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• This fiery video captures Mount Etna's magical oozing lava

  19-03-2017 21:31
  
  Italy's Mount Etna is still fired up. The Sicilian volcano has been spewing lava and belching ash on and off for nearly three months now. After the latest eruption on March 16, fiery-hot lava began flowing down the volcano's slopes. The video shown above captures the flow only two days later.SEE ALSO: Watch this Mexican volcano blow some serious smokeBut as Mount Etna reminded visitors, lava is best viewed from afar. The brilliant red lava recently caused an explosion when it hit snow on the mou
  
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• House races to sanction ICC over Israel war crimes allegations

  24-05-2024 00:53 via thehill.com
  
  Lawmakers in both parties are racing against the clock to secure a bipartisan bill to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials after they filed requests for arrest warrants for top Israeli leaders, hoping a forceful bipartisan response from Washington will deter the court’s judges from ratifying the charges in the coming weeks.Congress left Washington on Thursday for a long holiday recess without reaching a bipartisan agreement on exactly how to push back against the
  
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• Sparks fly over SNAP at partisan markup of House farm bill

  24-05-2024 00:31 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats and Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee sparred over food aid on Thursday at the markup of the chamber’s version of the $1.5 trillion omnibus farm bill.The issue set off partisan fireworks at the contentious session, during which representatives from both sides of the aisle took to the dais to extol the virtues of bipartisanship while accusing their opposite numbers of throwing those values in the trash.Lawmakers fiercely debated whether Republican attempts to freeze c
  
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• Pennsylvania Democrat suffers 'minor stroke,' will be out six weeks

  24-05-2024 00:10 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Dwight Evans (D-Penn.) said on Thursday he suffered a “minor stroke” and will be out for six weeks as he recovers.Evans, who represents Philadelphia, said in a statement he received the diagnosis this week and did not realize at the time of the incident that he was having a stroke. He said the stroke should have no bearing on his ability to continue serving his constituents in the long term.“I wanted to let my constituents know that I am recovering from a minor stroke, and
  
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• Biden reaffirms commitment to gun reform in letter to Uvalde shooting victims’ families

  24-05-2024 00:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden penned a letter to the families of the victims of the deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, reaffirming his commitment to gun violence prevention to mark two years since the tragedy.Biden notes in the letter, dated for the anniversary Friday, that him and first lady Jill Biden visited Uvalde after the shooting. He said, “When we met with the families, they had the same message we hear in the aftermath of all too many mass shootings: Do something.&rd
  
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• Garland mocks House Oversight Committee over raucous contempt hearing

  23-05-2024 23:56 via thehill.com
  
  Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday took a quick jab at the House Oversight Committee for devolving into highly publicized chaos last week during a markup to hold him in contempt of Congress.
  When asked Thursday if he watched the Oversight Committee's hearing last week, Garland quipped, "I caught part of that hearing on 'Saturday Night Live.'"
  Nearly an hour of disorder unfolded during the contempt markup when Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) cl
  
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• Sheila Jackson Lee reintroduces George Floyd Justice in Policing Act 

  23-05-2024 21:47 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) reintroduced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on Thursday, a bill that would create federal police reform. Speaking to a crowd that included family members of those affected by police violence, Jackson Lee called the legislation “critical.”“Far too many lives have been lost or forever changed due to unacceptable incidents of police brutality throughout our nation,” Jackson Lee said. “We cannot allow another American to
  
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• Biden says GOP doesn’t care about securing border after border bill fails in Senate

  23-05-2024 21:31 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden bashed Republicans for blocking the border security legislation in the Senate Thursday, arguing that the GOP doesn’t care about securing the U.S.'s southern border.“Congressional Republicans do not care about securing the border or fixing America’s broken immigration system. If they did, they would have voted for the toughest border enforcement in history. Instead, today, they put partisan politics ahead of our country’s national security,” he said i
  
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• Long COVID research advocates hammer Biden over 'minimal funding' in budget request

  23-05-2024 21:09 via thehill.com
  
  Long COVID research advocates slammed the Biden administration over “minimal funding” for long COVID in its budget request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fiscal year 2025.“The Long COVID Campaign, in partnership with Long COVID Moonshot and Patient Led Research Collaborative, has called on Congressional leaders to appropriate at least $1.2 Billion in FY25 funding for Long COVID research, with other patient groups advocating for even higher levels of funding to
  
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• Long COVID advocates hammer Biden over 'minimal funding' in budget request

