The White House is turning the tables on House Republican lawmakers when it comes to conservative-led spending proposals that Democrats warn could mean cuts to crucial programs like Medicare and Social Security. The Biden administration is already building on a strategy it deployed during the midterm election season in which it highlighted talk from multiple...
Story at a glance The number of seniors visiting emergency rooms in California for cannabis-related issues is growing, according to new research. From 2005 to 2019, the state’s emergency departments saw a 1,808 percent relative increase in the rate of cannabis-related trips among those aged 65 and older. Cannabis is currently legal for both medicinal...
These closures come just months after the company announced plans to close 56 others in September.
Massive losses in the real value of savings over the last 13 years amount to a silent tax imposed on savers to fund the economic recovery.
Job cuts across the media industry were up about 20 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to a new study. Data from outplacement research firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas found jobs in the "news," category — a sector the firm tracks as a subset of media that includes digital, broadcast and print...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is calling on Moderna not to quadruple the price of its COVID-19 vaccine, saying Tuesday that the plan amounts to "unacceptable corporate greed." In a Tuesday letter sent to Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, Sanders urged the company to reconsider its decision and refrain from any price increase "in light of the...
House Democrats will participate in all of the various special committee investigations being teed up by GOP leaders, the Democrats’ caucus chairman vowed on Tuesday. “It is our intent to seat members on … every select committee, every subcommittee that the leadership on the majority side advances,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) told reporters in the...
Incoming House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) is calling for a damage assessment into the potential fallout from the mishandling of classified records after documents from President Biden’s tenure as vice president were discovered at a center bearing his name. The roughly 10 documents were discovered at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global...
Story at a glance Most of California is under flood watches after the latest wave of heavy rainstorms has caused deluged roads and triggered mudslides. The National Weather Service issued flood watches on Monday for about 34 million Californians or around 90 percent of the Golden State’s total population. California has experienced an...
ANTITRUST Activision Blizzard hired Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck to lobby on issues related to labor and employment policy. The video game company, which is seeking to win regulatory approval to be purchased by Microsoft, is running ads in the nation’s capital noting that its workers’ union backs the merger. The firm enlisted Brownstein’s Nadeam Elshami,...
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the top Republican on the panel, on Tuesday pledged "to find common ground" in the upper chamber in the face of a looming standoff with the House over government funding. Murray and Collins in a joint statement said they would work together...
A spokesperson for General Motors' Cruise said the company is reviewing lane-mapping technology in the area.
The pattern the investigation uncovered is not unique to Tennessee.
Former President Trump’s attorneys on Tuesday argued to the top court in Washington, D.C., that he acted within the scope of his employment as president when he made comments that a woman who accused him of raping her in the 1990s has said were defamatory. E. Jean Carroll, a longtime columnist for Elle magazine, went...
The senior Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee is warning that government shutdowns are all but inevitable if the newly empowered Republicans insist on dropping federal funding back to 2022 levels, as some conservatives have demanded. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) emphasized that any spending bills will need the support of Democrats in both Congress...
A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves due to concerns about indoor pollution being linked to childhood asthma, according to a report from Bloomberg News.
A pair of House Democrats on Tuesday filed and hand-delivered to Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) a complaint urging the Ethics Committee to open an investigation into allegations the freshman congressman failed to file timely, accurate and complete financial disclosure reports. Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) filed the ethics complaint against Santos on...
Republicans have significantly retooled the focus of the House panel investigating the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, a move that aligns with the new majority's oversight focus. As part of the rules package that passed the House 220-213 on Monday night, the 12-member Select Committee on the Coronavirus Response will be charged with examining...
A Texas Republican has filed articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, wasting little time in the new Congress to act on a GOP priority leadership has said would come after thorough investigation. Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) filed the paperwork for the resolution on Jan. 3, the first day of...
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that the discovery of classified documents from President Biden's time as vice president compared to the FBI's unprecedented search of former President Trump's private residence proved a "double standard." "It’s just incredibly frustrating to me," Pence said on the Hugh Hewitt Show. "But the original sin here was...
Television journalist Elizabeth Vargas is joining cable network NewsNation, the outlet announced on Tuesday. Vargas will anchor “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” an hour-long weekday evening news program debuting April 3 at 6 p.m. from a new state-of-the-art studio in New York City, the network said. Vargas, currently host of “iCrime,” a half-hour syndicated crime series that...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday it would be “inappropriate” for the central bank to plunge itself into the fight against climate change. In brief Tuesday remarks during a summit in Stockholm, Powell said while the Fed must make sure banks are prepared for climate-related financial risks, it must not take measures to steer...
The last eight years were the warmest eight years ever recorded, with 2022 coming in fifth, according to research from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The Copernicus analysis found 2022 is the fifth-warmest year on record, but that there are only slight differences in temperature between the fourth through eighth hottest years. The...
The U.S. Navy last week intercepted a fishing boat smuggling more than 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles from Iran to Yemen, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday. The patrol coastal ship USS Chinook first discovered the vessel sailing in international waters in the Gulf of Oman on a route historically used to traffic illicit cargo to the Iranian-backed Houthis...
With this new document discovery, President Biden may be accused of the same underlying crime as former President Trump.
