Pummeled by the wave of illegal immigrants swamping his city, Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams rallied with migrants Thursday to demand the Biden administration speed up the process of issuing them work permits, figuring the way to get them off the public dole is to find them jobs.
The former law partner of a Virginia legislator who recently retired to become a judge handily won a special election Tuesday to fill the vacant southwest Virginia seat in the House of Delegates, according to state results.
The Biden administration on Thursday said it's spending $450 million in the fight against drug overdoses, doling out dollars for rural communities, data collection and a fentanyl-awareness campaign as fentanyl kills tens of thousands of Americans despite years of Washington efforts to tackle the problem.
The White House said Thursday that Congress should pass a short-term funding measure to ensure the government keeps operating after the current budget year ends Sept. 30.
Across three different homes, my backyards have generally had a play set with a slide. Because my children often played on these slides and monkey bars with just their siblings or a handful of friends, they developed habits that might count as a bit antisocial on a packed public playground: My kids might climb up a slide that some other kids were about to come down, or they might take their time going down the slide, inconveniencing everyone behind them.
Supermarkets in San Francisco may have their merchandise under lock and key because Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tolerates shoplifting, but Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has the exact opposite message for would-be looters in the wake of Hurricane Idalia.
After finally declining in June, giving the Federal Reserve hopes of pulling off a soft landing at last, one of the central bank's preferred inflation measures was back on a precipitous rise in July. Headline PCE inflation rose by 3.3% in the year ending in July, up from 3% in June. For the first time since January, core PCE inflation, perhaps the most important inflation measure for the Fed, increased to 4.2%, more than twice the Fed's maximum target of just 2% inflation on an annual basis.
Satellite images are showing the devastating impact Hurricane Idalia had on Florida's Big Bend area. Idalia made landfall just before 8 a.m. Wednesday morning in the Florida Big Bend as a Category 3 hurricane with 125 mph sustained winds. Idalia was downgraded to a Tropical storm by Wednesday afternoon. However, it continues to produce heavy...