Recent Republican attacks on the business community, including its leading advocacy group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, arguably contributed to a poor showing in the 2022 midterm elections. They are not the path to success in the presidential and congressional elections in 2024.
The brutal killing of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s notorious morality police in September 2022 sparked protests all over the country. The scope and scale of these demonstrations prompted some pundits to call it a women-led revolution. A CNN contributor concluded that the clerical regime may be at a point of no return, and the current protests transcend Iran’s many social and ethnic divisions.
The immigration crisis at the border is partly a result of gang violence in Latin America. At one point, El Salvador had become so lawless that a large percentage of its population fled in fear of extortion and death at the hands of El Salvador's brutal street gangs, MS-13 and Barrio 18.
Story at a glance In 2021, the U.S. spent 17.8 percent of GDP on health care, nearly double the average of 9.6 percent for high income countries, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. Health care spending per capita in the U.S. was three or four times greater than for countries like South...
Fertility rates in the U.S. increased in 2021 for the first time since 2014, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The general fertility rate in 2021 was 56.3 births per 1,000 women in the 15 to 44-year-old age range, a 1 percent increase over 2020 numbers. This is...
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) was selected to head a new leadership arm for House Democrats on Monday, giving the congressman an elevated position in the caucus after he stepped down from his top post at the end of the last Congress. Hoyer — who previously served as majority leader — will chair the Regional Leadership Council, a...
A grand jury in New Mexico has indicted a former Republican candidate for state legislature on 14 criminal charges in relation to conspiring with and paying four men to shoot at the homes and businesses of elected officials, the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s office said in a statement Monday. Solomon Peña was arrested on Jan. 16...