  23-05-2024 21:09 via thehill.com
  
  Long COVID advocates slammed the Biden administration over “minimal funding” for long COVID in its budget request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fiscal year 2025.“The Long COVID Campaign, in partnership with Long COVID Moonshot and Patient Led Research Collaborative, has called on Congressional leaders to appropriate at least $1.2 Billion in FY25 funding for Long COVID research, with other patient groups advocating for even higher levels of funding to meet the
  
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• House Republicans rail against Northwestern, Rutgers for cutting deals with protesters

  23-05-2024 20:53 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee went on the offensive during a Thursday hearing on college antisemitism that largely focused on deals Northwestern and Rutgers universities made with pro-Palestinian protesters to get their encampments taken down without police force.  “I want to discuss what has been referred to as the Deering Meadows agreement, your unilateral capitulation to the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, antisemitic” activists, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.
  
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• House passes bill to ban noncitizens from voting in local DC elections

  23-05-2024 20:19 via thehill.com
  
  The House approved a bill Thursday that seeks to ban non-U.S.citizens from voting in local Washington, D.C., elections, once again taking aim at the capital city through legislation.The four-page measure, which passed 262-143, would forbid any noncitizens from voting in elections for municipal office or on ballot initiatives and referendums. Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in any federal-level election.The D.C. Council approved a measure in 2022 that added eligible n
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez mocks Trump over bad weather ahead of Bronx rally: 'God is good'

  23-05-2024 18:59 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mocked former President Trump over bad weather ahead of his Thursday rally in the Bronx. “God is Good 🙏🏽,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a Thursday post on the social media platform X. The New York Democrat replied to a post on X showcasing that the Crotona Park section of the Bronx, where the rally is slated to take place, had rain around 10 a.m. local time Thursday. The House progressive went after the former president e
  
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• White House pressures tech industry on sexually abusive AI deepfakes

  23-05-2024 18:43 via thehill.com
  
  The White House is pressuring the technology industry over sexually explicit artificial intelligence (AI) images.President Biden’s White House is putting forth a call Thursday to try and have technology companies willingly cooperate on the problem of sexually explicit AI deepfakes, according to The Associated Press. Officials want the private sector to check the making, proliferation and monetization of sexually explicit and nonconsensual AI deepfakes.“As generative AI broke on the s
  
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• Jeffries calls on Alito to recuse himself from all Jan. 6 cases

  23-05-2024 17:19 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday bashed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for flying far-right flags associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement outside two of his homes, demanding that Alito recuse himself from any cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.“He definitively needs to recuse himself from any matter pending before the United States Supreme Court that has to do with the Jan. 6 violent insurrection,” Jeffries sa
  
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• Trump says relationship with Putin will help win Gershkovich release

  23-05-2024 17:07 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump said his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin will help free Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who has been detained in Russia for over a year.“Evan Gershkovich, the Reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social early Thursday morning. “He will be HOME, SAFE, AND WIT
  
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• New Democrat Coalition backs slate of AI bills 

  23-05-2024 16:43 via thehill.com
  
  The New Democrat Coalition endorsed 10 bipartisan artificial intelligence (AI) bills on issues surrounding the workforce, elections and privacy, the group of House members announced Thursday.  Some of the bills backed by the House coalition would direct agencies to study AI systems or boost research, but others include more direct requirements about how AI can be used.  “Artificial Intelligence is the next great frontier of technological innovation, presenting both revolutio
  
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• Sanders says he'll boycott Netanyahu speech

  23-05-2024 13:55 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Wednesday that he would not attend any speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Congress, adding to rising pushback from Democrats against Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) effort to send an invitation.Johnson said earlier Wednesday that he expects Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to sign off on Netanyahu's visit Thursday, after days of back-and-forth over whether the controversial Israeli leader should be allowed to address a joint
  
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• Nancy Mace holds wide lead over primary rivals in South Carolina: Poll

  23-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) holds a sizeable lead over her primary rivals in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, according to a new Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey released on Thursday. Forty-seven percent of likely South Carolina Republican primary voters said they backed Mace, while 22 percent said they were supporting former state agency official Catherine Templeton. Another seven percent backed businessman Bill Young and another 24 percent said they were undecided.&n
  
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• Biden administration dares Republicans to vote for Senate border package

  23-05-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is goading Senate Republicans to support a revival of the failed bipartisan border deal that they abandoned after former President Trump came out against it.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is planning a second vote on the bill Thursday, though Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday told President Biden that Republicans plan to vote against it.White House officials on Wednesday sought to put the onus for border inaction on the GO
  
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• Bolton defends Alito amid ‘outrageous’ flag controversy

