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BP’s oil exploration team has been cut down to 100 people from its peak of more than 700 as part of the company’s effort to prioritize climate change. Hundreds have left the oil exploration team in recent months under the leadership of CEO Bernard Looney --- either having been transferred,...

(Associated Press) An audit released Thursday found the California Employment Development Department has likely paid $10.4 billion in fraudulent benefits from March to December, a number that is likely to grow in the coming months. California State Auditor Elaine Howle said the agency was slow to react to warnings of...

(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intensified pressure Thursday on House Republican leaders for their handling of a controversial GOP freshman. She denounced them for placing a lawmaker who Pelosi says has "mocked the killing of little children" on the chamber's education committee. Pelosi's comments focused on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,...

(Headline USA) Democrat Joe Biden on Thursday ordered Obamacare's health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window. Biden signed an executive order directing the HealthCare.gov insurance markets to take new applications for subsidized benefits. He also instructed his administration to consider reversing other Trump health care policies, including curbs...

(Headline USA) Democrats in Congress and the White House rejected a Republican pitch to split Democrat Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion bailout package into smaller chunks on Thursday. Lawmakers appear primed to muscle the sweeping economic and virus aid forward without GOP help. Despite Biden's calls for unity, Democrats said the stubbornly...

(Headline USA) Irritated by the sweeping use of executive orders during the COVID-19 crisis, state lawmakers around the U.S. are moving to curb the authority of governors and top health officials to impose emergency restrictions such as mask rules and business shutdowns. The push is underway in such states as Arizona,...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden, proclaimed by the legacy media as a faithful Catholic, on Thursday rescinded a regulation that barred U.S. foreign aid from being used to perform or promote abortions. His decision, while expected, was cheered by abortion-choice advocates and some humanitarian groups, and denounced by anti-abortion groups. Biden's move...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed without evidence this week that the House Republican Caucus is full of “white supremacy sympathizers” who face “no consequences” for their support of violence and racism. “This term, there are legitimate white supremacist sympathizers that sit at the heart and at the core of the...

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said America's anger and division stems from Donald Trump's "big lie" that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election. He called on fellow Republicans to denounce Trump and his supporters who challenge the election's integrity, Deseret News reported. Romney said elected Republicans should appear on Fox...

President Joe Biden has begun staffing his promised commission to “reform” the Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary. The commission, which will be part of the White House Counsel’s office and chaired by Biden campaign lawyer Bob Bauer, is moving ahead with its plan to propose various reforms...

(Headline USA) Forced into a widespread shutdown blamed on the coronavirus, the U.S. economy grew at a 4% annual rate in the final three months of 2020 and shrank last year by the largest amount in 74 years. For 2020 as a whole, a year when the coronavirus inflicted the worst...

(Headline USA) New York may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents by as much as 50%, the state’s attorney general said in a report released Thursday. Far-left Attorney General Letitia James has, for months, been examining discrepancies between the number of deaths being reported by the state’s Department of...