President Joe Biden announced the release of a million barrels of gasoline from government reserves on Tuesday in an effort he said would “lower prices at the pump when folks need it the most.” Not only is the amount being released so infinitesimally small that it won’t have any effect on gas prices, but the […]
In a span of eight months, Mexico has endured the assassination of 34 candidates for local offices. But in the telling of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, this spate of violence is nothing more than media “sensationalism.” For Obrador, there is no political liability. The incumbent president of Mexico is term-limited, and his successor will […]
Radio host Charlamagne tha God thinks the Biden administration has "handcuffed" Vice President Harris. Charlamagne, who recently called former President Trump a "threat to democracy," joined Brian Kilmeade for an interview on “Fox & Friends,” where they got into a back-and-forth conversation about Harris’s role in the administration and in the media. "The Breakfast Club"...
The advocacy group Americans for Contraception is launching a new ad campaign that highlights Republican opposition to expanded birth control access and pushes senators to vote for the Right to Contraception Act. According to an announcement from the group on Wednesday, the first wave features two ads running in the D.C. market between now and...
A bipartisan group of senators is demanding the Pentagon reveal military contractors' so-called “price gouging tactics” that they say can cost U.S. military billions of dollars every year in overpayments. In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Tuesday evening, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and John Fetterman (D-Pa.)...
Bird flu has been found in alpacas for the first time, marking the latest spread of the current H5N1 bird flu virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday. The infected alpacas were at a farm in Idaho, where the avian influenza virus was detected in poultry that has since been culled, the National...
There is bipartisan consensus in Congress that permitting reform is needed for energy production in the United States, and we have made significant progress. Now, it’s time to take the next step.
Donald Trump’s fate is out of his hands. A jury of 12 New Yorkers has begun deliberating in the former president’s hush money criminal case, holding the power to make Trump the first American president ever found guilty of a crime – or the first to be acquitted of one. The trial concluded Tuesday with...
Beth Hammack, a Goldman Sachs executive and longtime finance industry leader, will lead the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland as its next president and CEO, the central bank district announced Wednesday. Hammock will succeed Loretta Mester, who steps down June 30. She will officially become the twelfth president of the Cleveland Fed on Aug. 21,...