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• Dems damp down hopes for climate change agenda

  17-10-2018 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are unlikely to pursue major climate change legislation if they win the House majority, despite a growing body of evidence suggesting time is running out to address the issue. This represents a shift in strategy from when House...
  
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• Senate conservatives pan Greene’s 'horrible idea' to oust Speaker Johnson

  04-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Senate conservatives are urging Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to back off her attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), saying it’s a waste of time and Congress has higher priorities ahead of the November election.Greene filed her motion to vacate a month ago to protest the Speaker’s handling of Ukraine aid, government spending and reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and Republicans have been dreading the moment when she forces a vote on the resol
  
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• Biden bets on the middle with campus protests

  04-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is betting on the middle.Biden, a centrist Democrat who defeated several more progressive rivals in the 2020 primary, this week offered criticism of the college campus protests engulfing the nation, saying they would not change his policies on Israel’s war in Gaza and would not be protected when they turned violent.The words were measured. Biden said people had a right to protest, and the president has signaled his unhappiness with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  
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• Fox anchor pushes back on Mace's claim of George Soros funding student protests 

  04-05-2024 04:40 via thehill.com
  
  Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto pushed back on a claim by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) that progressive billionaire George Soros has funded groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.“There's a push right now on the part of some of these institutions to negotiate with the protesters, and to go ahead and put up for a vote any measure that would sort of call for divesting of funds or investments in Israel,” Cavuto told Mace on his show “Your World with Neil Cavuto. &
  
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• USA News LIVE | White House | Matthew Miller Conducts US State Department Briefing LIVE | N18L - News18

  04-05-2024 03:54 via news.google.com
  USA News LIVE | White House | Matthew Miller Conducts US State Department Briefing LIVE | N18L  News18
  
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• University of Vermont cancels UN ambassador's address amid Gaza protests 

  04-05-2024 03:47 via thehill.com
  
  The University of Vermont (UVM) has canceled United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield's commencement speech amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus as protests sweep colleges across the nation.“We are looking forward to the upcoming Commencement ceremonies and the opportunity to celebrate our 2024 UVM graduates,” Suresh Garimella, the university’s president, said in a message to the university community Friday obtained by The Hill. “After their years of hard
  
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• International court pushes back on 'threats' as it weighs Israel-Hamas arrests

  04-05-2024 00:38 via thehill.com
  
  The International Criminal Court (ICC) pushed back against “threats” Friday as it faces intense pressure following reports of possible arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas officials over their conduct in the Oct. 7 attack and war in Gaza that has followed.
  A number of pro-Israel U.S. lawmakers and the Biden administration have urged the ICC to refrain from such action, arguing it doesn't have jurisdiction over Israel. Axios reported Thursday that senators from both parties met with
  
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• Biden awards Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including Pelosi, Clyburn

  03-05-2024 23:56 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including top longtime Democratic congressional leaders, calling them “an incredible group of people.”“Nineteen incredible people whose relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity, and hope have kept faith in a better tomorrow,” the president said, with the group of recipients sitting beside him at the podium.Biden spoke about each recipient individually before giving them their medals. He called
  
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• Education secretary condemns 'abhorrent' antisemitic incidents on campus  

  03-05-2024 22:24 via thehill.com
  
  Education Secretary Miguel Cardona sent a letter Friday to college and university presidents condemning what he called “abhorrent” antisemitic incidents on campus, the latest response from the Biden administration to the ongoing nationwide protests.Cardona’s letter takes a sterner tone from the administration and comes the day after a brief address from President Biden where he was sharply critical of aspects of the demonstrations, including the isolated incidents of violence o
  
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• White House shakes up its immigration team

  03-05-2024 21:59 via thehill.com
  
  The White House is shaking up its roster of immigration advisors, bringing in a top border enforcement policy leader and a development expert to round out its team.Blas Nuñez-Neto comes to the White House from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where he served as the assistant secretary for border and immigration policy and was a key negotiator on a failed bipartisan Senate deal on immigration.Marcela Escobari has left her post at USAID, where she served as the head of the Bureau
  
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• Jean-Pierre: 'Admirable' for UNC students to hold up American flag during campus protest

  03-05-2024 21:47 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Friday praised the actions of a group of University of North Carolina students who held up the American flag at a protest on campus over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked during a briefing whether President Biden would consider making a donation to the fraternity members who went viral for protecting the flag. Jean-Pierre skirted the question of a donation or a phone call to thank them, but she praised the group's actions."All Americans
  
