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• Sea Lion Drags Little Girl Into Water In Terrifying Viral Video

  22-05-2017 22:34
  
  The dramatic moment a sea lion dragged a little girl into the water at a wharf in British Columbia was caught on video.
  
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• Fight over Johnson’s fate heats to a boil as Democrats vow unprecedented rescue

  01-05-2024 00:15 via thehill.com
  
  The simmering debate over the fate of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reached a rolling boil on Tuesday when top Democrats vowed to shield the embattled GOP leader from a conservative coup — and immediately prompted the coup’s ringleader to pledge a vote to boot him from power.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who’s been sitting on her motion to vacate resolution for more than a month, said the Democrats’ promised rescue mission was the last straw in a long list of grieva
  
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• Speaker Johnson calls on Biden to visit Columbia amid pro-Palestine protests

  30-04-2024 21:43 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging President Biden to visit Columbia University and observe the pro-Palestine protests roiling its Manhattan campus after Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers stopped by the university grounds and denounced the demonstrations.Asked during a press conference on Tuesday if he would challenge Biden to visit Columbia — which has been the site of one of the most explosive pro-Palestine campus protests in the U.S. — Johnson responded, “Ye
  
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• Foxx calls on heads of Yale, UCLA, Michigan as part of House-wide antisemitism probe

  30-04-2024 21:25 via thehill.com
  
  Chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Tuesday called on the heads of Yale University, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Michigan to testify before her panel in May as part of a new House-wide investigation into antisemitism in the U.S.At the press conference, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced a chamber-wide effort to combat antisemitism, with the chairs of multiple committees in attendance to detail how
  
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• Foxx calls heads of Yale, UCLA, Michigan as part of House-wide antisemitism probe

  30-04-2024 21:25 via thehill.com
  
  Chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Tuesday called on the heads of Yale University, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Michigan to testify before her panel in May as part of a new House-wide investigation into antisemitism in the U.S.At the press conference, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced a chamber-wide effort to combat antisemitism, with the chairs of multiple committees in attendance to detail how t
  
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• Judiciary Republicans zero in on top prosecutor in Trump hush money case

  30-04-2024 21:00 via thehill.com
  
  The House Judiciary Committee is again singling out a top prosecutor in former President Trump’s hush money case, asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over the bulk of its communications relating to Matthew Colangelo.Colangelo, who delivered the opening statement in Trump’s New York trial last week, was a senior Justice Department official in the Biden administration before joining the Manhattan district attorney’s office in December 2022.Colangelo has been a target
  
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• 'Inexcusable': Senators grill Education secretary over botched FAFSA roll out

  30-04-2024 20:21 via thehill.com
  
  WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said the Department of Education is working around the clock to make sure the FAFSA process improves, after major delays and a troubled roll out of the new financial aid form.“We’ve had delays, we’ve had issues with some of the coding that we had to make changes to,” Cardona said.Lawmakers grilled Sec. Cardona about the roll out during a hearing on Tuesday, just one day before May 1, which in normal circumst
  
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• Pentagon chief: 'Possible' US troops setting up pier off Gaza get shot at

  30-04-2024 20:07 via thehill.com
  
  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said it is “possible” that the U.S. troops setting up a floating pier off the coast of Gaza could be shot at, and that they have the right to shoot back.“Typically, all of the deployed service members carry guns and they have the ability to protect themselves if challenged,” Austin told House Armed Services Committee lawmakers while testifying before the panel.As many as 1,000 American service members are helping set up a flo
  
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• Biden administration plans to ease marijuana restrictions: Reports

  30-04-2024 20:03 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has plans to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic step toward lessening federal restrictions on decades of U.S. drug policy, reports found.The DEA will approve an opinion from the Department of Health and Human Services that the drug should be reclassified from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug, NBC News reported.The DEA’s proposal must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, but if approved
  
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• Biden administration plans to ease marijuana restrictions

  30-04-2024 20:03 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is moving forward with plans to move marijuana off the most severe classification of Schedule I to Schedule III, a source familiar with the decision confirmed to The Hill Tuesday.Rescheduling marijuana is distinct from descheduling it entirely, which some advocacy groups and lawmakers have called for, as it could still lead to legal action against those found to be in possession of it in states where the drug is not legal.The White House Office of Management and Budget
  
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• Agriculture Department testing beef for bird flu virus

