Could immigration reform reboot Joe Biden’s presidency?
The liberal media has characterized the Supreme Court’s decision allowing President Biden to terminate the “Remain in Mexico” policy as a win for the president. Not so fast. In reality, the court has handed the struggling president yet another political hot potato. Already there are a record number of people traveling north to cross into the U.S. illegally; this decision will likely increase the flow, causing
Read MoreDC Health Department lays off 131 workers, ends COVID contract tracing program
The DC Health Department ended its COVID-19 contract tracing program on Thursday, laying off 131 workers employed by the program. “The COVID-19 Contact Trace Force has been instrumental in helping slow the spread of COVID-19 in the District of Columbia,” DC Health told The Hill. “However with COVID infection levels coming down and easier access to at-home testing kits, the COVID-19 Contact Trace Force is no longer as effective or vital a tool as it was during the peak of the pandemic.” The District of Columbia government currently
Read MoreFlorida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law takes effect today. Its impact is already being felt
Story at a glance Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law – known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law – will officially take effect today. The measure has already had a chilling effect on public school educators, who in some cases have been instructed to remove LGBTQ+ Pride flags and photographs of same-sex partners from their classrooms to avoid violating the law.
Read MoreAre we witnessing a military revolution on Ukraine battlefields?
President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Ukrainian warriors have unleashed a “Red Dawn”-like response against Russian troop advances in nearly every part of the country. Russian tanks — the much-heralded T-72, T-80 and T-90 — are no match for the Javelin, Next-generation Light Anti-tank Weapon (NLAW), Baykar Bayraktar TB2 and Switchblade drones. Their turrets litter the Ukraine landscape. Neither composite armor, explosive reactive armor, nor countermeasure suites have been effective against the
Read MoreThe Hill's Morning Report — Under fire, Biden urges Congress to act on abortion
President Biden on Thursday said the Supreme Court’s decision to turn abortion law over to the states was an “outrageous” move that threw more than women’s rights and medical decisions into limbo. Privacy, he argued, is a cherished constitutional shield that the conservative court could erase by nullifying other rights, including contraception and “who you can marry.” The president called on Congress to correct the court’s ruling by passing a law that embodies the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade to safeguard abortion and privacy as federal rights. Under pressure with
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