For a second month in a row, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has provided evidence that inflation has actually and meaningfully begun to slow for the first time since last year. After holding constant in May, the consumer price index in June actually fell by a tenth of a percentage point, bringing the CPI inflation […]
Most U.S. adults say an unwillingness among some to accept election outcomes is a “major problem for America,” according to a poll released Thursday. In the Monmouth University poll, conducted June 6-10, 58 percent of U.S. adults agree with this assessment — including 74 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents. Among Republican respondents,...
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) does not believe President Biden’s press conference after the NATO summit will be “political salvation” for his reelection campaign. "Neither the press conference tonight nor the NBC interview on Monday evening will offer the President the political salvation he seems to be seeking," Torres said in a post to the social...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday predicted Democrats will force President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race and will nominate Vice President Harris or former first lady Michelle Obama to replace him at the top of the party's ticket. "I put the odds at about 80 percent [Democrats] dump [Biden], and if and when...
CNN anchor Jake Tapper is demanding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign remove an ad from social media that manipulates footage from news broadcasts falsely portraying them boosting his candidacy. The ad, published Wednesday evening, is deceptively edited to show leading cable news hosts such as Tapper, Dana Bash, MSNBC's Joy Reid and others saying Democrats...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) gave a terse "no" on Thursday when pressed on whether President Biden will hurt the Democrats’ efforts to seize control of the House. The Democratic leader's comments came ahead of Biden's high-stakes press conference to close the NATO summit in Washington, as tensions continue to build within the caucus...
Pfizer announced Thursday plans to move forward with an oral daily weight loss medication in the same drug category as treatments including Ozempic and Zepbound. The pharmaceutical giant said clinical evaluation of once-daily doses of its oral GLP-1 agonist candidate danuglipron demonstrated "encouraging" data. Dose optimization studies are planned. Pfizer had been looking into a...
A pair of Oversight Committee Democrats are asking a government watchdog to investigate the amount of federal funding directed toward crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), anti-abortion nonprofits designed to convince people not to terminate pregnancies. In a letter sent Thursday to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and shared first with The Hill, ranking member Rep. Jamie...
Journalists, songwriters and other artists would be given control over whether their content is used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems under a new bipartisan bill introduced Thursday in the Senate. The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act, or COPIED Act, would require platforms that develop or share AI...