Several major labor unions have criticized the mass arrests of students and faculty at pro-Palestinian campus protests across the country, following their own calls for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. The unions’ support for pro-Palestinian protesters, as well as their calls for cease-fire, draws on a long history of antiwar activism in the labor...
Voters across the country are set to weigh in this fall on a host of key issues, from abortion to primary systems, through ballot measures. Ballot measures have become a bigger election factor in recent years, especially as advocates work to push forward state-level abortion protections after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in...
As the nation’s $34 trillion-plus debt remains top of mind for some on Capitol Hill, polling has shown Americans have also grown more concerned about the country’s balance sheet. Although Washington is deeply divided over how to tackle the nation’s deficits, there has been some momentum among House Republicans for a special commission to explore...
College commencement season is off to a rough start. After a weekend full of student protests, Columbia University, the face of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations, canceled its main graduation ceremony, becoming the second major school to do so this year. Shira Goodman, regional director in Philadelphia for the Anti-Defamation League, said colleges' weak responses to the...
Emma Vaughn is joining BGR Public Relations as a vice president. She most recently served as deputy communications director for the Republican National Committee (RNC) and is a Trump Victory alum. Catherine “Cat” Hill has joined Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) as deputy vice president of public affairs. Cat was previously a spokesperson...
President Biden will travel to Wisconsin on Wednesday, where he will seek to draw a contrast between a major investment in the state from Microsoft and the Foxconn investment in the area that never materialized during the Trump administration. Biden will head to Racine to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build a...
President Biden’s reelection campaign dropped a new ad that bashes former President Trump for his threats to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The 30-second ad, entitled “Terminate,” touts that Biden has protected the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and worked to expand it. The ad will air on television and digital across battleground...
Salvage crews are preparing to use explosives to separate the Dali container ship and the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore more than a month after it collapsed. The precision explosive charges will be used to free the parts of the bridge that are stuck on top of containers on the ship, Unified Command Petty Officer Ronald...
Rudy Giuliani is having a hard time finding someone to help with the accounting duties in his bankruptcy case and may have to do it on his own, lawyers said in a filing Tuesday. According to the filing, Giuliani had an accountant helping him meet the accounting obligations in the case, but “he had a change...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent a letter to the families of victims of two fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes, looking to meet with them as it decides if the company violated a deal that allowed it to get out of criminal prosecution over the crashes. The letter, obtained and reported by ABC News,...
{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story As Israel chokes off Rafah, US scrambles to salvage cease-fire talks The White House on Tuesday pushed to finalize a cease-fire agreement that would pause fighting in Gaza, even as Israel carried out a...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Tuesday doubled down on his support for Israel shortly after the nation's forces seized control of Gaza's Rafah border crossing, where more than 1 million civilians are being housed amid the ongoing war. Asked on Fox News if he supports Israel going into Rafah, Fetterman said, "Well, I follow Israel...
Columbia Law Dean Gillian Lester backed the school's graduates Tuesday after a group of conservative judges said they wouldn’t hire them following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests on the campus. Lester said in a statement that Columbia Law graduates are “consistently sought out by leading employers in the private and public sectors, including the judiciary,” Reuters...
The Senate’s push to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is coming down to the wire this week as they struggle to strike a time agreement and try to avoid a lapse of the program ahead of Friday’s deadline. Top senators said that while progress had been made toward extending the FAA’s authority for five...
Israel’s push into Rafah and takeover of a key border crossing Tuesday has ignited international debate and condemnation as roughly 1.4 million sheltering civilians in the southern Gaza city were caught in the crosshairs of potential invasion. Israel late Monday began “targeted strikes” in eastern Rafah before seizing control of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing,...
The U.S. repatriated 11 Americans, six Canadians, four Dutch citizens and one Finnish citizen from northeast Syria on Tuesday, according to a statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “In conducting this complex repatriation and resettlement the Department coordinated closely with our interagency partners,” Blinken said in the Tuesday statement. “I would like to thank...
Sen. Mike Braun has come out on top of a crowded GOP primary in Indiana’s gubernatorial race, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Braun, a freshman senator, beat out five other Republican hopefuls, including Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and former state Attorney General Curtis Hill. Emerson College Polling/The Hill polling from March found...
Former President Trump was projected to win Indiana’s Republican primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. The win could give Trump, already the presumptive GOP nominee, another 58 delegates, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill, in a state he’s forecast to clinch this fall. Trump was the only active candidate on Indiana’s GOP ballot, but he was still up...
President Biden was projected to win Indiana’s Democratic primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. The Hoosier State added 79 delegates into Biden’s column, pushing him further past the mark he needed to become the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill. The incumbent was the only choice on Indiana’s Democratic primary ballot — a setup that...
Presented by AstraZeneca — 'The right to interstate travel is one of our most fundamental constitutional rights' {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Federal judge: Alabama can’t stop abortion fund lawsuit A federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit against Alabama’s GOP attorney general for suggesting he would prosecute those who...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story U.S. financial system enables environmental crime Aspects of the U.S. financial system appear to help environmental criminals conceal their profits. © AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky U.S. anti-money-laundering infrastructure has weaknesses that enable this kind of activity, said...
Salvage teams recovered the sixth and last missing body of a construction worker killed in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, local officials announced Tuesday. The body of José Mynor López, 37, was found by salvage divers at the scene of the bridge collapse on Tuesday, more than one month since...
An investigation by a law firm confirmed that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. failed to provide a workplace safe from sexual harassment, discrimination, fear of retaliation, and called for a “necessary” cultural and structural change at the federal banking regulator. The review, conducted by the Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, sharply criticized the toxic work...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} View Online Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Probe exposes toxic workplace at bank regulator FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg has apologized to staff in wake of findings that sexual misconduct, lewd behavior and retaliatory administrative practices were rampant at the federal banking regulator....
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story TikTok takes U.S. to court over divest-or-ban bill TikTok sued to block the law that would force the application to be divested from its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, or be banned from the U.S. © AP Photo In a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the U.S....