(Eli Pacheco, Headline USA) Just in time for the holidays: Fuel prices are spiking.
Gas prices rose 0.6% on Wednesday, the largest single-day spike in four months.
The American Automotive Association estimated 115 million Americans will take to the roads for holiday travel this season, adding expense to the trip.
The...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to identify a single Biden administration policy aimed at securing the southern border amid rampant illegal immigration.
During Thursday’s press briefing, Jean-Pierre declined to respond to questions about potential immigration policies President Joe Biden is open to discuss with Congressional Republicans...
(Headline USA) Portland rioters who participated in the weeks of nightly disruptions during the summer and fall of 2020---including the vandalism and destruction of a federal building---have filed a new lawsuit against law enforcement alleging negligence and battery.
Despite the parallels with the Jan. 6, 2021, political protest at the...
(Headline USA) A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language.
Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, thought back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has lived for...
(Headline USA) New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday.
It comes at a time when the state continues to reckon with a significant financial crisis brought about largely by the Biden administration's open-border policies,...
(Headline USA) If two of the latest Apple Watches are on your holiday shopping list, don't dawdle for much longer because the devices won't be available to buy in the U.S. later this week if the White House doesn't intervene in an international patent dispute.
Apple plans to suspend sales...
(Headline USA) A quasi-independent review board is recommending that Facebook parent company Meta overturn two decisions it made this fall to remove posts “informing the world about human suffering on both sides” of the Israel--Hamas war.
In both cases, Meta ended up reinstating the posts—one showing Palestinian casualties and the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An Inspector General report revealed Wednesday that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his aides spent approximately $59,000 on taxpayer-funded flights between August 2021 and June 2023, according to Fox News' report on Wednesday.
The DOT Office of the Inspector General's 32-page audit concluded that Buttigieg's frequent use...
(Eli Pacheco, Headline USA) Hackers tapped into a critically rated security vulnerability through Comcast, granting them access to sensitive data for nearly 36 million customers of its TV and internet division, Xfinity.
The breach, confirmed on Tuesday, started in August, according to a TechCrunch report. The report referred to the vulnerability...
(Eli Pacheco, Headline USA) Nikola founder Trevor Milton received a four-year prison sentence on Tuesday for investor fraud---less than half what federal prosecutors sought in the case.
Milton, 41, who founded the electric truck startup, faced a maximum of 60 years in prison. Federal prosecutors asked for an 11-year sentence...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy, who’s overseeing the prosecution of a high-end prosecution ring, has vowed to prosecute the elected officials, military officers and other high-powered officials involved in the sex-trafficking operation.
Levy promised this in a Monday update on his investigation into an interstate prostitution network with...
(Headline USA) Washington state Democrats introduced a proposal this week that would outlaw new gas-powered lawn equipment, such as lawn mowers, and punish violators with potential jail time.
A bill pre-filed by state Rep. Amy Walen would amend the state’s Clean Air Act to ban new “gasoline-powered and diesel-powered landscaping and...