Former Obama speechwriter and “Pod Save America” co-host Jon Lovett will be a cast member on the next season of the CBS reality show “Survivor,” CBS confirmed to The Hill Thursday. “I have no outdoor skills,” Lovett says in a trailer for the next season of the popular reality show that aired Wednesday night, according...
Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said a hard landing is still possible for the United States economy. In an interview at the JPMorgan Global China Summit in Shanghai, Dimon was asked by CNBC’s Sri Jegarajah about the possibility of an economic hard landing and said “of course” the U.S. could see one,...
An Arizona state lawmaker said artificial intelligence (AI) system ChatGPT helped draft a new deepfake legislation that was signed into law this week. Republican state Rep. Alex Kolodin said he used ChatGPT to write a subsection of House Bill 2394, which tackles AI-related impersonations of people by allowing Arizona residents to legally assert they are...
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) reintroduced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on Thursday, a bill that would create federal police reform. Speaking to a crowd that included family members of those affected by police violence, Jackson Lee called the legislation “critical.” “Far too many lives have been lost or forever changed due to...
President Biden bashed Republicans for blocking the border security legislation in the Senate Thursday, arguing that the GOP doesn’t care about securing the U.S.'s southern border. “Congressional Republicans do not care about securing the border or fixing America’s broken immigration system. If they did, they would have voted for the toughest border enforcement in history....
Make no mistake, the Bidenomics endless climate driven regulations are making our energy, transportation, housing and food more expensive.
Hundreds of graduates at Harvard University walked out of their commencement Thursday after the school announced 13 students who participated in the recent pro-Palestinian protests on campus would not be allowed to receive their diplomas with fellow students. Groups of graduates walked out chanting “Free, Free Palestine” and “Let them walk, let them walk” in...
Long COVID research advocates slammed the Biden administration over “minimal funding” for long COVID in its budget request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fiscal year 2025. “The Long COVID Campaign, in partnership with Long COVID Moonshot and Patient Led Research Collaborative, has called on Congressional leaders to appropriate at least $1.2 Billion...
Attorney General Merrick Garland said former President Trump’s false claim about the FBI being ready to kill him in their Mar-a-Lago search is “extremely dangerous” in recent comments. Trump falsely claimed in a fundraising email Wednesday that President Biden was “locked & loaded and ready to take me out,” another attack about the classified records...
Protest and dissent is a tool in the hands of the people who wield it.
Scott Scheffler, the world’s top golfer, faces four charges, including second-degree assault of a police officer.
Possession of abortion pills without a prescription could soon be illegal in Louisiana after Republicans in the state Legislature passed a first-of-its-kind bill that designates the pills as dangerous controlled substances. The state Senate passed the bill by a 29 to 7 vote Thursday, days after it passed the state House. It now heads to...
Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee went on the offensive during a Thursday hearing on college antisemitism that largely focused on deals Northwestern and Rutgers universities made with pro-Palestinian protesters to get their encampments taken down without police force. “I want to discuss what has been referred to as the Deering Meadows...
The Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina System voted to replace its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies among 17 public universities across the state. The Thursday decision works to “ensure equality of all persons & viewpoints” and replaces a 2019 policy that emphasized inclusivity and required diversity reports from each school's...
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday that companies that train their artificial intelligence (A) models on data from news websites, artists’ creations or people’s personal information could be in violation of antitrust laws. At the Wall Street Journal’s “Future of Everything Festival,” Khan said the FTC is examining ways in which major...
The Biden administration, 29 states and the District of Columbia are taking on the powerful company responsible for booking and selling tickets to major concerts. In a sweeping lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 30 state and district attorneys general accused Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster of monopolizing the live entertainment...
An obscure Revolutionary War-era flag emblazoned with a pine tree has drawn renewed attention amid reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew the "Appeal to Heaven" flag above his New Jersey beach house in the past year. The "Appeal to Heaven" flag, also known as the "Pine Tree Flag," features a rudimentary evergreen tree...
The House passed a bill Thursday barring the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) unless it has explicit authorization from Congress. The CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act passed the chamber by a 216-192 vote, almost entirely along partisan lines. The move is largely symbolic, as the Fed has not put forward plans...
President Biden on Thursday said that a Kenyan-led multinational police force can succeed in overcoming armed gangs that have run amok across Haiti and captured the capital Port-au-Prince. When asked during a press conference with Kenyan President William Ruto at the White House if they can "break the backs" of the armed gangs, Biden responded...
The House approved a bill Thursday that seeks to ban non-U.S.citizens from voting in local Washington, D.C., elections, once again taking aim at the capital city through legislation. The four-page measure, which passed 262-143, would forbid any noncitizens from voting in elections for municipal office or on ballot initiatives and referendums. Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in...
A new study has found that patients vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus were less likely to experience symptoms of post-COVID condition, or long COVID. Researchers evaluated the link between vaccinations and long COVID symptoms by examining individuals across eight large health care systems in the United States. The study, published Wednesday in Nature Communications, used...
President Biden and former President Trump are tied in a new survey testing the two White House hopefuls in a head-to-head match-up. The Marquette Law School poll found Biden and Trump with 50 percent support each among registered voters surveyed ahead of their expected November rematch. When three third-party candidates — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says he relates to former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who said this week she’ll vote for former President Trump over President Biden in November. "I understand that journey, I was in that position," Cruz said during an appearance Wednesday evening on CNN. "Now, she didn't win any states, but she was the last person...
Diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, commonly known as ADHD, are becoming an “expanding public health concern,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers said in a new study. Approximately 1 in 9 U.S. children, about 7 million, were diagnosed with ADHD in 2022, according to the study, published Wednesday. That marked about 1 million more...
Here’s a look some of those who have, and have not, attended Trump's hush money trial.