Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that the TSA staffing crunch will worsen as long as Congress doesn't fund the Department of Homeland Security.
The federal government is pushing for the development of "nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses" across the U.S. that will reuse much of the spent fuel from nuclear reactors to generate additional energy and eliminate the need for a single, massive underground storage site for radioactive waste.
For years, America’s leading retailers have benefited from a little-known program that helps to resolve meritless patent disputes, called Inter Partes Review. Congress created the IPR process in 2012 to give businesses an efficient, expert, and cost-effective way to address weak patents that should never have been granted in the first place. Entities in the […]
Congress may soon inadvertently wreck Puerto Rico’s economy. Lawmakers are considering imposing European-style price controls on prescription drugs. That would cause American biotech companies to lose billions in revenue and inevitably force them to slash research and development budgets, cancel plans to build new factories, and lay off workers. One recent study estimates that the […]
When the United States was in the grips of the Great Depression, not only were people lacking in jobs and food, but also access to natural resources. Just two months after assuming office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Tennessee Valley Authority Act. The government-owned corporation currently supplies electric power to seven states. In its early years, […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at airports is likely to get "much worse," as the partial government shutdown hits Day 41. "I think you’re going to see more TSA agents, as we come to Thursday, Friday, Saturday of next week, they’re going to quit or they’re not going...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday criticized the Trump administration’s plan to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to airports starting Monday. “The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill...
Smartphone ownership and constant connectivity are now assumed. Apps, mobile wallets and digital IDs — often available only through smartphones or smartwatches — are increasingly required to access public services.
White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers will not be directly involved in security measures at airports, a day before agency officials will begin assisting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees. “Wherever we can provide extra security, I don't see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine,...
Retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) ripped President Trump's threats against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in recent weeks, amid escalating tensions over the conflict in the Middle East. "The president of the United States cannot withdraw from NATO," Tillis told ABC's Jonathan Karl in a Sunday interview on "This Week." "Now, having said...