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• Cuellar, wife indicted on bribery charges

  03-05-2024 20:35 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife were indicted Friday on charges related to accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes and laundering the funds.The indictment filed by the Justice Department details payments Cuellar allegedly accepted both from an oil company owned by the Azerbaijan government as well as a Mexican bank.“The bribe payments were allegedly laundered, pursuant to sham consulting contracts, through a series of front companies and middlemen into shell companies owned by Imeld
  
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• Mark Hamill calls Biden 'Joe-B-Wan Kenobi' in White House press room appearance

  03-05-2024 20:30 via thehill.com
  
  Mark Hamill says the force is with President Biden — the actor made a surprise visit Friday to the White House briefing room and offered a "Star Wars"-inspired nickname for the commander in chief. "How many of you had Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing on your bingo cards?" Hamill, sporting a pair of sunglasses, told reporters at the top of the White House's press briefing. "I just got to meet the president and he gave me these aviator glasses," added Hamill, known for his
  
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• Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pelosi, Gore, 17 others: Watch live

  03-05-2024 20:30 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday afternoon will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people of diverse backgrounds, with actions and achievements spanning the better part of a century.Among those receiving this highest of civilian honors are two prominent figures from the Civil Rights movement: Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer and activist who co-wrote Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, and Medgar Evers, who was murdered while working to end segregation in Mississipp
  
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• Republicans seek to revive Trump policy of branding foreign aid with US flag

  03-05-2024 19:53 via thehill.com
  
  A group of House Republicans is introducing an amendment to require U.S. foreign assistance to display the American flag, which would revive a Trump-era policy that was revoked by President Biden.The amendment is being led by GOP members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Reps. Brian Mast (Fla.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.) and Jim Baird (Ind.).The draft text is an amendment to the USAID Branding Modernization Act, a law that passed in 2019 to more fully encourage the us
  
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• Texas Democrat declares innocence ahead of expected indictment

  03-05-2024 17:51 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) addressed an expected indictment following reports the Justice Department is preparing charges against him, saying he is “innocent of these allegations” and still plans to seek reelection.The Justice Department searched Cuellar’s home in January 2022 as part of an investigation into Azerbaijan.Cuellar, a co-chair of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus, said at the time he was not the target of the investigation.In his Friday statement, Cuellar did n
  
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• Sanders: Protests ‘may be Biden's Vietnam’

  03-05-2024 16:02 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said that the protests on college campuses over Israel’s war against Hamas could be President Biden’s Vietnam War, making the comparison to the anti-war protests in the 1960s while also offering support for the president’s statement this week.“I am thinking back and other people are making this reference that this may be Biden’s Vietnam,” Sanders told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who asked the senator what could happen to Biden
  
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• Democrats knock Johnson for suggesting George Soros behind campus protests

  03-05-2024 11:30 via thehill.com
  
  Jewish Democrats are admonishing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) this week after the Republican leader suggested George Soros is behind the pro-Palestinian protests roiling colleges campuses across the country. The Democrats — many of them highly critical of the anti-Israel demonstrations, which they say cross a line into antisemitism — are accusing Johnson of that same offense for elevating unfounded theories that Soros, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, is funding the student protest
  
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• Biden to award Medal of Freedom to 19 people, including Pelosi, Gore, Ledecky and Bloomberg

  03-05-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 individuals on Friday at a White House ceremony, including stalwarts of Democratic politics like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former Vice President Al Gore (D) and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.).The White House announced the recipients for the medal, which is the nation's highest civilian honor given to those who have made "exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or
  
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• Biden expands ObamaCare to Dreamers

  03-05-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration on Friday morning announced a rule that will allow certain Dreamers to access the ObamaCare marketplace.Under the rule, active recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be eligible to enroll in a qualified health plan or a basic health plan under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and some forms of financial assistance.“This final rule reflects the president's key commitment to protecting Dreamers and DACA recipients. He is focused on providing
  
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• House panel requests FTC investigate if TikTok violated child protection act

  03-05-2024 04:04 via thehill.com
  
  The leaders of a bipartisan panel that is focused on China have sent a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether TikTok has violated child protection laws in its efforts to stop the United States from banning the app.The letter, obtained by The Hill and first reported by NBC News, is addressed to FTC Chair Lina Khan and asks the organization to examine if the app violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), or Section 5 of the FTC Act, when i
  
