U.S. life expectancy in 2022 was 77.5 years, according to new federal data, going up by 1.1 years and marking the first time the metric has risen since 2019. From 2019 to 2021, the U.S. mortality rate fell by 2.4 years. This trend was attributed to several factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic and record overdoses...
Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced a bipartisan measure that would ban the export or sale of oil from the United States's oil reserves to China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Syria and Cuba. The measure, the Banning Oil Exports to Foreign Adversaries Act, would also prohibit the sale of oil from the country’s...
Spring has just hardly sprung, but summery weather may already be just around the corner.
Two prominent moderate Republicans narrowly avoided primary upsets from previously unknown challengers, while a third faces a May runoff to secure the GOP nomination for his seat.
A group of House Democrats is pushing the Biden administration to make improvements to CBP One, the mobile app available to migrants to secure appointments to legally enter the United States to claim asylum. In a letter led by Democratic Reps. Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.), Jesús "Chuy" García (Ill.) and Joaquín Castro (Texas), the lawmakers listed...
Former President Trump’s attorney Alina Habba responded to claims that he could be seeking foreign sources to pay his massive legal fees, but she said Wednesday she “can’t speak” about the strategy. Rumors about the future of Trump’s businesses are circulating as he attempts to pay the $454 million due in his New York civil...
MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are a “huge, huge, huge problem” for President Biden’s reelection campaign. "If you look at RFK Jr., it's the name recognition issue," Psaki said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” noting that the Kennedy name was particularly...
There was no question as to who had sparked that violence, nor who had the absolute power to end it: Donald Trump.
The flagship U.S. program to combat HIV/AIDS abroad got a one year reprieve in the spending bill, putting a temporary pause on what was an atypical partisan fight over the initiative. The one year extension for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, keeps funding flat through March 2025, but also won't impose any...
The leadership PAC for former President Trump spent about $5.6 million on legal expenses last month, adding to the millions already spent in his legal battles, according to a Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing. The filing from Save America showed a wide range of legal consulting fees that the PAC made to various entities, ranging...
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a testy exchange with The New York Times during an interview, calling the newspaper “an instrument of the Democratic Party” and accusing its journalism of propping up President Biden. In an interview with "The Run-Up," the Times’ election podcast, the independent presidential candidate offered a sharp and unfounded...
Nearly half of American prisons are located downstream from water sources that are likely contaminated with cancer-linked "forever chemicals," a new study has found. Due to insufficient water quality testing in and around such sites, officials have only found that 5 percent of U.S. carceral institutions are situated in watersheds that definitively contain these toxic...
Congressional leaders unveiled their $1.2 trillion, 1,012-page government funding package in the early hours of Thursday. Now, they're racing to try to pass the six-bill measure — which covers the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and State; the IRS; and general government and foreign operations — by a Friday night shutdown deadline....
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill Wednesday that bans homeless people from camping in the state’s public spaces. “Florida will not allow homeless encampments to intrude on its citizens or undermine their quality of life like we see in states like New York and California,” DeSantis said in a statement. “The legislation I...
Jimmy Kimmel went after former President Trump on his show Wednesday night, mocking Trump over his legal challenges and money problems. “The great white supremacist has until Monday to come up with a $464 million bond, or the state may seize and sell his property,” Kimmel said on his late-night show, referring to the crunch...
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a Trump-aligned rising conservative star, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a leading liberal advocate of fighting climate change, have teamed up to form the Senate’s newest odd couple by joining forces to eliminate tax breaks for corporate consolidation. Vance and Whitehouse on Thursday unveiled the Stop Subsidizing Mergers Act, which would...
The FCC has waded unnecessarily into the cultural chaos of this era with a bureaucratic order that is merely a proposed “solution” in search of a problem.
A Boston hospital announced Thursday that its doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human patient — marking the first time such a feat has been accomplished. If the procedure is ultimately successful, it could open the door to thousands of patients with kidney failure who are waiting for an organ transplant. The...
Former President Trump is lagging far behind President Biden in fundraising, potentially putting him at a significant disadvantage as the general election race kicks into gear. Trump saw an uptick in his February fundraising compared to January, but his monthly haul, as well as his cash on hand entering March, was dwarfed by the Biden...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that he would extend an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, after indicating Wednesday that he was considering the move. “I would love to have him come and address a joint session of Congress. We'll certainly extend that invitation,” Johnson said in an interview on...
Linking some offshore wind power projects through offshore transmission networks would lower electricity costs and reduce fossil fuel reliance, according to Energy Department findings first shared with The Hill. The study results also indicate this method would increase overall grid reliability, an Energy Department official told The Hill. Researchers also found financial benefits from offshore...
As long as private equity remains a significant player in U.S. health care, Americans should have the right to know which hospitals, hospices and other providers are owned by private equity.