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Retailers Seek to Cash-In on Commercialization of New Juneteenth Holiday

(Headline USA) Retailers and marketers have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of merchandise from ice cream to T-shirts to party cups. But many are getting backlash on social media for what critics say undermines the day, designated as a federal holiday last year to honor the emancipation...

Disney Delays Plans to Open New Fla. Campus, Insists Spat w/ DeSantis Not to Blame

(Headline USA) The Walt Disney Co. is delaying by more than three years the opening of a campus in central Florida to which 2,000 workers were being relocated from Southern California to work in digital technology, finance and product development. Despite having recently incurred the wrath of Florida's Republican Gov....

Fed’s Aggressive Rate Hikes Raise Llikelihood of Recession

(Headline USA) Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb the Biden administration's self-inflicted inflation crisis, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed's efforts so far to tame it. Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the...

New GOP Proposal Will Balance Federal Budget in 7 Years

(Chris Parker, Headline USA) House Republicans have devised a proposal that should balance the federal budget in seven years, with the ambitiously-named "Blueprint to Save America" calling for a series of spending cuts, tax reforms and deregulation to help spur tax revenue through economic growth. The House Republican Study Committee...

Facebook Caught Allowing ISIS Content While Censoring US Conservatives

(Headline USA) A new study has found that Facebook has failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab extremist content in posts aimed at East Africa as the region remains under threat from violent attacks and Kenya prepares to vote in a closely contested national election. The two-year study by...

Fed Hikes Rate, Biggest Spike in Nearly 3 Decades

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In a desperate attempt to slow runaway inflation and the disastrous economy that the Biden administration’s bungling and failed policies have created, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday jacked interest rates by a staggering three-quarters of a percentage point, the largest rate hike since 1994. The move, an...

Biden Rants at Oil Companies to Ramp Up Production That He Disincentivized

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on U.S. oil refiners to produce more gasoline and diesel, saying their profits have tripled as Americans struggle with record high prices at the pump and threatening to use "emergency powers" to regulate the private industry if they refuse to comply. “The...

Fed to Unleash Biggest Interest-Rate Hike in 28 Years

(Headline USA) The Federal Reserve was expected Wednesday to announce its largest interest rate hike since 1994---a bigger increase than it had previously signaled and a sign that the central bank is struggling to restrain stubbornly high inflation. The Fed is considered likely to raise its benchmark short-term rate by...

Biden’s War on Women Continues w/ Tampon Shortages

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In addition to the baby formula shortage, a shortage of tampons and other feminine hygiene products is the latest supply crisis to strike nation under President Joe Biden's watch. "Women are not only faced with a baby formula shortage, but now tampons are in short supply"...

PPI Inflation Hits Worst Pace in Decades

(Chris Parker, Headline USA) Inflation neared its all-time high in May as the producer price index hit 10.8%, reflecting yet another disastrous impact of the Biden administration's failing policies. PPI inflation also rose nearly 1% in that single month. The PPI measures the entire marketed output of goods and services...

Despite Wokeness, Tax Funding for NFL Stadiums Grows Exponentially

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Despite the increasing wokeness put on display by the National Football League on a daily basis, teams are still holding cities hostage by forcing them to purchase new and fancier stadiums at a record clip. According to economist J.C. Bradbury of Kennesaw State University in Georgia,...

Google Whistleblower Placed on Leave after Claiming AI Has Reached Singularity

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A Google whistleblower who claimed the company's artificial intelligence experiment has gained consciousness was subsequently put on leave, the Western Journal reported. Engineer Blake Lemoine said he had a conversation with Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications, also known as LaMDA, to see if it used...
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