(Headline USA) President Donald Trump used a televised address Thursday to the World Economic Forum to promise global elites lower taxes if they bring manufacturing to the U.S.---and threatened to impose tariffs if they don’t.
Speaking by video from the White House to the annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, on his...
(Headline USA) Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Thursday the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years, comments that came after President Donald Trump earlier put a price tag on returning to the kingdom as his first foreign trip.
Trump's 2017 trip to Saudi...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., came forward with a disturbing story about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline during a private meeting in 2023. Johnson said Biden did not remember signing an executive order.
In a Saturday interview with The Free Press, Johnson said Biden seemed unaware he...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump tasked a New Jersey congressman and vocal critic of offshore wind with writing an executive order he could issue to halt wind energy projects.
Offshore wind is a major part of transitioning to an electric grid powered entirely by sources that don’t emit carbon dioxide...
(Headline USA) A large portion of downtown Omaha lost power for several hours Thursday after a garbage truck got stuck in a sinkhole where utility lines had become exposed.
The truck became stuck around 8 a.m. with its nose tilted down into the sinkhole and its rear wheels lifting several...
(Headline USA) Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of so-called climate change under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The new law requires companies responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions to pay into a state fund for infrastructure projects meant...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) With World War 3 brewing, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday a new initiative: combating climate change in Africa.
"It's an issue that our African colleagues raise to us repeatedly in almost every engagement we have overseas," Maureen Farrell, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for African...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) An ongoing war in Syria has suddenly ended with the overturning of the longstanding Syrian government, creating national-security and humanitarian concerns but also threatening global oil markets.
“Russian oil and gas companies have operated in Syria for years adding to the world’s supply,” Daniel Turner,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration announced Tuesday a $6.6 billion loan extension to Rivian, an electric vehicle manufacturer and notable rival of Tesla, the car company owned by Elon Musk.
The announcement comes less than a month after President-elect Donald Trump tapped Musk to lead the soon-to-be-launched Department of...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, joined by 10 other attorneys general, sued three of the world’s largest investment firms, alleging antitrust violations and attempts to manipulate the coal market.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court, accuses BlackRock, State Street Corporation and Vanguard Group of pressuring coal producers...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The average American’s energy bill could increase from 25% to 70% in the next 10 years without intervention from policymakers, according to a recent study from Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Jack Kemp Foundation.
According to reports, America is facing an energy crisis, with demand...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump handed another high-level appointment in his administration to a local ex-lawmaker from his home state of New York on Monday afternoon.
Former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., whose 2022 run came close to toppling incumbent Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, will be the new...