The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is slated to hold a hearing Wednesday on fighting workplace antisemitism at universities. The event is scheduled to begin at 10:15 a.m. EDT. Watch the video above.
As many municipal landfills belch out gas from decomposing organic matter, they are also releasing toxic "forever chemicals" into the air, a new study has found. Scientists measured unexpectedly high levels of airborne per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at three dumps
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will lay out his foreign policy agenda in a speech at a leading conservative think-tank in Washington D.C. on July 8, one day before the start of the NATO summit hosted by President Biden. Johnson will deliver remarks at the Hudson Institute,
The Wall Street Journal editorial board on Wednesday deemed North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) the best option to serve as former President Trump's running mate of those being considered for the role. The Rupert Murdoch-owned Journal described Trump's vice presidential selection
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected challenges to Biden administration officials’ communications with social media companies aimed at combating misinformation online. The 6-3 decision does not address the First Amendment issues at the center of the cases and instead denies
NATO has appointed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the next head of the western security alliance, bringing a change in leadership for the first time in a decade. Ambassadors representing the 32 alliance members agreed to select Rutte as the replacement for NATO
Many states are failing to track how often children in foster care facilities are abused, the Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General said in a report. The report, published Wednesday, assessed how states monitor if children are being mistreated in residential
South Carolina state Sen. Katrina Shealy was defeated by fellow Republican Carlisle Kennedy in a runoff election Tuesday, becoming the third Republican woman who filibustered against South Carolina's abortion ban two years ago to lose a primary. Shealy is the last of the
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who is rumored to be on former President Trump’s vice presidential shortlist, said there would be a “little bit of disappointment” if he’s not chosen as a running mate. Vance and his wife, Usha, joined Lawrence Jones on Fox News Channel’s "FOX & Friends"
More than 260 million Americans suffered last week under an unprecedented early summer “heat dome,” yet the issue of climate change has been ignored in our presidential debates.
Restaurants and bars across the nation’s capital are preparing to host watch parties for the most highly anticipated political event so far this year: the first debate between President Biden and former President Trump. The Thursday debate, set to air on CNN, represents a
The House Ways and Means Committee is slated to hold a hearing Wednesday on strengthening child welfare and protecting children. Paris Hilton and other advocates are set to testify before the panel about modernizing child welfare programs. The hearing is scheduled to begin at
House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican leaders held a secret vote late Tuesday night, in a last-ditch effort to save Steve Bannon from having to report to jail. High-ranking members of the House GOP voted to reject the previous Congress’s formal position on the January
Voters in key states who will likely decide the election trust former President Trump more than President Biden to handle threats to democracy, according to a survey released Wednesday. The poll, conducted by The Washington Post/Schar School, surveyed voters across six swing
Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for a "catch and kill" scheme to suppress embarrassing stories during the 2016 campaign, while the wealthy are rarely held accountable for financial crimes, and the poor are over-prosecuted for
The latest season of a series that combines dining and democracy — and showcases lawmakers chowing down on some of their favorite foods — is aiming to show that even in fractured times, bipartisanship can taste delicious. "Breaking Bread," which premieres its second season on
Democratic strategist James Carville said Steve Bannon, who is set to report to prison next week, should be given a private cell, because any inmate could make an argument that rooming with Bannon is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment. Carville joined
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has returned to Australia after pleading guilty to obtaining and sharing classified documents about the U.S. military. He pleaded guilty for conspiring with Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. intelligence analyst, to obtain and disclose the
CNN has been given the opportunity to host the first joint appearance between Joe Biden and Donald Trump of the 2024 presidential election, and it is up to the network to measure up to this unexpected and perhaps undeserved windfall.
Most U.S. adults say they plan to watch some form of media about Thursday’s presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump, a new survey found. The poll, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and released Wednesday,
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that border encounters with migrants are down 40 percent three weeks after President Biden’s order halting asylum processing. The Border Patrol’s seven-day encounter average is down to under 2,400 encounters per day, which is 40
Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) endorsed President Biden’s reelection bid Wednesday, a day before the first presidential debate against former President Trump. In a video released Wednesday, Kinzinger said he’s a “proud conservative” but bashed Trump as a threat to
Former President Donald Trump must strategically win the debate against Joe Biden without landing a devastating knockout blow, as the Democratic Party still has time to work on Biden if he falls, while Biden must back up his arrogance with facts and avoid being mocked by Trump.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that no one expects President Biden to be "on cocaine" during the debate later this week, despite President Trump and his allies suggesting otherwise. Johnson joined CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss how at a recent rally, Trump told his
I do think it would be helpful to know whether or not either of the men seeking the highest office in the land feels like he needs medication to get through a presidential debate.
In Tuesday’s primaries, one of the most progressive House incumbents lost in New York, one of the country’s most conservative House incumbents won by switching districts in Colorado and a moderate Republican trounced the rest of Utah’s Senate primary field, including a
Few filmmakers can rival Catherine Breillat’s origin story; by all accounts, the director who would later refer to herself as “the pariah of French cinema” emerged fully formed from her homeland’s subconscious. If she didn’t exist, the French cinema—or at least the wing
Nearly seven years after Donald Trump infamously stated that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, internet fact-checkers at Snopes.com have published a piece declaring it “false” that Trump was referring
For years we’ve been hearing that when President Donald Trump cut corporate taxes in 2017, corporations pissed away their tax savings on stock buybacks. Trump himself, in one of his rare episodes of truthfulness, admitted it. But that turns out not to be quite right. According
The presidential debate Thursday will set out clear differences over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, with President Biden’s pitch for unity among traditional allies expected to contrast with former President Trump’s tough talk and transactional foreign policy. And while Ukraine
A Supreme Court ruling on former President Trump’s claims of immunity from criminal prosecution is looming over his debate this week with President Biden. The question of whether Trump is immune from prosecution for certain acts while president could upend his criminal trials,
Last year, Texas’s state legislature passed a measure known not so affectionately by opponents as the “ Death Star ” bill. The Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, House Bill 2127, preempts cities and counties from passing measures that are stronger than those passed at the state
The Supreme Court passed the ball back to Congress on the question of a wealth tax in its decision on Moore v. U.S. last week, a case that implicated trillions of dollars in government revenue and vast swaths of federal law and precedent. The decision carefully avoided the most
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has hired Larissa Knapp as executive vice president and chief content protection officer. Knapp joins the MPA after 27 years at the Federal Bureau of Investigations, where she recently led the national security branch as the bureau's
In keeping with the time-honored principles of journalistic overkill, the only entities that have not yet weighed in with their debate previews are two laggard preschools in Wichita, Kansas, and isolated pockets of Ukrainian soldiers in heavy combat with the Russians in the
Senate Republicans hoping to win full control of Congress and the White House are crafting an ambitious legislative package that would go far beyond extending former President Trump's tax cuts. The legislation, being cobbled together for budget reconciliation rules that would
The civil war within the Senate GOP conference is getting heated as conservatives step up calls to curb the power of the next Senate Republican leader, while current Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) mainstream and moderate allies warn the changes could make the upper
The surgeon general’s call for warning labels on social media platforms has largely been met with ambivalence as experts tout the idea as a step in the right direction but question the effectiveness of labels without more concrete action. In an op-ed in The New York Times last