The May jobs report today again disappointed economists' expectations, adding just 559,000 jobs versus the consensus estimate of 671,000 jobs.
“May’s letdown came after April sharply undershot expectations,” says CNBC, “with the upwardly revised 278,000 still well short of the initial 1 million estimate that came with high hopes...
The Biden administration is rumbling again about making tech (and other) billionaires pay at increased capital gains and income tax rates in order to help pay for his proposed $6 trillion budget.
“I think you should be able to become a billionaire or a millionaire,” Biden told Congress about the...
(Headline USA) Former Vice President Mike Pence says that he isn’t sure that he and former President Donald Trump will ever see “eye to eye” over what happened on Jan. 6 but that he would “always be proud of what we accomplished for the American people over the last four...
The Justice Department is reportedly investigating a consulting firm tied to Ukrainian energy company Burisma for allegations of potentially illegal lobbying that arose when President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was on the company's board.
DOJ officials are looking into whether the consulting firm Blue Star Strategies failed to comply with...
Project 21, a black-conservative think tank and cultural watchdog, lambasted basketball player LeBron James for his endorsement of a company that sells pro-Confederate merchandise.
The uniforms for James's team, the Los Angeles Lakers, feature the logo of online retailer Wish as part of a $12-14 million promotional arrangement.
Lakers Chief Operating...
(Headline USA) An extremely rare wildflower that grows only in Nevada’s high desert where an Australian mining company wants to dig for lithium should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday.
The agency outlined its intention to propose listing Tiehm’s buckwheat as a...
Former special counsel Robert Mueller will help teach a class this fall about his investigation into former president Donald Trump’s campaign and the debunked Russiagate hoax.
Mueller, who led the federal probe into allegations that Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election from 2017 to 2019, will co-lead...
House Agriculture Chairman David Scott, D-Ga., said on Wednesday that he opposes President Joe Biden's plan to increase death taxes.
Biden wants to almost double the capital-gains tax on inherited property, a proposal that Scott called a nonstarter, even with built-in deferrals for farms and ranches that pass from generation...
With outrage continuing to build over countless new revelations in coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci's newly published trove of emails, the White House appeared to distance itself Thursday from the embattled virologist.
"Let me just say, on Dr. Fauci and his emails, he has also spoken to this many, many times...
More than 500 Georgia Republicans signed a letter this week asking Republican Gov. Brain Kemp to pursue a forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election similar to the audit taking place in Arizona’s Maricopa County.
The letter, signed by 531 state Republicans who range from conservative activists to Georgia GOP...
Katie Hill, the disgraced former California Congresswoman who resigned from her House seat after her inappropriate affairs with staffers came to light, was ordered to pay $220,000 in legal fees to the Daily Mail and to two journalists she sued, according to Fox News.
Hill filed the lawsuit last year...
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said the state will give away guns in order to bribe people to get the coronavirus vaccine, The Hill reported.
It also plans to hand out cash and trucks via its new vaccine lottery program.
For each of the incentive program's first five weeks, one winner will...