Worker productivity gains enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) are concentrated at the lower end of the skill and income spectrum, a phenomenon that economists and labor unions warn could supercharge the practice of outsourcing jobs to lower paid regions of the globe. Several recent studies show introducing language-based AI software in the workplace benefits less-skilled...
Six months out from Election Day, a small handful of prominent Republicans have crossed party lines to support President Biden in his 2024 rematch against former President Trump. The endorsements come as most Republicans have started to coalesce around Trump. Here are notable Republicans who say they'll back Biden over Trump in November, as well...
A decade ago, a Republican committee chair investigating Washington’s biggest business advocacy organization would have been unthinkable. But times have changed. House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) has demanded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce answer questions about the more than $12 million its Chamber of Commerce Foundation received from the Tides Foundation,...
Senate Democrats are eager to see President Biden debate former President Trump, even though they were leery of the prospect just a matter of weeks ago. With Biden behind Trump in swing-state polls, Democrats want the president to put a focus on Trump's character issues and his role in derailing a bipartisan border security deal...
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge is joining the law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister as a partner. She left the Biden administration at the end of March, and before joining Biden’s Cabinet, Fudge represented Ohio in Congress and was mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio. “I greatly look forward to collaborating with my...
The 2024 presidential race took a sharp turn Wednesday when both major candidates quickly agreed to two televised debates — the first of which will happen next month. President Biden and former President Trump will take part in a CNN debate on June 27 in Atlanta. They will clash again on Sept. 10, at a...
The Biden administration is ending a key exemption that allowed solar panel imports to evade tariffs. The administration is announcing on Thursday that it's ending an exemption to import tariffs for solar panels that are double-sided, noting that since the exception was implemented, nearly all solar panel imports have been two sided. The move comes...
The vast majority of Americans recognize Bidenomics as a disaster for the nation.
The House Oversight Committee shuffled its schedule, bumping a hearing to hold Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress so some of its members could instead attend former President Trump's hush money trial. The panel was set to meet early Thursday, an hour after a twin resolution censuring Garland would likewise be considered by the House Judiciary Committee. Instead, it...
Talking about the city’s shortage of lifeguards, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said migrants could fill the openings because they are “excellent swimmers.” He later noted that his comment was based on past conversations with migrants. Adams was asked about the city’s lifeguard shortage at his weekly news conference on Tuesday. He wondered aloud, asking if...
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) praised former President Trump and President Biden's decision to debate one another but said he thinks independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should also be included. Asked by Fox News’s Bret Baier what he makes of the announcement Wednesday about the debates, which will take place in June and September, ahead...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended his decision to attend former President Trump’s hush money trial in New York earlier this week, calling the case an “atrocity.” In an interview with NBC News, Johnson said he rode in the car with the former president from Trump Tower to the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, where Trump sat...
A federal appeals court rejected a bid from a group of Maryland parents to require Montgomery County Public Schools to allow them to opt their children out of lessons that involve LGBTQ-inclusive material. A divided three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision denying a preliminary injunction on the basis that the...
The House approved a trio of bills Wednesday aimed at supporting law enforcement during National Police Week — legislation largely opposed by Democrats, as leaders on the left decried GOP attempts to downplay the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Consideration of the three bills — which face slim odds of moving in the Democratic-controlled Senate — is part of...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a Wednesday interview that she “would never recommend” President Biden share the debate stage with former President Trump, shortly after the two agreed to two debates before November's election. “I myself would never recommend going on stage with Donald Trump,” Pelosi told CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday. “But...
The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said they are launching an investigation after a small bag of cocaine was discovered inside its headquarters. Police found a “roughly one-inch by one-inch zip lock bag with a small amount of a white powdery substance, which field tested positive for cocaine.” It was found on the floor inside...
The North Carolina state Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public, even for health reasons. Republican supporters of the ban said it would help law enforcement crack down on protesters who wear masks. They say demonstrators are abusing COVID-19 pandemic-era practices to hide their identities following a wave...
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that House Republicans will release their proposed top-line number for government funding for most of 2025 later this week. Cole said Wednesday afternoon that the powerful funding committee is aiming to release the top-line number, as well as the House GOP's proposed allocations...
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a new congressional map that includes a second Black majority House district in Louisiana can be used in November after a lower court rejected that map earlier this month. The high court issued a stay on a federal judge panel’s decision two weeks ago that halted the...
Former President Trump’s Boeing 757 clipped a parked plane while taxiing at a Florida airport on Sunday morning. Trump landed in Cincinnati on Wednesday, his day off from his hush money trial, for an intimate, high-dollar fundraiser, but he arrived in Ohio without his jet nicknamed “Trump Force One.” According to an accident and incident notice from...
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he would have pardoned former President Trump if he had been in President Biden's position when federal indictments were brought against him. In an interview set to air in full Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney said Biden would have looked like the “big guy” compared to...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story HHS suspends funding to group at center of COVID lab leak The Biden administration has suspended federal grants to the infectious disease nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), the group at the center of a controversy over the origins...
NEW YORK — Prosecutors made no qualms on Wednesday painting Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) as a politically powerful but corrupt lawmaker who accepted gold bars, envelopes of cash and a luxury car in exchange for his influence, where they maintained he “put greed first.” During opening remarks in lower Manhattan at the start of Menendez’s...
Draft day excitement has subsided and Fantasy Football is months away, but Wednesday marks a big day for fans who will find out what schedule their respective teams will face in the 2024 season.
President Biden and former President Trump dealt a major blow to the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on Wednesday, calling into question the usefulness of the organization moving forward. Biden’s campaign informed the commission it would work directly with news organizations to arrange two debates this summer with Trump, who quickly accepted his rival’s proposal. ...