  30-04-2024 19:56 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is testing beef for a bird flu virus following the infections of cattle in multiple states, though it says it remains confident the country's meat supply is safe.
  The agency is doing three studies related to bird flu in dairy cattle, one in which they sample ground beef at retail locations, another in which they sample the muscle beef from culled cows and a third in which they utilize a virus surrogate in ground beef and cook it at varying temperatures.The US
  
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• House passes bill to study effects of abandoned oil wells in bipartisan vote

  30-04-2024 19:35 via thehill.com
  
  The House passed legislation sponsored by Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) Tuesday, that aims to address environmental hazards from abandoned gas and oil wells, in a 333-75 vote.The bill, the Abandoned Wells, Remediation, Research and Development Act, would direct the Energy Department to develop a research and development program for abandoned wells. Pennsylvania has the second largest amount of abandoned and orphaned wells of any state, surpassed only by Texas. Some 27,000 abandoned wells have been doc
  
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• Speaker Johnson speaks on rising antisemitism on college campuses: Watch live

  30-04-2024 19:28 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will address the increased antisemitism at U.S. colleges and universities at a press event Tuesday.Although related to the wave of protests against Israel’s prosecution of its war against Hamas, reports of antisemitism describe the threat of personal harm to individuals that goes far beyond political demonstration or even civil disobedience.Eyewitness accounts from students at Columbia University have said that their institution’s administration ha
  
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• Greene vows to move ahead on Johnson ouster vote after Democrats promise to save him

  30-04-2024 17:29 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is vowing to move ahead with a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), even after Democratic leaders said they would shield the Louisiana Republican from a conservative coup.In a post on X shortly after the top three Democrats announced that they would vote to table a motion to vacate if Greene brought it to the floor — effectively saving Johnson’s job — Greene said she would bring it to the floor regardless. The Georgia Rep
  
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• White House: Takeover of Columbia University building 'absolutely the wrong approach'

  30-04-2024 17:05 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Tuesday condemned the move by student protesters to take over a building on Columbia University’s campus, calling it the wrong approach amid the ongoing college demonstrations across the country against Israel's handling of its war in Gaza.Pro-Palestine protesters at the New York school took control of an academic building early on Tuesday, barricading entrances and flying a Palestinian flag outside the window. “The president believes that forcibly t
  
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• Senate, House Dems: Oil companies pivoted from climate denial to 'deception, disinformation, and doublespeak'

  30-04-2024 16:50 via thehill.com
  
  Major oil companies have internally conceded their public vows to reduce planet-warming emissions are incompatible with their business plans, according to a three-year report issued by Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee and the House Oversight Committee.The report, which builds on an Oversight probe that stalled out after Republicans took the House majority, includes documents in which oil industry figures seemingly concede the industry’s history of knowingly suppressing the link bet
  
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• Senate Democrats: Oil companies pivoted from climate denial to 'deception, disinformation, and doublespeak'

  30-04-2024 16:50 via thehill.com
  
  Major oil companies have internally conceded their public vows to reduce planet-warming emissions are incompatible with their business plans, according to a three-year report issued by Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee and the House Oversight Committee.The report, which builds on an Oversight probe that stalled out after Republicans took the House majority, includes documents in which oil industry figures seemingly concede the industry’s history of knowingly suppressing the link bet
  
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• Free Comic Book Day coming to the Capitol

  30-04-2024 16:43 via thehill.com
  
  The Capitol is about to get a dose of — Bam! Splat! Zap! — at an event marking Free Comic Book Day.Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), one of Congress's comics mega-fans, will host the ode to serialized stories on Wednesday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Longworth House Office Building.The book-focused bash will feature free comics from the local Washington stores Big Planet Comics and Fantom Comics, along with a "display of rare comics from the Library of Congress."The celebration at the
  
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• Democratic leaders say they'll shield Speaker Johnson from Greene motion to vacate

  30-04-2024 16:33 via thehill.com
  
  House Democratic leaders announced Tuesday that they will protect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from a potential conservative coup, all but ensuring the Speaker will keep the gavel through the remainder of the term.The proclamation from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) is a remarkable development in the turbulent Speaker saga that's hobbled the GOP's governing majority from the earliest days of the 118th C
  
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• Stefanik files ethics complaint against Jack Smith

  30-04-2024 14:26 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) filed an ethics complaint against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, accusing the prosecutor overseeing the federal investigations into former President Trump of trying to “unlawfully interfere with the 2024 presidential election.”Stefanik, the House GOP conference chair and a close Trump ally, filed the complaint with the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, arguing that Smith is trying to “rush” Trump’s
  
