Casino mogul and conservative mega-donor Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam donated $30 million to conservative groups in September as the GOP seeks to blunt a House Democratic wave in the midterms. New FEC filings show each Adelson contributed $10 million last month to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC linked to House Speaker…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) holds an 18-point lead over her progressive challenger, California state Sen. Kevin de León (D), ahead of November’s midterms, according to a new poll. Feinstein has the support of 41 percent of likely voters to de León’s 23 percent, according to an Emerson College poll released Monday. The poll, which has a margin of error of…
SAN ANTONIO — Rep. Beto O’RourkeBeto O’RourkeBiden will help close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention: report O’Rourke on Texas reopening: ‘Dangerous, dumb and weak’ Parties gear up for battle over Texas state House MORE’s chances of unseating Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote The Hill’s Morning Report –…
America is more polarized than ever. Just look at the states. The number of state legislatures where both Democrats and Republicans control one chamber is at an all-time low, after a deeply polarizing election made red states redder and blue states bluer. Only one state — Minnesota — has a bicameral legislature in which Democrats and Republicans…
“This is a very big deal,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says about the official Green New Deal proposal—of which he is a “proud” original co-sponsor—in a new video shared to his social media profiles on Friday. Unveiled on Thursday by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the proposal is not written “as…
Man Bahadur Thapa had his doubts about the safety of the travel arrangements. Taliban spies were everywhere in the Afghan capital, and the bus transporting him and the Canadian embassy’s other guards, all Nepalese and Indian, was unarmoured. But Thapa was used to pushing worries to the back of his mind. After all, he thought,…
She’s just 13 years old, but she’s “a threat.” That’s climate activist Alexandria Villaseñor, who explained in an interview Friday morning, “My generation is going to have to live in a climate-changed world, and the fact that nothing was done in order to make sure that we don’t live in planetary catastrophe—it’s very disappointing and…
President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency and Texas state officials rejected an offer from NASA scientists in 2017 to use their state-of-the-art flying laboratory to evaluate air quality in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, new reporting by the Los Angeles Times reveals. “This is disturbing,” said Lina Hidalgo, judge for Texas’s Harris County. Harvey brought historic…
Hundreds of people were killed and many more remain missing after a tropical cyclone destroyed 90 percent of the port city of Beira, Mozambique, before moving on to Malawi and Zimbabwe—eliciting fresh demands for bolder efforts to battle the climate crisis that is making extreme weather more common and devastating. An initial assessment from the…
A federal judge on Thursday gave the Trump administration six months to identify potentially thousands of immigrant children it ripped from their families under the so-called “zero tolerance” border policy. The Trump administration previously said it could take two years to identify the separated children, but U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw sided with the…