{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Dem analysis: OBBA created billions in fossil subsidies Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats. © Greg Nash An analysis that was first shared…
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday touted his “productive” meeting with President Trump at the White House, during which the mayor said they discussed the prospect of building more housing in their shared hometown. “I had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon,” Mamdani wrote in a post on the social platform…
Warner Bros. Discovery, the sprawling entertainment company that owns major media brands like HBO and CNN, said Thursday it now favors a bid made by Paramount to buy the company’s key assets over a previous agreement with streamer Netflix. The company’s board, “following consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors,” said it had found…
U.S. power plant pollution rose last year, according to a green group’s analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. Emissions of sulfur dioxide increased by 18 percent in 2025, according to an analysis of the EPA data by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group. The group found that plants’ nitrogen oxide emissions increased…
Columbia University student Ellie Aghayeva was released by immigration enforcement Thursday afternoon after she was detained at a school residential building early in the morning. Aghayeva said in an Instagram post she is on her way home and in “complete shock” over the incident. The Hill has reached out to Columbia and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment. Columbia…
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said the ongoing shutdown of her department is affecting preparations for the 2026 World Cup and the celebration of 250 years of the United States. In a post Thursday on social platform X, Noem said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “was in the final stages of…
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing backlash after amplifying a post made by far-right figure Stew Peters. “War with Iran is the only thing republicans and democrats have both given a standing ovation for. Let that sink in,” Peters, who has been deemed a conspiracy theorist, Christian nationalist and “prolific” espouser of antisemitic views…
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) on Wednesday defended Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), who has recently faced pressure over allegations that he had an affair with a staffer who later killed herself. “He’s not been indicted for anything. Does it look good? No, I don’t like the appearance of it. He’s got a problem here, don’t get…
Republican strategist Karl Rove on Wednesday accused President Trump of making a “key mistake” during the State of the Union by not addressing the concerns of disenchanted voters who are seeking relief from financial hardship. “For them, the president’s speech almost certainly didn’t sound based in reality. Many Americans, especially swing voters, are pessimistic about…
Rep. Warren Davidson (Ohio) on Thursday became the second House Republican to pledge support for a resolution aimed at limiting President Trump’s ability to take unilateral military action in Iran. Davidson wrote in a post on the social platform X that he has requested a classified briefing on the “mission in Iran,” but he intended…
The family of a sanctioned United Nations human rights investigator on Wednesday sued the Trump administration for sanctioning her over her criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, arguing that the sanctions violate her First Amendment rights. U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s husband, Massimiliano Cali, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Washington.…
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) proposal for a national moratorium on data centers, deeming the idea as an intentional “surrender” to China amid their rapid development of artificial intelligence. “A moratorium on data centers would — would be like, we might as well wave the surrender flag to China…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Thursday unveiled a legislative package intended to mitigate fraud a day after the Trump administration paused $259.5 million in Medicaid funds for the North Star State. Walz’s package would create a new statute that increases penalties for public fraud by 20 percent and extend statutes of limitations to seven…
Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats. An analysis that was first shared with The Hill tabulated both official and unofficial estimates of the impacts of the bill’s pro-fossil fuel policies and averaged them over a 10-year period. The report only looks at provisions…
Mortgage rates fell below 6 percent on Thursday for the first time in over three years, marking an opening for home buyers as inflation cools. Currently, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is averaging 5.98, down .03 percent from last week, according to Freddie Mac. Last year, the rate averaged 6.76 percent. “This lower rate environment is…
And mainstream media wonders why so many Americans hate them?
Sports personality Stephen A. Smith said Wednesday that President Trump has been “playing” Democrats “like a fiddle” for over a decade, pointing to comments in Trump’s State of the Union address about undocumented migrants. “And he’s making the claim that you hate him so much, you’re devoid of objectivity, and you’re devoid of thinking about…
U.S. and Iranian officials on Thursday made “significant progress” in negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, said Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi as the threat of war looms over the Middle East. Oman served as a mediator between the U.S. and Iranian officials for the latest round of talks, which took place at the Omani diplomatic…
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Thursday the Trump administration lacks a “clear objective” with respect to its pressure campaign toward Iran. “The president hasn’t made the case to the American public, and they don’t have a clear objective,” Kaine said on MS NOW. “This looks like Iraq, which was a disaster, but without the work…
The Republican strategist laid into President Donald Trump for attacking Democrats as “crazy” and “sick people” who are “destroying our country.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) shared his trepidation about Vice President Vance in a recent interview with MS NOW, describing him as “dangerous.” “Vance, for whatever reason, scares me, almost more than Trump,” the Democratic governor told host Jen Psaki. “I mean, talk about a guy who put a mask on and his face grew…
Trump’s secretary of state slammed the future president for taking advantage of “the little guy” during the heated 2016 GOP presidential primary race.
Jeremy Swayman was asked about the “negative reaction” to the locker room laughter sparked by the president’s joke about the women’s team.
A shootout aboard a U.S. boat in Cuban waters on Wednesday resulted in four deaths and six injuries that have raised already high territorial tensions between Cuba and the U.S. U.S. and Florida officials are leading an investigation into the incident that took place off the Florida Keys and the citizenship status of those killed…
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that it was “offensive” for conservative pundit Tucker Carlson to suggest in a recent interview that President Trump was taking cues from the Israeli government on foreign policy. “It’s very offensive to think that President Trump is, as Tucker Carlson characterized it, somebody who is being pushed…