Story at a glance Almost 70 percent of Americans don’t think that new weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy will have much of an impact on the country’s obesity rate, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The U.S. obesity rate has climbed over the past 20 years, with about 42 percent...
Advanced weapons components of U.S. origin are being recovered from Russian bombs, drones, vehicles and munitions, experts told senators during a committee hearing Tuesday. These components, which James Byrne, director of open-source intelligence and analysis at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), calls the “brains” of the advanced weapons, are slipping through export controls and...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) fired back at Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) after the senator criticized New York City for its “crime and migrants.” “Hope @JoeBiden enjoyed going out for ice cream in NYC while the rest of the city is afraid of crime and migrants,” Tuberville posted on X, the platform formerly...
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee advanced President Biden’s Labor secretary nominee, Julie Su, on Tuesday in a party-line vote. Su, the current acting secretary since March of last year, got closer to securing her permanent role as the Labor secretary after the committee cleared her with an 11-10 vote during a...
Presented by AFPM — The organization, along with other trade groups, filed what's known as a "petition for rehearing" on the pause. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Oil lobby files challenge to LNG export permit pause The American Petroleum Institute, an oil and gas lobbying group, is petitioning to...
JR Majewski, a controversial congressional candidate, is potentially dropping out of the Ohio GOP House race just days after early voting began in the state. Majewski, an Air Force veteran, launched his second bid to oust Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) last April. He overcame a crowded primary field in 2022 and became the Republican nominee...
Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade’s former divorce lawyer, Terrence Bradley, testified on Tuesday that his text messages about the timeline of Wade’s romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) were mere speculation and not based on any facts. Bradley retook the stand Tuesday in a hearing to determine whether top prosecutors in former...
Both the Virginia state house and senate have passed legislation that would institute a "tech tax" on businesses in the state, which would expand sales tax to cover digital goods.