President Biden is set to deliver his second State of the Union address after a year marked by both triumphs and challenges. The president has consistently struggled with poor approval ratings and high inflation numbers in the last year, but also saw a higher number of Democrat victories than expected in the 2022 midterm elections...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday left a meeting with President Biden signaling optimism about the chances of an agreement between the White House and Congress to avoid a government default, though neither side made any commitments. “I don’t want to put any words in his mouth. We had an hour of conversation about this...
The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would force executive agencies to end teleworking policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, ordering the entities to revert back to plans in place in 2019. The legislation — titled the Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems (SHOW UP) Act — passed in a 221-206 vote. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the...
A district judge granted a request from the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday to block FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried from contacting current and former employees and using encrypted messaging apps as conditions of his release. New York District Judge Lewis Kaplan set a hearing for next Tuesday to discuss the terms of Bankman-Fried's release,...
Twenty years ago today, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart 16 minutes before it was scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The seven astronauts on board would never make it back home. The anniversary is the culmination of a week-long period of pain and remembrance for NASA as three of its most...
The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday passed a bill that would immediately end the COVID-19 national emergency first declared in March 2020, brushing aside the Biden administration’s announcement that the declaration would expire in May. The joint resolution cleared the House in a party-line 229-197 vote. The measure, which spans just over one page, would terminate...
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday designed to keep firearms from the hands of violent people — a wildly popular idea that has virtually no chance of moving in the GOP-controlled House. Sponsored by Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), the bill would require background checks for essentially all gun...
The family of Tyre Nichols has finally laid their son to rest. Nichols’s funeral opened with a viewing of his black casket, covered with white flowers, at the front of the pulpit. Four musicians playing African drums dressed in all white moved slowly up the aisle of the church pews as they — and those...
As the Federal Reserve has embarked on a series of interest rate hikes that threaten to throw the economy into a recession, it is time we rethink how we fight inflation. Monetary policy, the actions taken by the central banks, has been the dominant tool for economic stabilization in the United States for the past...