FIRST ON FOX: Federal law enforcement has been manipulating the Suspicious Activity Report system to gain access to Americans’ financial information without warrants or probable cause, the House Judiciary Committee said Friday.
In his new, much-talked-about Atlantic essay, George Packer contends that journalists “will have a special challenge” in the era of President-elect Donald Trump. “We’re living,” he writes, “in a world where facts instantly perish upon contact with human minds.” For those unfamiliar with Packer’s work, he’s a celebrated author of numerous books, including one that […]
It’s pointless to rehash whether Donald Trump should be taken seriously or literally. Particularly when it comes to the former and future president’s economic policies. Rather, Trump’s words are best understood through a prism of the broader story about the markets and the broader U.S. economy. The Republican may toss out contradictory policy proposals, seemingly […]
Absurdly and inexcusably, votes are still being counted even though polls closed more than a month ago, on Nov. 5. You’d think a developed country such as ours, which sees itself as a beacon of democracy, could get Election Day right. But, no, we make a hash of it every time. We’ve escaped chaos now […]
The Biden administration is less than two months from its end, which cannot come soon enough. As a final insult to his staunchest defenders, those who long insisted he was a paragon of decency, President Joe Biden pardoned his convicted felon and all-around wastrel son Hunter. A more appropriate final chapter to his tenure, one […]
A new kind of tennis sport is slowly breaking out across the country. Created by tennis coach Nate Gross, “Spec Tennis” aims to find a midway point between the increasingly popular pickleball sport and conventional tennis. “I came up with Spec Tennis in 2016,” Gross explained to the Washington Examiner, “when I was looking for […]
The U.S. job market rebounded in November after a major slowdown, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The U.S. added 227,000 jobs last month and the jobless rate ticked slightly higher to 4.2 percent, marking a significant improvement from a weak October jobs report. The U.S. added just 24,000 jobs in October,...
BGR Group is bringing back Matt Hoffmann three years after he left the lobbying giant to become the Republican staff director for the House Financial Services Committee. As a principal and the new co-head of the firm’s financial services practice group, Hoffmann will focus on cryptocurrency and digital assets regulation, banking, capital markets and the...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Vice President Harris's running mate, reflected on the Democratic Party's loss in the presidential election, saying he was "a little surprised" by the outcome. “It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way,"...