Sen. Joni Ernst released a new list of dubious government spending Tuesday, questioning why federal taxpayers had to foot the bill for studies that trained pigs to play a video game or dolphins to use an underwater touchpad to try to tap out their thoughts.
President Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns, promote better and more secure firearms storage and ensure U.S. law enforcement agencies are getting the most out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer.
Iran’s judiciary chief said Monday that authorities have pardoned over 22,000 individuals who participated in anti-government protests, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Iranian judiciary head Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi said that a total of 82,656 prisoners had been pardoned, of which 22,628 had been detained during mass demonstrations over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa...
Just three in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents surveyed in a new poll say they think that the best days are still ahead for the United States. The CNN survey, taken earlier this month, found 70 percent of Republican respondents think America’s best days are in the past. It’s a sharp charge from September, 2019,...
The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.4 percent in February for an annual increase of 6 percent, right in line with what economists had been expecting, according to data released Tuesday by the Labor Department. The 6 percent annual inflation rate was the lowest yearly price increase since September 2021. Without food and energy...
You can learn a lot from Irish history. In the aftermath of the Easter Rebellion of 1916, the British unwisely executed several of the Irish rebels. What was initially seen by most Irish as the annoying action of fringe actors would become a romantic revolt that electrified an entire populace and would lead to the Irish Free State. The Biden administration...
China’s foreign ministry said Tuesday that the U.S., Australia and the United Kingdom are on a “wrong and dangerous path” after a deal was struck for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the U.S. “The latest joint statement issued by the U.S., U.K., and Australia shows that the three countries have gone further down the...
An advocacy group that opposes environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing on Tuesday launched a mobile billboard campaign around Washington, D.C., ahead of President Biden’s expected veto of legislation targeting the investment practice. Consumers’ Research, a leading anti-ESG group, is funding mobile billboards and a targeted digital ad campaign criticizing the use of the principles...