The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be adding over 100 staff members to its National Weather Service workforce after conducting layoffs in February. This follows NOAA’s effort to reduce its workforce by approximately 10% through an early retirement option and by not renewing contracts with probationary workers. An NWS spokesperson confirmed to the Hill […]
Federal immigration authorities plan to crack down on illegal immigrants who legally entered the United States but failed to leave when their documents expired, a move that comes in the aftermath of the terrorist attack by an Egyptian visa overstayer in Boulder, Colorado. Todd Lyons, acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, revealed in […]
President Donald Trump caught allies by surprise when he announced his decision over the weekend to withdraw billionaire commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as his nominee for the next NASA administrator. The Senate had been scheduled to vote on Isaacman’s confirmation this week, following a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has not even announced her candidacy to become California‘s next governor, but her possible campaign has already hit snags. Despite polling finding that she is the front-runner in the crowded field of declared and undeclared candidates before the primary in a year’s time, Democrats are growing increasingly apprehensive about a […]
Leonard Leo, the architect of President Donald Trump’s first-term legal legacy, is now at the center of a growing backlash from within Trump World — including from the president himself. The attacks from Trump and his allies on Leo and the Federalist Society reflect rifts between the populist Right and the conservative legal establishment. They […]
The end of Elon Musk’s time at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency is the latest chapter in a long story: Republicans are better at cutting taxes than cutting spending. This was true long before Musk or President Donald Trump. It’s a fact that complicates the path forward for the Republican reconciliation bill […]
Residents of Puerto Rico who claim they are “nonbinary” will now be permitted to have an identifier on their birth certificates. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico ruled on May 30 that “nonbinary” people have a right to differentiate themselves from “binary” people and could now choose “X” for their gender on their birth certificates. […]
EXCLUSIVE — An official involved in the Obama-era Internal Revenue Service scandal, which involved IRS officials singling out conservative groups for increased scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, is now the acting director of the agency’s ethics watchdog department. Elizabeth Kastenberg, the new acting director of the IRS’s Office of Professional Responsibility, was directly […]
A clash over the reconciliation bill’s effect on the federal debt imperils efforts to pass the sweeping Republican tax and spending bill in the Senate. The reconciliation legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, would extend much of the tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, add new tax cuts, and increase spending […]
A sharp increase in violent antisemitic incidents across the country has stoked fear, grief, and anger within the American Jewish community, leading many to question whether leaders are responding with the urgency the moment demands. In Colorado, a man set fire to a crowd with a makeshift flamethrower during a march in support of Israeli […]
