The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will be paying $440 million to install solar panels in Puerto Rico. The Department of Energy made the announcement on Thursday, saying that the funding will lower energy costs for 30,000 to 40,000 single-family households in Puerto Rico and help improve the resilience of energy sources. “This funding will also...
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) took the stand Thursday in a case attempting to disqualify former President Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot in Colorado, with the GOP congressman appearing as a witness on behalf of Trump campaign attorneys attempting to discredit the House Select Committee that investigated Jan. 6. The case centers on whether...
President Biden and White House officials this week have increasingly voiced support for a humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas conflict as fighting in Gaza in particular intensifies. The support for a humanitarian pause comes nearly a month after Hamas, a militant group that controls Gaza, launched terrorist attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,400...
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Mary Trump, the niece of former President Trump, said she thinks Ivanka Trump will throw her father “under the bus” when she testifies in the fraud trial underway in New York. Mary Trump, host of “The Mary Trump Show” podcast and a very outspoken critic of her uncle, previewed the trial with reporter Molly Jong-Fast...
In a recent op-ed, Thomas Hochman and Lars Erik Schönander of the Foundation for American Innovation championed the expansion of categorical exclusions (CEs) under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). While their arguments for streamlining infrastructure deployment, particularly for geothermal energy, are well-intentioned, they miss a fundamental point: NEPA exists to ensure that we, as a...
Three Senate Republicans introduced legislation that would impose import fees on foreign polluters, earning rare praise from the Sierra Club. The Foreign Pollution Fee Act, introduced by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), would impose the fee on energy and industrial imports, with the fee determined based on the exporting...
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) joked in a new interview that now that he lives in Houston, he would "love" to run against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) one day. “Actually it'd be kind of fun to run against Ted Cruz, to be honest with you," he told ABC’s Galen Druke on the “538” podcast, when asked...
Lachlan Murdoch, the incoming chairman of Fox and News Corp., is touting Fox News' coverage of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas over the last several weeks. "We are living through tumultuous times and at the outset, I want to acknowledge the work our journalists are doing covering the horrific October 7 terrorist attack...
We urge Israel to focus on three themes that if repeated, every day, would improve Israel’s information campaign and bring it up to the level of its battlefield prowess.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) reaffirmed he would support former President Trump if Trump becomes the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee, calling back to the party loyalty pledge he signed to participate in debates. “I signed a pledge,” DeSantis said in an MSNBC interview Thursday. “That pledge is what it is.” But the governor also said a...
The Justice Department (DOJ) announced Thursday it is launching civil investigations into two detention centers in South Carolina, citing several reports of inmate deaths and assaults, concerning physical conditions and alleged discrimination of those with disabilities. The probe will look into the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center, operated by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office in North...
Nearly half of Arkansas respondents approve of the job Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) is doing as the state’s governor, resulting in the lowest approval rating an Arkansas governor has received since her father, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R). In a new Arkansas Poll published Wednesday, the survey found that 48 percent of state respondents...
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GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley took a jab at fellow candidate Ron DeSantis over rumors that the Florida governor wears lifts in his boots to appear taller. In a Wednesday interview on “The Daily Show,” host Charlamagne tha God asked Haley whether she plans to wear high heels to appear taller than DeSantis on stage...
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with calling the World Jewish Congress and threatening to kill Israeli people, the Department of Justice announced Thursday, part of a recent spike in antisemitic incidents. In a news release Thursday, federal authorities said Deep Alpesh Kumar Patel of Sarasota was charged with transmitting an interstate threat...
One of the five former Memphis Tennessee police officers charged in the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols has accepted a plea deal for both his state and federal criminal cases. Federal prosecutors charged Desmond Mills and four other officers in September with excessive force, deliberate indifference, conspiracy to witness tamper and obstruction of justice. Mills...
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is launching a multimillion-dollar ad buy in Iowa and New Hampshire as the 38-year-old GOP millennial struggles to stand out from the pack against former President Trump and his other 2024 rivals. Ramaswamy’s campaign is so far spending up to $8 million in Iowa and $4 million in New Hampshire...
Efforts to keep former President Trump off the ballot under the 14th Amendment reached the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday, with several justices during oral arguments appearing wary that they should be the ones to determine Trump's eligibility. The case, brought by a left-leaning nonprofit, is one of multiple across the country seeking to prevent Trump...
The percentage of high school students who said they use tobacco products dropped in the past year, primarily due to a decline in electronic cigarette use, according to government data released Thursday. However, there were more middle school students who said they used any tobacco products, a trend that poses a challenge for regulators and...
Retailers are expecting Americans to spend more money than ever this holiday season despite economic and geopolitical headwinds, the National Retail Federation (NRF) announced Thursday. The major retail trade association projected sales to rise by 3 percent to 4 percent in November and December for a total of $957 billion to $967 billion spent during...
The White House is condemning comments from Jesse Watters, a popular Fox News host, who complained this week about the instability and ongoing violence in the Middle East. “I want to say something about Arab Americans and about the Muslim world,” Watters said during Wednesday's edition of table talk program "The Five." "We ... and...
Toyota said it will raise wages at its U.S. factories just days after the United Auto Workers (UAW) union reached a tentative agreement with the three major automakers to suspend a weekslong strike. The Japanese automaker will reportedly increase wages for hourly manufacturing workers at the top rate by about 9 percent Jan. 1, according...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that the House is nearing a decision on whether to move on articles of impeachment against President Biden. Asked during a press conference if he believes there is enough evidence to move on articles of impeachment against Biden, Johnson said: “I do believe that very soon we are coming...
Cornell University announced Thursday it was canceling Friday classes in the wake of the "extraordinary stress" caused by a series of antisemitic threats posted to an online discussion board earlier this week. In an email to community members at Cornell's Ithaca and Geneva campuses, Michael Kotlikoff, the vice president for student and campus life, and...
