A woman twice showed up uninvited at Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff's $8 million Malibu home, prompting security to call the sheriff late Friday evening.
Philadelphia has enough problems with rampant poverty, a corrupt city government, soaring gun violence, and homicides. These are real issues that need resolutions; people's lives depend on them. So, it's particularly concerning when some of the city's Democratic mayoral candidates focus on make-believe nonissues solely to appeal to radical LGBT enthusiasts. One of the Democrats running for mayor, Rebecca Rhynhart, former city controller, tweeted that "drag queens are under attack."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is known for her demagoguery and spreading misinformation. She's one of the figureheads of the Biden administration and is responsible for stretching the truth to defend much of President Joe Biden's words and actions. So, it should come as no surprise when Jean-Pierre took an extremist left-wing position regarding the shooting at a Christian school located in Nashville, Tennessee, this week — despicable as her words may be.
The Securities and Exchange Commission exists in order to regulate the financial sector and publicly traded companies in order “ to promote fair dealing, the disclosure of important market information, and to prevent fraud,” according to the federal government.
Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the conscription of an additional 147,000 soldiers on Thursday. That number is an increase of 9% over last year's spring conscription decree.
Underlining Russian President Vladimir Putin's growing sense that he can and should escalate against U.S. interests, Russia's domestic security service, the FSB, has arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. The journalist was detained in Yekaterinburg, 870 miles east of Moscow.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing with the Council of the District of Columbia on Wednesday was interesting. Council members faced tough questions on public safety, particularly in view of an upsurge in overall crime and homicides in the nation's capital.
President Joe Biden threw House Democrats under the bus again this week when he announced that he would not veto a Republican bill immediately ending the COVID state of emergency.
Buried in Jerome Powell's comparatively banal announcement that the Federal Reserve would be raising interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point came the real revelation. Even after the spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, not one voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee anticipates interest rates falling below 4% next year or 3% in 2025.
