(Associated Press) Calling Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings “not one of the bigger ones,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that if smaller cruise lines want to leave the state because of bans on vaccine requirements, their void will be filled.
Miami-based Norwegian is the third-largest cruise line in the world and...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) A series of red states around the country are turning away federal supplemental funding for unemployment benefits, saying it is hurting their state economies and encouraging potential workers to stay home rather than return to the workforce.
Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday the state...
Apple's suppliers in China have connections with factories that use slave labor and a forced labor camp in the Xinjiang region, according to The Information (paywall).
The investigative news site learned from company employees and documents that seven suppliers, which assemble Apple's products and make its device components, have strong connections...
As the Biden administration showers the nation in debt-funded handouts and federal bailouts, new concerns are emerging as to the likelihood of a “Great Reset” in the value of our currency.
However, this potential dollar rout has been in the making for many years.
Abusive monetary and fiscal policy in Washington...
(Associated Press) Wholesale prices rose a higher-than-expected 0.6% in April, driven by escalating food costs.
It's more evidence that inflation pressures are starting to mount as the country emerges from a recession brought on by the pandemic.
The increase in the producer price index, which measures inflationary pressures before they reach consumers,...
California's cap-and-trade program transfers wealth from manufacturers and oil companies to environmentalists, yet it has not demonstrated any ability to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The program relies on selling "polluters" carbon credits that give them the right to emit carbon dioxide—a naturally occurring gas in the atmosphere.
A recent...
(Headline USA) Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer threatened Tuesday to go after Enbridge's profits from a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the company defies her order to shut it down.
The Democrat governor issued the warning in a letter to the Canadian energy transport company on the eve of a state-imposed deadline...
(Associated Press) State and federal officials are scrambling to find alternate routes to deliver gasoline in the Southeast U.S. after a hack of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline led to panic-buying that contributed to more than 1,000 gas stations running out of fuel.
There is no gasoline shortage, according to government...
(Associated Press) A worrisome bout of inflation struck the economy in April, with U.S. consumer prices for goods and services surging 0.8%, the largest monthly jump in in more than a decade, and the year-over-year increase reaching its fastest rate since 2008.
The acceleration in prices, which has built for months,...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Gas stations in multiple U.S. states began to run out of gas after Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest pipeline, fell victim to a cyberattack over the weekend.
Residents living in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia have already reported running out of fuel...
After denying on Monday that increased federal coronavirus relief was a contributing factor to a nationwide labor shortage, President Joe Biden warned that Americans who turn down a “suitable job” could lose their benefits.
A devastating Friday jobs report found that only 266,000 jobs were created in the past few...
Cybersecurity experts condemned President Joe Biden's administration after senior officials rejected the FBI's advice not to allow private companies to negotiate with ransomware demands, the Daily Mail reported.
Specialists in cybersecurity argue that the White House's decision will lead to an increase in ransomware incidents because of the lure of...