  23-05-2024 05:23 via thehill.com
  
  Former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday fiercely defended Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito against a barrage of criticism following reporting that, at one point, two flags associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol had been on display outside his home.“Absolutely not,” Bolton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer when asked whether the recent reporting about the flag raised concerns about whether he can serve impartially on the Supreme Court.“I think it
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez urges Senate to launch 'active investigations' into Alito Jan. 6 flag reports

  23-05-2024 04:53 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday called on Senate Democrats to launch “active investigations” into two separate reports that flags associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol were on display outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home.“What we are seeing here is an extraordinary breach of not just the trust and the stature of the Supreme Court, but we are seeing a fundamental challenge to our democracy,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an
  
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• Buttigieg calls out Boebert over infrastructure post

  23-05-2024 03:39 via thehill.com
  
  Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg called out Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on Wednesday for taking credit for securing federal funding for a bridge in her district when, in fact, she voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill that funded the project.“Great meeting with Glenwood Springs City Councilor and former Mayor Jonathan Godes,” Boebert posted on X, attaching a photo with the city councilor.“We have secured over $51.4 million for the South Bridge,” B
  
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• Where is America’s best pizza? Lawmakers slice into an old debate

  23-05-2024 02:58 via thehill.com
  
  One of the country’s most contentious debates made its way up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday: What’s the pizza capital of the U.S.?The answer depends on who you ask.Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D) stirred up the conversation when she held an event on the House steps to declare New Haven, Conn., the best spot for a slice. The Congresswoman handed out boxes of the famed Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria, a pride and joy of New Haven since 1925, before delivering remarks on the House floor cr
  
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• Pressley says Trump Justice Department would 'go on a murdering spree'

  23-05-2024 00:38 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said on Wednesday that former President Trump’s Department of Justice would “go on a murdering spree” if the presumptive GOP nominee wins a second term in the White House this coming November.In a House Oversight hearing on the Office of Personnel Management, Pressley warned of what she viewed as negative policy implications of “Project 2025” – a detailed set of policies, spearheaded by the conservative Heritage Foundation, that
  
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• Even talk of a Netanyahu visit stirs firestorm of controversy

  23-05-2024 00:32 via thehill.com
  
  The prospect that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might soon address a joint session of Congress is already stirring a storm of controversy on Capitol Hill, where liberal Democrats — up in arms over Israel’s conduct in the war with Hamas — are already vowing a boycott.The bitter conflict has been an ongoing headache for President Biden and other Democratic leaders, who are attempting a delicate balance between supporting America’s closest Middle Eastern all
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez: Trump rallying in Bronx due to 'legal version of an ankle bracelet'

  23-05-2024 00:05 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said former President Trump is rallying in the Bronx this week due to a “legal version of an ankle bracelet.”Ocasio-Cortez slammed Trump on Tuesday for his planned Thursday event in the Bronx, the borough where the New York Democrat was born and now partially represents in Congress. Trump has been in New York for more than a month for his hush money trial, which has been going on for about six weeks.“Donald Trump is broke. He needs money.
  
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• House GOP eyes ambitious plans to pass all 12 government funding bills

  22-05-2024 22:49 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans are plotting an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 annual government funding bills for fiscal year 2025 by the August recess, but some are tempering expectations around the goal as negotiators say they are already off to a late start.GOP leadership unveiled the proposed plan at a conference meeting early Wednesday, which aims to begin House votes on the party’s funding proposals in early June, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill.Under the plan, the GOP-led House would
  
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• White House unveils Kenya state dinner menu, taps Brad Paisley, Howard Gospel Choir to perform

  22-05-2024 21:40 via thehill.com
  
  The Kenya state dinner at the White House will feature performances from country music star Brad Paisley and the Howard Gospel Choir, along with a menu aimed at "welcoming the beginning of summer."The Thursday night soiree honoring Kenyan President William Ruto and first lady Rachel Ruto will "mark the 60th anniversary of the United States's partnership with Kenya," first lady Jill Biden said during a media preview on Wednesday."The World" singer Paisley and Howard University's gospel choir
  
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• Obama cheers Biden's 200th judge confirmation

  22-05-2024 21:12 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Obama celebrated President Biden’s 200th judicial nominee being confirmed to the federal bench Wednesday.“@POTUS just confirmed his 200th judge — not an easy accomplishment with a narrow majority in the Senate. And more than half are women and people of color,” Obama said in a post on the social platform X.“Judges have the power to roll back progress or keep us moving forward; to protect our basic liberties or take them away,” Biden's former b
  
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