CHARLEROI — For 132 years, the sound of the factory air whistle signaling the start of the work day at the plant along 8th and McKean Avenue in this Washington County borough meant all the things we associate with work: men and women had jobs, families had food on their table, the societal fabric was […]
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for comments he made Wednesday about autism. In a Wednesday press conference on a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kennedy said that “autism destroys families.” “More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which [is] our children,”...
Congress has passed a budget resolution that includes extending expiring tax cuts for middle- and upper-income taxpayers, border security funding, and reducing the deficit by $1.5 trillion over ten years, but the Senate's budget resolution has been criticized for not complying with the president's deficit reduction promises.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has stated that the country is facing a "crisis across the board" due to President Trump's policies, calling it an assault on the democratic way of life, the economy, Social Security, healthcare, and democracy.
The Supreme Court scheduled a rare May oral argument on the Trump administration’s emergency request to narrow a series of nationwide blocks on President Trump’s executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship. The administration has not yet asked the justices to settle the constitutionality of Trump’s order but has asked the high court to rein in...
President Trump on Thursday argued he would be able to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell if he wanted to, ratcheting up his criticism of the leader of the central bank. “Oh, he’ll leave. If I ask him to, he’ll be out of there,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I don't think he’s...
A crushing "spiral of silence" keeps Americans from discussing the threat of climate change, a new study has found. The findings, published on Thursday in PLOS Climate, highlight a dynamic that cuts to the heart of the country’s failure to take significant action to slow climate change. “When we don't hear an opinion, or we don't hear our thoughts out there,...
A group of House lawmakers launched a probe Thursday into 23andMe's handling of customers' sensitive data following the company's filing for bankruptcy last month. In a letter to 23andMe, House Commerce and Energy Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) and Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) and Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) asked the company to state its data privacy...