Washington is scrambling to stave off an unprecedented debt default as roughly a week stands between the country and a looming deadline. Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen warned earlier this week that the country is still on track to default on its debt as soon as next Thursday if Congress fails to raise or suspend...
Every House Democrat has endorsed the discharge petition to force a vote on legislation to hike the debt ceiling and prevent a default, party leaders announced Wednesday. The signatures of the last final holdouts — Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii) — puts the total number at 213, meaning Democratic leaders still need to find...
George Washington University has selected “Revolutionaries” as its new moniker, after the school scrapped “Colonials” under growing student pressure. Officials announced the new moniker Wednesday, which will take effect starting in the 2023-2024 academic year. University officials said in a press release Wednesday that after a year taking in 47,000 points of feedback and 8,000...
President Biden on Wednesday marked the anniversary of a mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that left 19 children dead, offering sympathy to the families of the victims and pleading yet again for Congress to take action to stop the epidemic of gun violence in the United States. “Too many schools, too many...
Tina Turner — a musical artist dubbed as the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll and known for multiple hits that reached the top of the charts in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, died on Tuesday. She was 83. Turner’s manager confirmed Turner died after a long illness at her home near Zurich, Switzerland. She became...
Veterans do not support far-left or far-right extremist groups any more than the average American population, according to a study released this week from the nonprofit RAND Corporation. About 5.5 percent of veterans supported the far-left extremist group Antifa, compared to 10 percent of the American public, according to the study, while only 0.7 percent...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) dismissed the threat of the government defaulting on its debt saying “no one is freaking out” in the House Republican conference about the deadline. Her remarks come even amid Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s repeated warnings of the severe economic consequences if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling by June...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) holds a 5-point lead over the Democrat running for his seat, according to a new poll. The University of Texas at Tyler poll found that 42 percent of registered voters would support Cruz in the 2024 Senate race, while 37 percent said they would back Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas). Another 7...
White House officials on Wednesday put a spotlight to remarks by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in which he said some Republicans feel they should not negotiate with their “hostage” in debt ceiling talks. Biden administration officials pointed to Gaetz’s comments to argue that the GOP has created a “manufactured crisis” around efforts to raise the...
Sixteen percent of respondents in a new survey said the U.S. is headed in the right direction as the country is bracing for significant economic problems amid ongoing debt ceiling talks. The Monmouth University poll, published Wednesday, found that while only 16 percent of respondents believe that the U.S. is headed in the right direction,...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has filed paperwork for his long-anticipated bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, offering himself up to GOP voters as an uncompromisingly conservative, yet still electable, alternative to former President Trump as the party grapples with recent electoral disappointments. DeSantis, who filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, had been...
On the one-year anniversary of the Uvalde school shooting, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said that while more work on to protect school children from gun violence needs to be done, the Uvalde community is “hopeful” for the future. “And while we are healing and it's going to be a long time before we are...
Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., are suing an Arizona telecommunications company for allegedly sending robocalls to millions of numbers on the Do Not Call Registry, according to a filing. In the suit, attorneys general from all states except Alaska and South Dakota allege that Michael D. Lansky LLC — which does business under the name...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s second in command is throwing her support behind his 2024 presidential bid. The endorsement from Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez came just hours before DeSantis is expected to formally announce his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination in a live Twitter discussion with the social media platform’s billionaire owner Elon Musk....
Republicans objected on the House floor Wednesday after Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) accused them of using "bigoted logic" during discussions on student loan forgiveness, demanding that the comment be stricken from the record. The remark, which Frost agreed to withdraw, came during debate about a measure that would end President Biden’s student debt relief and...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the deadline to raise the debt ceiling is almost certainly in early June as lawmakers attempt to reach a deal to increase the limit before the country goes into default. Yellen said on Wednesday at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit that the country must not be allowed to...
Bioré, a skincare brand known for its blackhead-removing “strips,” is facing backlash over a sponsored TikTok post that encouraged customers to “strip away the stigma of anxiety” — including the anxiety faced by survivors of school shootings.
Debt ceiling negotiations are getting a venue change Thursday as House Republican negotiators head to the White House to work more on a deal. “I’m sending our negotiation team down to the White House to try to finish up the negotiations with the White House,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters. The Speaker noted that...
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Congress is expanding its investigation into the use of slave labor in manufacturing car components. Automakers, pressed to make their supply chains as transparent as possible, can turn to AI for help.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to launch a 2024 presidential bid Wednesday, joining former President Trump and others in the growing GOP primary race. After months of moves that hinted at a possible bid, DeSantis is expected to formally kickstart his bid during a live discussion with Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Twitter...
Home sales last month beat expectations and reached a high not seen in more than a year, as more supply enters the housing market and potentially puts a downward pressure on prices. New single-family home sales increased 4.1 percent from March to April and were up by 11.8 percent from a year ago, according to data...
Microsoft will launch a new service powered by artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help users of its Windows 11 platform. In a blog post, the company said Windows Copilot can explain content to users by either rewriting or summarizing it. Users can also ask general questions to the Windows Copilot, similar to the Bing Chat...
A bipartisan group of sneaker-loving lawmakers is dipping their toes in an intense sartorial debate: giving their seal — or sole — of approval to sport dress sneakers in the White House. “The Congressional Sneaker Caucus unequivocally supports Speaker McCarthy’s and Leader Jeffries’ freedom to wear dress sneakers in the Oval Office,” the group said...
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