On March 28, the International Olympic Committee made a proposal to allow Russian athletes to compete in the Paris Olympics under a neutral flag as long as they did not explicitly support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In view of past strong objections to its proposal, the committee offered to establish a screening panel, which would determine compliance and exclude those associated with the military.
The Washington Post, as of Monday morning, has four articles on its website about the child pornography arrest of Patrick Wojahn, the mayor of College Park, Maryland. Wojahn resigned in disgrace last month.
Consuming lithium-contaminated tap water during pregnancy could be associated with an increased risk of newborn autism development, according to a new study from the University of California, Los Angeles. By cross-checking lithium levels in Danish public waterworks with the country’s extensive civil data on pregnancy and psychiatric disorders, the researchers found that as lithium concentrations...
House Democrats have identified 31 Republican-held districts and two open Democratic-held districts as critical battlegrounds to reclaiming the House majority in next year's elections. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) released its list of “Districts In Play” Monday, detailing its strategy ahead of 2024. The list follows the DCCC in March naming 29 incumbent House...
Two House Democrats are calling on budget appropriators to double President Biden's request for funding to process immigrant application backlogs. Reps. Luis Correa (D-Calif.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) wrote a letter to Reps. David Joyce (R-Ohio) and Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the chairman and top Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, in support of President...
OPEC+, the cartel of the Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries plus Russia and a few others, had scheduled a virtual meeting for April 3. On March 28, Bloomberg reported that “OPEC+ shows no sign of changing oil output at a meeting next week.” Well, guess what? On April 2, Saudi Arabia announced a...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is offering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) a piece of advice before he launches a widely expected White House bid: “Talk to all the press.” “I think journalism is really important ... And I think our First Amendment and freedom of the press is something that we have to protect...
A majority of Americans in a new poll approve of the recent indictment of former President Trump, but they also said they think politics played at least some part in it, as Trump and his allies knock the case as politically motivated. A CNN poll found that 60 percent of American respondents approve of the...