Tuesday, July 1, 2025

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Pa. Voters to Decide Whether Governor Can Keep Nanny-State Powers

(Associated Press) Republican lawmakers across the country have tried to roll back the emergency powers that governors wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they ordered businesses shut, mask-wearing in public and students home for distance learning. Pennsylvania's Legislature is now taking its case to the ballot. In the first vote of its...

Colonial Pipeline Restarts Operations Days After Major Hack

(Associated Press) The nation's largest fuel pipeline restarted operations Wednesday, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers. The disruption of Colonial Pipeline caused long lines at gas stations in the Southeast due to distribution problems and panic-buying, draining supplies at thousands of gas stations. Colonial initiated...

MORE INFLATION EVIDENCE: Wholesale Prices Jump .6% in April

(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,...

Trump’s Defense Sec., Atty. Gen., Defend Decisions on Jan. 6th

(Headline USA) Two senior Trump administration officials defended their actions during the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol in testimony before Congress on Wednesday, with former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller standing behind every decision he made that day. Miller told the House Oversight Committee that he was concerned before...

Whitmer Threatens Profit Seizure if Oil Pipeline w/ Canada Keeps Operating

(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...

UPDATE: House GOP Ousts Cheney After Her Fiery Speech Last Night

UPDATE 9:30 AM EDT 5/12/2021: House Republicans ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the chamber’s No. 3 GOP leader on Wednesday, punishing her after she repeatedly rebuked former President Donald Trump for his claims of election fraud and his alleged role in fomenting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Meeting...

Consumer Prices Shoot Up in April as Inflation Worries Escalate

(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,...

Another Corrupt Union Boss is Headed to Prison

(Associated Press) A welder who rose from the factory floor to become president of a venerable U.S. labor union was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in prison for luxurious winter stays in the California sun covered by dues paid by his blue-collar members. Dennis Williams, who led the United Auto Workers...

Judge Dismisses NRA Bankruptcy Case in Blow to Gun Group

(Associated Press) A federal judge dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case Tuesday, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit that accuses it of financial abuses and aims to put it out of business. The judge was tasked with deciding whether the NRA should be allowed...

Job Openings Soar to Highest Level on Record; Businesses Can’t Get Help

(Associated Press) U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, illustrating starkly the desperation of businesses trying to find new workers as the country emerges from the pandemic and the economy expands. Yet total job gains increased only modestly, according to a Labor Department report issued Tuesday. The figures...

Thousands of Migrant Kids Held in Mass Shelters w/ Little Oversight

(Headline USA) The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that the Associated Press has learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside. Confidential data obtained by the AP shows the number...

McCarthy Sets Wed. Vote on Liz Cheney Leadership Ouster

(Headline USA) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy set a Wednesday vote for removing Rep. Liz Cheney from her Republican leadership post in the chamber, saying it was clear that he and his GOP colleagues “need to make a change.” Cheney, R-Wyo., seems all but certain to be tossed from her No....
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