Billionaire Thomas Lee, who created the idea of a leveraged buyout, died on Thursday at the age of 78, a spokesperson for his family said. Michael Sitrick, a family friend, said in a statement that the family is “extremely saddened” by Lee’s death. “While the world knew him as one of the pioneers in the...
Too often Congress has seen pandemic preparedness as a luxury at best or simply a sunk cost at worst.
Vice President Kamala Harris warned Friday that a looming Texas court decision threatening access to abortion pills is an attack on a "fundamental freedom" of access to health care. Speaking to abortion rights advocates, Harris said the lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone was a partisan attack on science and medicine....
Almost two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a new poll taken about eight months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The survey released Thursday from the nonpartisan research organization Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found 64 percent of respondents believe abortion should be legal...
The housing affordability crisis is the result of a million miniature policies designed to restrict local development
The Northeast AAA is reminding drivers to check their vehicles for any recalls after Honda has issued a "Do Not Drive" warning for thousands of vehicles still on the road with unrepaired Takata Alpha air bag inflators.
The Defense Department’s U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has confirmed that it is investigating how one of its servers leaked sensitive data for two weeks. The Pentagon said it is evaluating the scope and impact of the potential data exposure, as well as “understand the root cause of the exposure and why [the] problem was...
Despite eight consecutive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve over the last year and a chorus of economists predicting a recession in 2023, the U.S. economy is refusing to bow down. After holding steady last month, data from the Commerce Department released Friday showed inflation bouncing back up, along with a strong increase in...
The first sentence of the overview section bluntly states, ”annual deficits over the 2024-2033 period average $2.0 trillion.”
A Youngstown, Ohio-based law firm has announced a class-action lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway over the derailment of a train in East Palestine, using a strategy it says echoes the state’s 1990s lawsuit against tobacco companies. The firm, Johnson and Johnson, is partnering with class-action law firm Hagens Berman on behalf of all residents within...
First lady Jill Biden indicated that President Biden will run for a second term, giving one of the strongest nods toward a 2024 bid from the president’s inner circle. “He says he’s not done,” Biden told The Associated Press in an interview in Kenya on Friday. “He’s not finished what he’s started. And that’s what’s...
First lady Jill Biden on Friday participated in a women’s empowerment reception during her visit to Kenya, emphasizing her position as a working woman. “When women earn money — nothing better, right? We invest it in our families. And I know that because I am a working woman,” Biden said at the reception at the...
The Supreme Court is poised to consider President Biden’s student loan cancellation plan next week. No matter the decision, the U.S. higher education system is at an indisputable breaking point, and its future hinges on what the government and postsecondary institutions do next. Today’s students increasingly question the value they are getting from their education....
Story at a glance Black LGBTQ representation in public office nationwide is four times what it was in 2018, with Black LGBTQ women at all levels of government leading the way, according to a new report from the LGBTQ Victory Institute, a national organization dedicated to elevating openly LGBTQ leaders to public office. Wins among...
The Department of Justice is seeking answers about a box containing classified materials that was moved to former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence after federal agents searched the property last August, CNN reported on Friday. Trump’s lawyers reportedly found the box of presidential schedules, which contained a handful of classified materials, in December and notified the FBI,...
We need to stop focusing on symptoms and address the root cause of our public education system’s dysfunction.
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says he plans to sue Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for providing Fox News host Tucker Carlson with exclusive access to footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Lindell on Thursday told Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast that his streaming platform Lindell-TV plans to sue McCarthy, claiming the...
While anyone can be an artist, writer, or musician and therefore entitled to copyright protections for their work, content made by artificial intelligence is no longer open to those same legal shields.
Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we've learned a lot about the virus, and have developed vaccines and antiviral treatments that make the prospect of contracting the virus less deadly for most people. But one aspect of the virus that remains frustratingly mysterious, and scary to many, is the range of outcomes called "long COVID."
New home sales rose to their highest level in nearly 10 months in January led partly by builder incentives and softer mortgage rates. Sales of new single-family homes increased by 7.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 670,000, according to Census Bureau data released on Friday. Yet the number is well...
Rihanna’s halftime show at Super Bowl LVII elicited more complaints from TV viewers than Sam Smith and Kim Petras’s controversial performance at the Grammy Awards. The “Diamonds” singer’s halftime spectacle at State Farm Stadium in Arizona earlier this month drew 102 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), according to records obtained by The Hill...
As a franchisee owner and immigrant entrepreneur, America’s longstanding commitment to a level playing field has allowed small business men and women like me the chance to work hard, compete, and succeed — creating jobs, prosperity and opportunity for millions of families. America’s small businesses are the backbone of our economy. The over 32 million small businesses across...
Californians living with long-term exposure to air pollution may experience an increased risk of having a heart attack or dying from heart disease, a new study has found. Individuals facing the biggest threat from such fine particle pollution — emitted by vehicles, smokestacks and fires — typically live in under-resourced communities, according to the study, published on Friday...
North Korea on Thursday fired cruise missiles in a figure-eight pattern after the U.S. and allied South Korea carried out military drills in the region that infuriated Pyongyang. North Korea launched four strategic "Hwasal-2" cruise missiles from Kim Chaek City that fell into the Sea of Japan, according to state-run media publication Korean Central News...
A divided federal appeals court panel ruled that a North Carolina law cannot be used to prevent People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) from using undercover cameras. In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that blocking the animal rights group’s “newsgathering activities” would violate the First...
