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Proxy advisory firms, such as ISS, are wielding undue influence over corporate board decisions, often rejecting highly qualified Latino candidates in favor of activist investors, perpetuating the very inequities that diversity initiatives are supposed to address.

NASA announced Saturday that Boeing’s Starliner had landed in New Mexico even though its crew remains on the International Space Station. The Starliner touched down at 12 a.m. ET at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, completing Boeing’s crew flight test. The two test pilots have been left in space and deemed to come...

Mark Geragos, an attorney for Hunter Biden, said Friday that the president’s son pleaded guilty in his federal tax case due to him not wanting to put his family through the "parade" that a trial could bring. “He pled open because … his defense was eviscerated, and he did not want to further put his...

Ex-federal prosecutor Thomas Dupree on Friday weighed the impact of election results on former President Trump’s hush money case sentencing, which will happen in late November. “I think in New York, for my perspective, I think the judge will not be able to sentence him to an immediate term of incarceration,” Dupree told NewsNation’s Blake...

Ian Sams, a spokesperson for Vice President Harris's campaign, took a slight swing at Fox News anchor Dana Perino during an interview Friday. “Is it a risk to put all your chips on one debate, when she hasn’t really been able to do any sort of Q and A with anybody, except for in debate...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who made history by becoming the first Black woman to sit on the high court, revealed in a recent interview that her claim to fame could have actually come much earlier. While studying at Harvard University, Jackson was paired up with actor Matt Damon in her drama class. The...

A Canadian resident was arrested this week over a terror plot against a Jewish Center in New York City that was planned for Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of Hamas's initial attack on Israel which sparked the ongoing war in Gaza. The plotter, according to the Justice Department (DOJ), was a supporter of the Islamic...

Who should be held accountable — and for what — when a child commits a serious crime?

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Sanders: Steward bankruptcy Senate hearing will go forward The hearing will go forward next Thursday even if the CEO defies a congressional subpoena to testify, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Friday. © The Hill, Greg Nash The Senate...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story US presses Israel after American citizen shot dead in West Bank A 26-year-old Turkish American activist was shot in the head during an anti-settlement protest near the city of Nablus. © AFP via Getty White House...

House Republicans on Friday unveiled their highly anticipated plan to avert a government shutdown that is sure to upset Democrats and has already drawn skepticism from some in the GOP. The 46-page plan would keep the government funded into March 2025, while tacking on language for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting, setting the stage for...

Republican strategist Karl Rove indicated Friday that allowing sentencing to proceed in former President Trump's New York hush money case could have given Trump a boost in the polls. “I also agree with the notion that was offered up by several other of … your analysts. And that is, that if he had gone forward...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story World sees record hot summer for second consecutive year Summer temperatures broke records again in 2024, according to the European Union agency that tracks global warming. © Getty Newly released data from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service found that June and August were...

The intelligence community has determined that no foreign adversary has yet attempted to impede government efforts to carry out the 2024 election, even as they otherwise seek to amplify U.S. divisions. “Our assessment is that it would be very difficult for foreign actors to manipulate election processes at a large enough scale to impact the...

Former President Trump on Friday accepted the endorsement of the nation’s largest police union and indicated he would pursue policies in a second term to bolster police immunity and encourage the use of controversial practices such as stop and frisk. Trump addressed a gathering of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) national board of trustees,...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Treasury recovers $1.3B in unpaid taxes from wealthy Americans The Treasury Department has stepped up efforts to recover unpaid taxes from high-income Americans. © Getty Images In February, the IRS launched its plan to pursue 125,000...

The Biden administration has taken the penultimate step in designating a new marine sanctuary off California’s coast. The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary would recognize the Indigenous Chumash people’s connection to the region.  Originally proposed by Fred Collins, the leader of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, the site would be the first Indigenous-proposed national...

Democratic strategist James Carville said Wednesday that the only way the members of the GOP can get their party back is "through a blowout" of former President Trump in November. MSNBC's Ari Melber asked Carville what he thought about a report from Politico that suggested some Republicans would be "OK" with the former president losing...

Former President Trump on Wednesday made another stab at trying to delay his criminal sentencing, now two weeks away. Trump is hoping to move his hush money case from state to federal court, but U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected the effort in a ruling issued Tuesday. The former president’s attorneys are newly asking Hellerstein to...

New York City public schools will utilize a new Black Studies curriculum this fall, spanning pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. The coursework was created by Columbia University Teachers College’s Black Education Research Center. The curriculum was funded by the New York City Council, known as the Education Equity Action Plan (EEAP).  The curriculum, which was already...

Former President Trump on Wednesday attended what was billed as a town hall event moderated by Fox News host Sean Hannity, where he lambasted Vice President Harris during a friendly interview in the critical battleground of Pennsylvania. Trump took part in the town hall, which was taped earlier in the evening, after initially proposing a...

Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he plans to do swing state rallies with former President Trump, continuing his presence on the campaign trail to ensure the GOP nominee gets back into the White House. Kennedy, who suspended his White House run in late August, said he would be campaigning in...

Former President Trump and Vice President Harris have agreed to the rules set by ABC News for their first debate next week, the network announced Wednesday. ABC News will be hosting the next presidential debate between Trump and Harris on Sept. 10, and it will mark the first debate since President Biden dropped out of...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has allowed an increase in Vyvanse production of around 24 percent to help with the ADHD drug shortage nationwide.  The DEA greenlighted the spike in production following a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) request, according to a notice first reported by Bloomberg News. The FDA’s request came in July. ...