President Biden will award the Medal of Honor to a Black Vietnam War veteran who twice disobeyed orders to abandon his team, ultimately rescuing each member, the White House announced Wednesday.
Senate Democrats could throw a lifeline to embattled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg next week during a congressional hearing when lawmakers will question the head of Norfolk Southern Railway over the recent Ohio train derailment.
Sen. Tom Cotton challenged the Biden administration's more lenient asylum policies Wednesday, saying the U.S. is now allowing people to claim protection if they come from countries that are, on the whole, safer than some major American cities.
The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that the mysterious, neurological affliction known as Havana Syndrome that has struck American diplomats, military personnel and intelligence officials is most likely not the result of attacks by foreign adversaries.
Four years ago, Paul Vallas finished toward the bottom of the pack in a crowded race for Chicago mayor. Trying again on Tuesday, focused this time on crime, he was the top vote getter, toppling the incumbent mayor and advancing to an April runoff to lead one of the country's largest cities.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her reelection bid in humiliating fashion on Tuesday, obtaining only 17.1% of the vote and finishing in third place. She is the first incumbent Chicago mayor to lose reelection in 40 years, as many voters blamed her for the city's surge in violence. Many questioned her gravitas and overall effectiveness as mayor, especially when she posted dancing videos on TikTok. She seemingly did nothing to address the city's record-breaking homicides and other violent crimes.
Contrary to the narrative that snowflake millennials caused the "Great Resignation," keeping the labor market artificially tight, a new study from financiers at the University of British Columbia determined that almost all of the drop-off from the labor force since the start of the pandemic came from boomers who cashed in on the Federal Reserve propping up the housing market.
It should be unsurprising that California was home to one of the worst pandemic recoveries for a major metropolitan area. It is even less surprising that the area is San Francisco.
When Palestinians and others chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," they are essentially calling for a genocide against the Israeli population. After all, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea constitutes most of the state of Israel.