President Biden touted his efforts to support law enforcement and shared about the pain of loss during remarks at the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the Capitol. ... Read full Story
University of Oklahoma students are suing the school over alleged racial bias in financial aid, claiming violation of Equal Protection Clause. ... Read full Story
A bipartisan group of senators unveiled a new push on Wednesday to spend tens of billions each year on funding non-military AI research. ... Read full Story
As they prepare to debate next month, President Biden and Donald Trump are exhibiting signs of weakness in their 2024 election rematch – both struggle to lock up their base voters. ... Read full Story
The number of illegal immigrants evading Border Patrol as "gotaways" has skyrocketed under the Biden administration, new data obtained by Fox News shows. ... Read full Story
President Biden's offer to debate former President Trump came with significant strings attached, limiting the nature of the 2024 debates. ... Read full Story
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and a group of Republican senators are moving to overturn a new retirement investment planning rule that was finalized by the Labor Department last month. The Labor Department unveiled a new rule last month that would update the definition of an investment advice fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act... ... Read full Story
The Department of Justice (DOJ) told a federal judge Tuesday that Boeing violated a settlement that let it escape criminal prosecution following the two crashes of 737 Max aircraft a few years ago. The DOJ now has to figure out if it will file charges against the aviation giant, according to The Associated Press. According... ... Read full Story
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his mind was swayed against full-term abortion access after a contentious interview with Sage Steele last week. ... Read full Story
Democrat turned independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. charges that President Biden and former President Donald Trump “are trying to exclude me from their debate because they are afraid I would win." ... Read full Story
The New Jersey Senate is said to have cancelled a hearing slated to take place on Thursday for a bill that would define antisemitism in the state due to alleged “safety" concerns. ... Read full Story
The Oversight Project sued the SBA, claiming it failed to comply with records requests relating to a memo establishing coordination between the agency and Michigan's state elections arm. ... Read full Story
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reminded users of the H-1B visa that they have options to remain in the country if they are laid off or fired from their job. ... Read full Story
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is delivering a press briefing Wednesday afternoon. The Hill learned from a congressional source that President Biden is proceeding with a $1 billion arms shipment to Israel. The payload will include munitions and tactical vehicles. Not included will be 3,500 large bombs that Biden is holding back pending further... ... Read full Story
Rep. David Trone was mocked by critics for getting trounced in Maryland's Democrat Senate primary after spending $60 million of his own money on the race. ... Read full Story
House Speaker Mike Johnson floated the possibility of defunding Special Counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday, a week after he seemingly poured cold water on the idea. ... Read full Story
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is facing backlash over his musical performance at a bar in Kyiv, with some arguing it was inappropriate given Ukraine's ongoing war against Russia. Blinken, during a surprise visit Tuesday, performed a cover of “Rockin’ in the Free World” by Neil Young with a band at the Barman Dictat, a... ... Read full Story
Pro-life activists handed down "shocking" sentence of more than four years behind bars for staging a demonstration inside a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic in 2020. ... Read full Story
“In 2023, Royal Caribbean's bookings hit an all-time high ahead of the launch of its newest ship, the Icon of the Seas. Interest has yet to wane: The three strongest booking weeks in the company’s history were at the start of 2024 and ‘wave season,’ when cruise lines typically roll out flashy discounts to incentivize reservations.” — Brittany Chang, Business Insider, 20 Mar. 2024
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In her book Braiding Sweetgrass, scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, recounts some of the stories of her people surrounding Windigos, fearsome, shrieking monsters that prey on human flesh: “The Windigo is most powerful in the Hungry Times. With the warm breezes his power wanes.” Wane is a verb used when something—such as strength, power, or influence—decreases or diminishes, usually with the implication that the lessening is gradual, natural, or—as in the case of the Windigo—seasonal. Daylight wanes, as does summer. In a classroom, one’s attention may be said to wane if, minute by minute, one becomes more interested in watching birds through the window than following the points of the professor’s lecture. For centuries, wane has also been called upon to describe the seeming decrease in the size of the moon in the later phases of the lunar cycle. The traditional opposite of wane is wax, a once common but now rare synonym of grow. Wane and wax have been partnered in references to the moon since the Middle Ages.