(Headline USA) The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring with a bang.
The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%.
Hiring far exceeded the 65,000 jobs that forecasters had expected, according to a poll by FactSet. Labor Department...
(Headline USA) Federal regulators are opening an investigation into whether Tesla’s new steering-wheel-free taxis comply with safety rules, a day after the company began offering rides in the vehicles.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was looking into whether Tesla was in full compliance with federal rules when it...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that he was “extremely skeptical” of Iranian media reports that the US bombed a wedding in Iran on Tuesday, despite overwhelming evidence from other sources that the US was responsible.
“I’ve been briefed to the extent that I know that we’re...
(Headline USA) U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.”
The strikes — a day after U.S. President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as “small...
(Headline USA) Police fatally shot a knife-wielding man walking on the cables of New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge after he ignored orders to drop the weapon, authorities said Friday. The shooting happened when he moved within feet of an officer trying to help him climb down.
The shooting at one of...
(Headline USA) Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued under North Carolina's homewrecker law over her relationship with a member of her security detail, a judge ruled Friday.
Sinema has acknowledged having a romantic relationship with Matthew Ammel but argued that she can't be sued in North Carolina because she...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former FBI lead electronics technician who illegally funneled at least $350,000 in government contracts to his sister’s companies has avoided prison. Instead, he and his sister both received probation and were fined $8,000 apiece.
The former FBI technician, Jeffrey Spencer, and his sister, DOJ contractor...
(Headline USA) The closely watched case of the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children was on the verge of being declared a mistrial Friday — but there was still one more dramatic moment to come.
After weeks of grueling testimony, the jury could not get beyond an impasse...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Despite a backlog of legislative responsibilities, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has canceled the final two weeks of the September legislative session.
That leaves House lawmakers only one more week of business before the midterm elections. The chamber won’t reconvene until mid-November.
While Johnson justified...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Billionaire investor Leon Black skipped a sworn deposition before House investigators on Thursday and asked a federal judge instead to void the two subpoenas the Oversight Committee served on him in June.
His complaint landed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A bombshell report published Aug. 31 in the Columbia Journalism Review accused New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani of using tax dollars to recruit an army of social media influencers to push his socialist policies through a series of social campaigns.
The apparent pay-for-play arrangement is concerning, as...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Researcher Steven Camarota told lawmakers Tuesday that as many as 300,000 babies were born on American soil to visiting foreigners over the past 10 years, according to Breitbart. Camarota, who directs research at the Center for Immigration Studies, delivered the figures before a House Oversight...