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• Nebraska district to play pivotal role in Biden-Trump rematch

  30-04-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The results of a single congressional district in Nebraska could be critical to determining the outcome of this year's presidential election in what will likely be an extremely tight race.The Cornhusker State’s unique system awards an electoral vote in presidential elections to the winner of each of its three congressional districts, in addition to the winner of the statewide result. Unlike the rest of the ruby-red state, the 2nd Congressional District, which includes the Omaha area, has b
  
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• White House finalizes permitting reform rule included in debt ceiling deal

  30-04-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized rules Tuesday aimed at streamlining the environmental review process under the National Environmental Protection Act.The final rule, which was part of an agreement in last summer’s deal to increase the federal debt ceiling, creates new methods for the federal government to establish a categorical exclusion. These are the speediest category of decisions in the permitting process because they refer to cases where the government
  
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• Greene leaves them guessing on threat to oust Speaker Johnson

  30-04-2024 02:28 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is happy to keep them guessing.The Georgia hardliner introduced her motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in March, framing it as a warning to GOP leaders ahead of explosive debates on government spying and aid to Ukraine.Yet more than a month later, Greene has declined to force a vote on the resolution, even after Johnson helped to usher both of those bills into law over the howls of conservatives in his GOP conference.And on Monday evening — afte
  
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• The Memo: Potential arrest warrant for Netanyahu gets pushback from White House

  30-04-2024 00:46 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is setting its face against any possible prosecution of members of Israel’s government, amid speculation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could soon issue arrest warrants over the conduct of the war in Gaza.“We do not support it,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at Monday’s media briefing, referring to the ICC’s investigation, which encompasses the actions of Hamas as well as Israel. “We don&rsq
  
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• Speaker Johnson slams reports that ICC is considering arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

  29-04-2024 22:37 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday slammed reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is planning on issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials.In a statement, Johnson called the reported arrest warrants illegitimate and said, “Instead of wrongly targeting Israel,” the ICC should redirect its focus to Hamas and other Iran-aligned terror groups and prosecute them “for engaging in horrific war crimes.&rdqu
  
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• Trump leads in 3-way race with Biden, RFK Jr.: Poll

  29-04-2024 21:58 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump is the front-runner in a three-way race with President Biden and Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll shared with The Hill on Monday. In a race between the three candidates, 44 percent of registered voters said they backed Trump while 38 percent said they would vote for Biden. Another 12 percent said they supported Kennedy and five percent said they did not know or were unsure of who they were going to support. 
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• Texas governor says state will ignore 'illegal' Biden Title IX revisions

  29-04-2024 21:20 via thehill.com
  
  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said on Monday his state will not abide by the Biden administration’s sweeping new changes to Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at government-funded schools.In a letter to President Biden, Abbott railed against the revised rules – which provide new protections for transgender students – saying they’re “illegal” and the result of a “ham-handed effort to impose a leftist belief onto Title
  
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• Jeffries calls on Johnson to hold vote on antisemitism bill

  29-04-2024 21:10 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is urging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to stage a vote on a bipartisan bill to combat antisemitism, the latest push by lawmakers in the wake of pro-Palestine protests roiling college campuses across the country.In a letter to Johnson on Monday, Jeffries asked that the Speaker bring the Countering Antisemitism Act to the floor, which would establish a national coordinator to counter antisemitism at the White House, who would serve as the preside
  
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• Harris kicks off Economic Opportunity Tour: Watch live

  29-04-2024 20:15 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris will join Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, hosts of the personal finance podcast "Earn Your Leisure," for a conversation Monday in the Atlanta suburb of College Park.Harris’s trip to Georgia is the first stop on a tour planned to showcase the Biden-Harris administration’s support for local economies. A statement released by the White House ahead of the event points to federal investments aimed at developing Georgia’s small businesses, improving neighborhoo
  
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• Democrats call on Columbia board to end protest encampment or resign 

  29-04-2024 15:52 via thehill.com
  
  A group of House Democrats is urging Columbia University’s Board of Trustees to end the ongoing protest encampment on the campus or step down from their positions.Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) led the group of 21 colleagues in sending a letter to the board demanding that school officials put an end to the encampment, which has garnered national attention for more than a week.“We, the undersigned, write to express our disappointment that, despite promises to
  
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