Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision Desk HQ, in what became a closer-than-expected race amid growing voter dissatisfaction over the direction of the city. Lee won the nonpartisan ranked-choice election over a field of more than a half dozen candidates, with…

A federal judge ordered that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained late last month, be transferred from a detention center in Louisiana to Vermont no later than at the start of next month. District Judge William Sessions ruled Friday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has until May 1 to move Ozturk,…

President Trump weighed in on the cost of eggs around the country, claiming Friday at the White House that the prices are “getting too low.” Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a “great” job and then asserted that egg prices are “down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that.” “You can have all…

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump budget proposes cutting heating assistance The Trump administration is considering cutting a program that helps low-income people heat and cool their homes. © Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A draft budget request document reviewed by The Hill calls for the elimination of the Low…

Probationary workers who were refired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected. The workers had expected their health insurance to run into May. Instead, they received notices this week that the department is backdating their termination to an earlier date, meaning the health insurance ran…