Senator Lisa Murkowski, R.-Alaska, pressed Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about fishing boat mask mandates in a hearing on Wednesday.
Murkowski expressed concern for the safety of the state's fishermen, arguing that mask mandates serve only to increase the dangers of an already...
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...
(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...
(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,...
An Ohio congressman used the ever-growing controversies surrounding coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci to propose 12-year 'term' limits for the unelected bureaucrats whose ability to flip on and off pandemic restrictions affords a dangerous degree of power without accountability.
Specifically, the bill targets the director of the National Institute of Allergy...
Illegal border crossings reached a 20-year high in April, with immigration officials apprehending more than 178,622 illegal immigrants at the southern border.
The number of illegal immigrants caught trying to enter the country continues to rise, according to officials.
April’s apprehensions were up 3% from March’s, which totaled 172,331.
Since October 2020,...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) Vickie Phillips received an unpleasant surprise when she stopped in for a fill-up at the Pop Shoppe in Greensboro, North Carolina on Monday.
There was no fuel.
“I can’t believe that we’re here and can’t even get gas,” Phillips told a local TV station. “People are...
Jeff Flake, the former NeverTrump Republican senator from Arizona, claimed the only reason Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., was ousted from her leadership position as the House GOP caucus chair this week was because she was honest.
In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Flake said Cheney’s removal proves “there is...
Failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced this week that his publishing company will begin releasing an anthology of essays supporting the abolition of police and prisons.
“Today, I’m excited to share that we at @KaepernickPublishing will be releasing our first title, ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE: THE MOVEMENT FOR A FUTURE...
Congressman Michael Waltz, R.-Fla., attacked President Joe Biden for his lack of leadership today, claiming that he is having his "Jimmy Carter moment."
Waltz, a combat-decorated Green Beret, alluded to the famous "crisis of confidence," which Carter spoke in a time of American self-doubt and a radical questioning of leadership,...
(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...
If history repeats itself, we may be forging full-steam-ahead on a Ron DeSantis routing of the Biden administration in 2024.
The Left would surely agree that there was something Kennedy- and Johnson-esque about the transformative but turbulent Obama years---including the civil unrest that capped them off.
For better or worse, there...