Last week, President Joe Biden commemorated George Floyd‘s death with several social media postings and a statement released by the White House. He repeated the anecdote about meeting Floyd’s daughter since he’s been president. “The day before George Floyd’s funeral, his young daughter Gianna told me, ‘Daddy changed the world,'” Biden said. “Four years after […]
Hot off the heels of his wildly successful Netflix series The Gentlemen, filmmaker Guy Ritchie’s latest project is effectively his version of a James Bond film, set amid World War II. An adaptation of Damien Lewis’s 2014 nonfiction book about Operation Postmaster, the film features Ian Fleming, a British intelligence officer in 1942, conspiring with Prime Minister […]
For 3 1/2 years, the Biden White House has seemed remarkably leakproof. Even amid popular backlash to administration policies — the spending splurge in 2021 that was followed by sharp inflation in 2022 and 2023, the changes in enforcement of immigration laws that have produced numbers of incoming illegal immigrants unmatched even in border boom […]
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ron Wyden (D-Oreg.) are scrutinizing a data analytic firm over concerns the services it provides to insurance companies are leaving patients with "sky-high medical bills." The senators issued a letter last week to Travis Dalton, president and CEO of the healthcare data analytics firm MultiPlan, stating their concerns over reports...
Less Americans are planning to donate to political campaigns compared to 2020, according to a new survey from LendingTree. According to the survey, 26 percent of Americans are intending to give to a political campaign this year. In comparison, 36 percent of Americans said they were planning to give money to a political campaign in...
Former President Trump on Wednesday praised Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for his refusal to recuse himself from upcoming cases related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021, after it was reported that flags connected to the “Stop The Steal” effort were flown outside his homes. "Congratulations to United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel...
Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a large amount of lithium located in Pennsylvania, saying it could eventually supply more than a third of America's needs for the mineral. Researcher and study lead author Justin Mackey told CBS Pittsburgh in an article published Wednesday that the wastewaters of the Marcellus Shale gas wells...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is emphasizing the need for federal legislation that would add protections around the spread of nonconsensual artificial intelligence (AI) deepfake pornography. In a Tuesday video, Ocasio-Cortez underscored the need for protections, like the bipartisan Defiance Act she is leading in the House, amid a rise in AI-generated nonconsensual porn of...