Polls suggest that Democrats might return to power in Congress, winning both the House and the Senate. If so, California is a warning about what deep-blue control looks like.
President Trump announced Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that eliminate an electric vehicle (EV) mandate introduced under the Biden administration. The 2024 EV mandate aimed to facilitate the transition from gas-powered to EVs by setting new pollution standards for automakers' vehicle fleets, which were intentionally difficult to meet without introducing new electric or...
Former Kennedy Center employees accused the iconic performing arts venue's leadership in a letter to Congress of halting planned waterproofing repairs earlier this year. In the Thursday letter, David Seide, an attorney representing the whistleblowers, shared internal documents which he said challenged the Kennedy Center board's claims that these leaks constituted the venue's immediate closure. ...
President Trump rejected a new seven-day proposal from Iran Saturday morning to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt military operations in the ongoing conflict between Tehran and the U.S. “They want to make a deal, and I think that’s fine,” the president told reporters at the White House. “I like making a deal, too, but...
Pollsters and independent handicappers are increasingly convinced that Democrats aren’t experiencing an artificial “sugar-high” in polling but that multiple metrics are right now pointing to a good midterm environment for the party. The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report became the latest independent forecaster this week in predicting that Republicans looked poised to lose the...
The proportion of Americans with “poor diet quality” has decreased from about 49 percent to 37 percent, according to a new study. The study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine this week, found that between 1999 and 2020, “the proportion of U.S. adults with poor diet quality decreased from 48.8% to 37.4%,” an 11.4 percent...
The Milwaukee Common Council passed an ordinance outlining the dozens of items to be banned in a restricted event area surrounding the Republican National Convention. The Wisconsin city, set to host the convention from July 15-18 at the Fiserv Forum, expects the event to draw more than 50,000 additional visitors to Milwaukee within a two-week...
Nvidia has surpassed Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company. The chipmaker’s market capitalization rose to $3.34 trillion on Tuesday, just eclipsing Microsoft, which is valued at $3.32 trillion. The latest milestone for Nvidia comes less than two weeks after it crossed the $3 trillion mark for the first time and surpassed Apple as...
Banking regulators have been dragging their heels on finalizing rules set up to dampen the effect of another potential financial crisis like the one in 2008, and they need to hop to it, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday. The regulations, known as the Basel III endgame, would...
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort by Democrats to pass a ban on bump stocks in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning a Trump-era federal prohibition on the devices. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the author of the BUMP Act, brought his proposal up for unanimous consent, but Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) blocked...
A Senate hearing Tuesday on the origins of the COVID-19 virus explored the foremost theories, with lawmakers and witnesses exchanging arguments over which one they believed. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs heard from four scientific experts on what the current information suggests about the beginnings of SARS-CoV-2. The natural origins theory,...
Former President Trump will stay in Milwaukee for the upcoming Republican National Convention, his campaign confirmed, batting down reports the former president intended to spend the night at his Chicago property and commute to the Wisconsin city for the event. A Trump campaign spokesperson denied reporting from ABC7 in Chicago that Trump was planning to stay at...
Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) called on her party to stop sowing doubt in the integrity of elections and warned of the damage it causes to public servants and democratic institutions, in an op-ed in an Arizona-based news outlet Tuesday. “It's time for Arizona Republicans to pull back from the brink of election denialism...
Jeff Bezos is backing the new CEO of the Washington Post and the editor he chose to lead its newsroom amidst widespread internal backlash among staff over the two hires. Bezos, the billionaire tech mogul who has owned the Post since 2013, wrote to top editors on Tuesday expressing support for CEO Will Lewis and...