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• North Carolina congressional candidate drops out of race after Trump endorses rival

  03-05-2024 01:29 via thehill.com
  
  The one-time frontrunner in a GOP congressional primary race in North Carolina ended her campaign on Thursday, citing former President Trump’s endorsement of her opponent."In light of President Trump's endorsement of Brad Knott for the Congressional seat in District 13, it has become clear that a pathway to victory is no longer feasible. I believe in the democratic process and respect the endorsement of our President," Kelly Daughtry said in a statement announcing the end of her campaign.&
  
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• Schumer poised to join Johnson invite for Netanyahu address to Congress

  02-05-2024 23:54 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is poised to join Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, despite tensions between the Israeli leader and many Democrats over the ongoing war in the Middle East.Johnson told The Hill this week that he sent Schumer a draft invitation around a month ago, but the Senate leader has been sitting on it since.“I sent a letter draft, because it’s a bicameral invitation
  
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• Palestinian group says Education Department has opened probe into discrimination at Columbia

  02-05-2024 22:49 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Education is investigating anti-Palestinian discrimination at Columbia University amid the recent protests there, according to Palestine Legal.  “Today @EDcivilrights announced @Columbia is under federal investigation for anti-Palestinian racism, including by inviting NYPD officers in riot gear to arrest Palestinian and associated students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” Palestine Legal said in a post on X Thursday.
  The Education Department’s
  
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• Biden gives remarks on rebuilding infrastructure, securing jobs: Watch live

  02-05-2024 22:13 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will address economic issues in a speech from Wilmington, N.C., Thursday afternoon.
  Biden is expected to announce funding to replace lead pipes around the country.Earlier on Thursday, the president stopped in Charlotte, N.C., to express condolences to the families of four law enforcement officers who were killed by a shootout Monday.Biden is slated to speak beginning at 4:30 p.m. EDT.Watch the live video above.
  
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• White House puts teachers in the spotlight as Latinos look away

  02-05-2024 21:38 via thehill.com
  
  At a reception with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Tuesday, a man in a blue checkered suit suddenly broke down in tears.The man is one of the teachers of the year, in Washington for recognition and a state dinner to be hosted by first lady Jill Biden on Thursday.“Of the 50-plus teachers they had like, easily 10 for which they literally — they were in tears,” said Roy Sosa, a fintech entrepreneur who surprised each of the educators with a $5,000 gift at the reception.&ldq
  
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• Fox's McEnany: 'I give Biden zero credit' for statement on college protests

  02-05-2024 18:39 via thehill.com
  
  Fox News host Kaleigh McEnany said she is not willing to give President Biden any credit for condemning demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have broken out across college campuses in recent days, some of which have turned violent.
  "Joe Biden hails from the left, he is a Democrat president. I'm sorry but I give him no credit today. Zero credit today," she said on Fox's afternoon talk show "Outnumbered." "I like to give Biden credit when credit is due. Not today."Biden, in remarks to repor
  
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• Harris hits Trump on abortion two years after leaked Supreme Court decision

  02-05-2024 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris on Thursday marked the two-year anniversary of the leaked Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with a fresh round of attacks on former President Trump over abortion, in a video obtained exclusively by The Hill.“Two years ago, we learned in a leaked draft decision that the Supreme Court of the United States would overturn Roe vs. Wade,” Harris said in the video. “And in the two years since, in states across our nation, extremists have propos
  
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• Harris hits Trump on abortion 2 years after leaked Supreme Court decision

  02-05-2024 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris on Thursday marked the second anniversary of the leaked Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with a fresh round of attacks on former President Trump over abortion, in a video obtained exclusively by The Hill.“Two years ago, we learned in a leaked draft decision that the Supreme Court of the United States would overturn Roe vs. Wade,” Harris said in the video. “And in the two years since, in states across our nation, extremists have proposed
  
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• Lawmakers announce dog lovers caucus in wake of Noem news

  02-05-2024 17:33 via thehill.com
  
  Bipartisan lawmakers on Tuesday announced the start of a dog lovers’ caucus on Capitol Hill in the wake of a story about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) shooting and killing a family dog.“In light of recent events, we’re launching the Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus today!” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said in a post on the social platform X. “This group dedicated to man’s best friend aims to foster bipartisan cooperation and will help put paws over po
  
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