FEMA Director Deanne Criswell on Tuesday blasted an agency supervisor who directed emergency workers to avoid making contact with Florida homes with Donald Trump signs, and said she will ask her inspector general to see how deep the problem goes.
Republicans who campaigned against "woke" policies that allow biological males into women's restrooms are suddenly facing the issue head-on, now that the nation's first transgender House lawmaker is about to be sworn in.
The House task force investigating the two assassination attempts on President-elect Donald Trump has subpoenaed two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employees to testify.
A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee who was fired for allegedly telling Florida relief workers to skip homes that displayed signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump insisted she was "framed" in the scandal.
Bank lending is jet fuel for the U.S. economic engine. It is one of the primary sources of capital enabling companies to expand and consumers to obtain loans for homes and cars. But, the Federal Reserve is pushing a measure that would needlessly cut into lending by forcing banks to hold more capital in reserve. Every excess dollar parked in reserve means many fewer […]
AMONG DEMOCRATS, POST-HARRIS RECRIMINATIONS HEAT UP. It’s been just three weeks since Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the presidential election. The news has been consumed with Trump’s Cabinet picks and plans for a second administration. But among Democrats, there is more than that to talk about. Recriminations and finger-pointing in the wake of Harris’s loss […]
Marvel’s latest series, Agatha All Along, an offshoot of WandaVision (itself an offshoot of The Avengers), distills the worst cliches of modern entertainment into an unwatchable slog, dragging what could have been an hour’s worth of plot across nine excruciating episodes. The story follows Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), a witch stripped of her powers in WandaVision, now on a quest […]
Did anyone expect, when they heard the candidate’s announcement at the base of the Trump Tower escalator in June 2015, that nine years later, he would be elected to a second term with sharp increases in Republican percentages from nonwhite people — Latinos especially, but also black and Asian people? Opponents and commentators blandly call […]