High fuel prices caused by the conflict in Iran threaten to worsen affordability issues that ordinary Americans face — and some economists are warning that a prolonged conflict could pull the U.S. into a recession. Oil prices have jumped in the wake of U.S. attacks on Iran. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at about $101 dollars...
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) endorsed state Rep. Micah Lasher (D), his former aide, in the Democratic primary in the Empire State’s 12th Congressional District. “We face extraordinary challenges both at home and abroad,” Bloomberg wrote Thursday on the social platform X. “At a moment like this, New Yorkers need representatives with...
Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) twin brother slammed the White House on Thursday over a video it sent out on the social platform X depicting the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran. “American service members are dead and you think this is all some big f---ing joke,” Scott Kelly, a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy...
Michael Allen, a GOP attorney general candidate, said he was “shocked" by a Democratic proposal to legalize prostitution, saying it would “open the floodgates" to human trafficking.
Former senator Joe Manchin accused John Cornyn of abandoning his longstanding support for the filibuster for political convenience, calling the reversal "deeply disappointing."