Harris says Democrats believed ‘certain issues were just settled’ when asked about failure to codify Roe v. Wade
Vice President Harris said that Democrats believed Roe v. Wade to be a settled issue when asked about party lawmakers' failure to codify abortion protections into federal law over the past 50 years. “We certainly believed that certain issues are just settled,” Harris told CBS News's Robert Costa, in an interview that was shown on CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell on Friday and will be shown on “Face the Nation” on Sunday. H
Read MoreOklahoma’s planned execution spree underlines death penalty’s errors
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Read MoreEU-UK green energy dispute sends clear message to global economy
On July 1, the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) stepped back from the brink of a trade war. You read that correctly. The EU sued the UK at the World Trade Organization (WTO), but last week they reached an out-of-court settlement. The dispute is intriguing for
Read MorePost Roe, anti-abortion groups focus efforts on the state level
Anti-abortion groups are focusing their efforts on state legislatures in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade. March for Life, a group that has organizes a yearly national march in Washington, D.C., against abortion, will start to focus its activism more on the state level, Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, told The Hill. In the next year, the group wants to double the number of state marches they have and “over the course of the next five to six years aggressively and quickly grow our state marches program t
Read MoreButtigieg changes residency to Michigan, husband’s home state
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has moved his residency from Indiana to Michigan and plans to register to vote there, a Department of Transportation spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. The spokesperson said Buttigieg made the move to Traverse City, which is located in the northern part of the state, to be closer to his husband Chasten’s parents. Buttigieg and his husband bought a house in the city two years ago, according to t
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