Three and 1/2 years into Russia‘s full-scale war against Ukraine, Europe is still helping pay for it. Since the invasion, the European Union has imported more than €213 billion ($247 billion USD) worth of Russian energy supplies, according to data from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. That is more than the […]
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said the Minneapolis shooting suspect "never should have had access or been able to possess a firearm" given the shooter's apparent mental health issues. During an interview on ABC's "This Week," co-anchor Martha Raddatz asked Emmer about plans to prevent someone with mental health issues from enacting violence, to...
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is stepping back into the political arena as a crusader against partisan redistricting. Urging Californians to “terminate gerrymandering,” the former governor and Hollywood icon has joined the likes of former GOP Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), investor Charlie Munger and state GOP legislators in pushing back on the plan, which...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he is “very confident” in the passage of his and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) bill on files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Congress left town early without voting on your bipartisan bill, which would basically call for the release of all of the files...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday he does not “connect” autism and vaccines in the wake of five top officials’ exit at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The science has debunked links between autism and vaccines for more than 20 years,” NBC News’s Kristen Welker said on “Meet the Press.” “Oh no,...
A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official is sounding the alarm about Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his policies after resigning from his post last week. Former Director of the CDC's Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, resigned last Wednesday following the White House's...
The 10th test of the SpaceX Starship has been launched and by all accounts was wildly successful in meeting its objectives. What do the results tell us about the likelihood that NASA and its commercial and international partners will beat China back to the Moon? A recent article by Eric Berger in Ars Technica sent shockwaves through space...
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said in a Friday post on Substack that President Trump is facing “self-inflicted disaster” amid his global trade war. “One crucial thing to understand is that Trump is facing a completely self-inflicted disaster here,” Krugman said in the post. “He probably could have gotten Republicans in Congress to vote for insane...
If victims must rely on robust white-collar enforcement for compensation, the Department of Justice should refocus its efforts on serious misconduct rather than walk back enforcement altogether.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday “reaffirmed that the two countries were development partners" amid President Trump’s steep tariffs on India, according to a press release. According to a press release from Modi’s office, Xi and Modi had a meeting on Sunday in the Chinese city of Tianjin. The...
Taylor Greene’s plea to do more to reduce acute malnutrition, starvation and death should resonate with Americans across the political spectrum and by implication the federal government.
