(Tim Gruver, The Center Square) Pandemic travel restrictions between the U.S. and Canada have come at the expense of Washington's border communities.
The U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada will stay closed to nonessential travel through Aug. 21, according to documents to be published in the Federal Register. Federal officials said the move is...
(Headline USA) As Amazon's erstwhile CEO, Jeff Bezos, bows out of operations to pursue his dreams of penetrating the great unknown, the creepy tech company has its sights set closer to home.
The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the country---sometimes with financial incentives---to give its drivers the ability...
(Headline USA) The chief executive of Unilever on Thursday said the global consumer goods giant remains “fully committed” to doing business in Israel, distancing himself from this week’s announcement by anti-Semitic company Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to stop serving Israeli "settlements" in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
But CEO...
President Joe Biden is in denial about inflation.
This week he superficially addressed the problem by admitting the obvious – that prices have been rising rapidly this year – while denying that the inflation surge represents anything out of the ordinary.
“Some folks have raised worries that this could be a...
(Headline USA) Israel’s prime minister vowed Tuesday to “act aggressively” against the decision by Ben & Jerry’s to stop selling its ice cream in Israeli territories it says are "occupied," as the country’s ambassador to the U.S. urged dozens of state governors to punish the company under anti-boycott laws.
The strong...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) A federal watchdog says billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted through unemployment programs in the past year, and that number is likely to rise.
The Government Accountability Office released a report examining unemployment benefits during the COVID pandemic that found states and territories had overpaid...
(Jack Birle, The Center Square) President Joe Biden attempted to quell fears over inflation during a speech about his administration’s handling of the economy Monday.
Biden acknowledged rising prices for products like lumber and automobiles but also said these price increases are a side effect of the economy emerging from the...
(Headline USA) Ben & Jerry’s said Monday it was going to stop selling its ice cream in Israel's territory of the "West Bank" of the Jordan River and east Jerusalem, saying the sales in the territories sought by the Palestinians are “inconsistent with our values.”
The announcement was one of the...
Citing the national security risk, politicians on both sides of the aisle are aiming to crack down on Chinese purchasing of agricultural land in the U.S.
“By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching...
America faces a retirement crisis.
The chairman of the world’s largest asset management firm is sounding the alarm.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told CNBC last week that he sees a “silent crisis of retirement.”
Fink cited ultra-low interest rates, combining with elevated inflation rates, as steadily diminishing the real value of retirement...
Despite its notoriety for publicly embracing 'woke' virtue-signaling and cancel-culture, the Walt Disney Company had no scruples in choosing red-state incentives over draconian blue-state regulations when its own corporate affairs were on the line.
Disney will relocate 2,000 employees from its Burbank, California headquarters to Lake Nona, a planned development...
Treasury Secretary and former Fed Chair, Janet Yellen, has reversed course, saying that inflation will likely stay with the country for at least a few more months after previously saying it would likely subside quickly.
“We will have several more months of rapid inflation,” Yellen told Sara Eisen on CNBC....