(Arthur Kane, The Center Square) Job perks like an on-call doctor, on-site daycare and millions of dollars for food, beverages and bottled water sound like something offered to employees of big tech firms.
But actually, taxpayers are paying for those perks for members of Congress and often their staff, an...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) For the 14th time, U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday filibustered Republicans’ funding bill to reopen the government, guaranteeing that the ongoing shutdown, now on its 35th day, will be the longest in U.S. history.
The government has remained closed since Oct. 1, after Democratic senators...
(Headline USA) A second monkey has been shot and killed and authorities said Tuesday that they were still searching for a third missing monkey a week after their escape from a truck that overturned on a Mississippi highway.
Someone shot the monkey after seeing it cross the highway on Monday evening...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, said in an interview with Bloomberg that US military “escalation” is the only way to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and confirmed that she is in contact with Trump administration officials.
When asked if...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) British news channel BBC “doctored” President Donald Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, to make it appear he called on supporters to riot at the Capitol before lawmakers certified the 2020 election.
The alteration was exposed in an internal memo first reported by British newspaper The Telegraph. The doctored footage...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan released documents directly undercutting claims by disgraced former FBI Director James Comey that his criminal indictment is part of President Donald Trump’s political vendetta.
The documents, filed on Monday by Halligan and her top deputy, Tyler Lemmons, revealed that Comey knew one...
(Headline USA) Dick Cheney, the neocon who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said...
(Arthur Kane, The Center Square) Spending on U.S. House of Representatives office accounts increased by more than 85% over the past three decades but nearly half of that occurred since 2020, an investigation by The Center Square found.
The Members' Representational Allowance (MRA) provides each of the 435 U.S. representatives...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Saturday threatened military intervention in Nigeria, saying the US may go into the country “guns-a-blazing” over allegations that the government isn’t doing enough to protect Christians from Islamist militants.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Tesla’s annual meeting is on Thursday, and a lot is on the line—including, potentially, billionaire Elon Musk’s position as company CEO.
Tesla shareholders are reportedly going to consider a plan that would give Musk nearly $1 trillion in stock, which would up his control of the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is seeking answers about why convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving preferential treatment in prison, and why her fellow inmates are being retaliated against for speaking about the matter.
To find those answers, Raskin wants to send...
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one rabbi that “I want you to die.”
Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat. He was...