An 11% increase in gas prices in August fueled a chilling surge in consumer price index inflation, which rose to 3.7% for the year ending last month. That's up from 3.2% in July and nearly twice the Federal Reserve's maximum inflation target of just 2% annually.
A federal judge issued a protective order on Wednesday in the Mar-a-Lago case, clearing the sharing of classified evidence as the Justice Department prosecutes former President Trump for mishandling government secrets. The order from Judge Aileen Cannon does not acknowledge a request from Trump to review those documents by re-designating a space in his home...
GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie is weighing in on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “endorsement” of former President Trump in his latest slew of attacks against the former president. “It’s good to see Vladimir Putin has made his endorsement official — and no surprise, he’s endorsed another autocrat,” Christie told The New York Times. Putin took aim at the...
A federal appellate court concluded Sept. 8 that multiple White House, Surgeon General, FBI and CDC officials likely breached the fine line separating permissible government persuasion and jawboning from illicit “coercion and significant encouragement” when they repeatedly — and often successfully — lobbied social-media companies “to remove disfavored content and accounts from their sites.”
A co-chair of the Senate’s Artificial Intelligence Caucus said Tuesday that while some members of Congress would like to see AI regulation passed by the end of this year, that timeline is unlikely. “I would like to have something that we can pass in this congress,” Sen. Martin Heinrich (D- N.M.) told Leigh Ann Caldwell...
Moderna revealed Wednesday that its flu vaccine using mRNA technology has offered promising results as the flu season begins to ramp up. Moderna announced that its seasonal flu vaccine “demonstrated an acceptable safety and tolerability profile” in all clinical trials, including its three Phase 3 trials. The company said that an improved immune response was observed...
A federal judge on Wednesday questioned a court security officer over a break jurors took outside shortly before delivering a guilty verdict last week in former Trump advisor Peter Navarro’s contempt of Congress case. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta called the hearing after Navarro attorney Stan Woodward moved for a mistrial just after the verdict...
Elections experts warn that two decades of hyperpartisan politics and close elections have put American democracy under “great stress” that boiled over during the last presidential election. Concerns of electoral legitimacy exploded after the 2020 election when former President Trump made false claims against the integrity of the election system and attempted to overturn the...
GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie, a Bruce Springsteen mega-fan, said his relationship with the music star has had its “ups and downs.” “We’ve had a very interesting journey,” Christie said of Springsteen to host Steve Scully at a SiriusXM town hall Tuesday at New Hampshire’s New England College. “Because Bruce is obviously a pretty liberal Democrat....
Rep. Mary Peltola’s (D-Alaska) husband has died in a plane accident in Alaska, her chief of staff announced Wednesday. “We are devastated to share that Mary’s husband, Eugene Peltola Jr.—‘Buzzy’ to all of us who knew and loved him—passed away earlier this morning following a plane accident in Alaska,” Peltola's chief of staff Anton McParland said in...