Kennedy rolls out US-caught seafood labeling, Seafood.govThe Trump administration unveiled new initiatives for U.S. fishermen Friday, including a new government website known as Seafood.gov. At a rally in Fort Myers, Fla., Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the creation of a voluntary label made for U.S.-caught fish, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began…The Hill9h agoWhole story →HealthFood
About half concerned Republicans could try to overturn midterm results: SurveyA new poll released Friday suggests half of Americans are concerned Republicans may try to overturn the results of November’s midterm election. Fifty percent of respondents to the New York Times/Siena University survey said they were either "very" or "somewhat worried" the GOP may use “illegal means” to overturn the election, compared to 49 percent...The Hill9h agoWhole story →EducationGovernment
West Virginia attorney general subpoenas environmental groupsWest Virginia’s attorney general has sent investigative subpoenas to environmental advocacy organizations — something the groups are describing as a retaliatory attack on their First Amendment rights. West Virginia Rivers Coalition and 350.org filed a lawsuit this week saying they and at least four other organizations received subpoenas from the office…The Hill11h agoWhole story →PlanetJustice
Paxton sues OpenAI, Altman for failing to warn Texans about ChatGPT's 'dangers'Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Friday, accusing the company of failing to warn consumers about the potential dangers from its AI models. The lawsuit alleges the ChatGPT maker is running afoul of a Texas consumer protection law and kids' online safety law, underscoring warnings about the...The Hill11h agoWhole story →CommerceJustice
Collins says certain Canadian goods now tariff-exemptSen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Friday that nine categories of Canadian products “crucial for Maine’s agricultural industries” will be exempted from U.S. tariffs. The types of exempted goods include paperboard cartons, plastic boxes, refrigeration equipment, agricultural cleaning and sorting machinery, packing and wrapping machinery and seaweed…The Hill12h agoWhole story →EconomyFood
Acton's mother was convicted of theft, animal cruelty: What to knowA GOP campaign ad featuring the estranged mother of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton (D) received blowback this week after it was revealed Acton's mother stood by her husband after he was charged with sexually abusing Acton as a child. Court records show that the mother, Donna Arthur, has faced legal troubles of her own,...The Hill12h agoWhole story →Justice
Trump says wind turbine part imports cause national security issue, but doesn't impose tariffsThe Trump administration has determined that imports of wind turbine parts pose a national security threat, but it does not appear to be opting to tariff them. President Trump issued a memo Thursday saying “wind turbines and their components and subcomponents are being imported into the United States under such circumstances as to threaten to...The Hill13h agoWhole story →Economy
Ketanji Brown Jackson issues public dissent in New Hampshire voting caseJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly broke with her Supreme Court colleagues in a Thursday ruling allowing New Hampshire to fully block voters from using student IDs in the upcoming midterms. Jackson, the high court's most junior liberal justice, wrote in a short dissent that she would have left in place a lower court decision that...The Hill14h agoWhole story →Justice
Appeals court rules Trump unlawfully deployed National Guard to CaliforniaA federal appeals court on Friday ruled 2-1 that President Trump’s National Guard deployment to the Los Angeles area last year was unlawful. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Trump’s assertion that violent demonstrations in the city protesting his immigration crackdown justified him wresting control of the troops from Gov. Gavin...The Hill15h agoWhole story →JusticeSecurity
Ex-FBI officials charged with lying to Congress about Hunter Biden probeTwo former FBI officials are facing charges for lying to Congress about their involvement in the agency’s investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop. Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, who worked in the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) in 2019 and 2020, were taken into custody Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on...The Hill15h agoWhole story →JusticeSecurity
Feds knocking on doors to question voters' immigration status: CBSWe need to protect eligible Americans’ right to vote without fear. If the administration believes it can win voters over, the answer is policy and persuasion, not tactics that risk making people afraid to exercise their fundamental right.The Hill15h agoWhole story →Justice
Federal government stopped sharing information in Good, Pretti killings, Minnesota officials sayMinnesota officials said the Department of Justice (DOJ) has stopped sharing evidence related to the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by immigration officers earlier this year. Minnesota officials said in a court filing reviewed by The Associated Press that the federal government stopped sharing evidence related to the two shooting deaths during…The Hill16h agoWhole story →Justice
Cognitive surrender: Artificial intelligence’s threat to democracyWesleyan University computer science professor Sebastian Zimmeck argues that artificial intelligence poses a threat to democratic citizenship by encouraging cognitive surrender and requiring both individual critical thinking and robust regulatory oversight to protect personal agency.The Hill16h agoWhole story →JusticeTechnology
Justice Department sues to block Alaska results if Sullivan losesThe Trump administration has filed a lawsuit that aims to block certification of the Senate election in Alaska if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses his reelection bid. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the district of Alaska, argues that a win for Democrat Mary Peltola could be blocked by the...The Hill17h agoWhole story →JusticeGovernment
Wall Street Journal editorial board hits Marshall for backing Social Security tax increaseThe Wall Street Journal editorial board on Thursday took GOP Sen. Roger Marshall (Kan.) to task for backing an elimination of the cap on income subject to Social Security taxes. Marshall, the Journal editorial board wrote, is in “favor of what would be one of the largest peacetime tax increases in recent decades” by advocating...The Hill18h agoWhole story →Economy
Ty Cobb predicts Trump will likely skip deposition, dismiss BBC lawsuitFormer White House attorney Ty Cobb said President Trump would likely skip a mandated deposition or walk out in the middle, which he predicted would lead to the eventual dismissal of the president's lawsuit against the BBC. Cobb joined CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday night after a judge said Trump must sit for a deposition...The Hill18h agoWhole story →JusticeCulture
Congress should reassert its role in trade policy after the midtermsAlong with higher oil prices associated with the Iran war, Trump’s tariffs are highly unpopular with the electorate.The Hill19h agoWhole story →PlanetEconomy
Could Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court expansion push backfire on Democrats?Hillary Clinton is calling on Democrats to add four new justices to the Supreme Court if they take power. But is she giving Republicans a potent campaign issue? Plus, a look at the unrest gripping France and what it could mean for the U.S. as a whole. Finally, the latest from the midterms, the DOJ...The Hill20h agoWhole story →Justice
We analyzed Judge Reyes’s record in Trump cases. Here’s what we foundThe Trump administration wants to boot U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes from the battle over East Potomac Golf Links, insisting she has shown open hostility. President Trump called her a “crazed lunatic” on social media. The appointee of former President Biden has been assigned nearly a dozen lawsuits challenging major Trump administration actions, The…The Hill22h agoWhole story →JusticeTechnology
Inside the unlikely coalition taking on prediction marketsA fight over who can regulate prediction markets and whether they constitute gambling is creating strange bedfellows, as the two sides dig in for a protracted legal battle with millions of dollars at stake. The commercial gaming industry finds itself aligned with tribal gaming and unions, as they argue states and tribes should be able...The Hill22h agoWhole story →JusticeEconomy
