Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the strong-but-cooling labor market is a key factor helping to slow inflation in the United States. “The labor market’s cooling without there being any real distress associated with it,” Yellen told Bloomberg News in an interview on Tuesday. The U.S. labor market added 209,000 jobs in June, according to data...

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited Beijing on Tuesday to meet with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu, the defense ministry announced. The surprise visit marks the veteran diplomat’s first trip to Beijing since before the COVID-19 pandemic, and comes as tensions rise between the U.S. and China amid discussions of sanctions. Li said in...

The insidious feature of climate change is that there is no normal and there won’t be one anytime soon.

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin asserted that former President Trump is profiting off legal woes after the former president announced Tuesday he was notified he is a target in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Jan. 6 investigation. In a Truth Social post Tuesday morning, Trump said he received a target letter on...

The GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee voiced his concern Monday over the number of Republican votes against assistance for Ukraine during a marathon defense spending debate last week.  In the vote Thursday, 70 Republicans were in favor of an amendment from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to a defense policy bill, which would...

Former President Trump maintained a sizable lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in a New Hampshire primary poll released Tuesday, despite dropping several points in the key early voting state. The Granite State Poll found that 37 percent of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire said they would support Trump, while 23 percent...

A United Nations agency warned of an increased risk of heart attacks and deaths as the northern hemisphere reeled from heat waves Tuesday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the U.N.’s authority on weather and climate, said global temperatures have reached “unprecedented” levels within the last few weeks in a post on its website. According to...

The emergence of a viable third-party candidate is likely his only path to victory.

{beacon} 12:30 REPORT TALK OF THE MORNING Trump braces for charges related to Jan. 6 Capitol attack: © AP Photo/Lynne Sladky What a morning! Former President Trump says he's been alerted that he is a target of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation. The false election claims spurred Trump supporters to storm the Capitol, sending...

Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is much further away than billionaire Twitter CEO Elon Musk has predicted, according to experts before Congress.