The Department of Justice dropped its felony case against Boeing on Friday for the company’s role in two fatal crashes that killed over 300 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The two sides agreed to a tentative nonprosecution agreement last week that compensates the victims. The agreement put $444.5 million into a crash victims’ fund that […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy directly linked a rise in subway felony assaults to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), accusing her of failing to protect riders. New York Police Department data showed that subway felony assaults rose by 20% since last year, despite other crimes decreasing. Duffy sought to connect this to Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation […]
President Donald Trump clarified Friday that Samsung would also be subject to new tariffs on iPhones unless tech companies move their production to the United States. “It would be more. It would be also Samsung and anybody that makes that product. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be fair,” Trump told reporters after signing energy executive orders at […]
Police in Washington, D.C., will enforce a youth curfew over Memorial Day weekend after several instances of young mobs wreaking havoc across the city. The Wharf area of Washington will be off-limits for youth under 18 from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. over the holiday weekend. Any juveniles out in the area after 5 p.m. […]
Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, said he and President Donald Trump had a “fun” conversation after the president left him a voicemail to check in on Adams following his cancer diagnosis. Adams announced he had been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer on Monday. He has received many messages of support, leading to […]
The Trump administration is attempting to end Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, with one stated reason being “coordinated activity” with the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning fielded multiple questions on the suspension of international students from the preeminent university during a press conference on Friday. “China-U.S. education cooperation benefits […]
The Federal Trade Commission is dropping lawsuits pursued under the tenure of former chair Lina Khan in favor of those more aligned with the new Trump administration‘s priorities. The new FTC under Chairman Andrew Ferguson has dropped price discrimination and antitrust lawsuits against big companies while launching new ones to investigate alleged bias against conservatives […]
The Trump administration is renewing a push to dismantle the decades-old Flores Settlement Agreement, arguing in a court filing Thursday that the policy has become one of the biggest incentives for illegal immigration and a roadblock to effective border enforcement. The Department of Justice, joined by the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human […]
(The Center Square) – The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union advocacy group, ran a full-page ad imploring the Los Angeles City Council to not adopt a $30 hotel minimum wage, citing state data showing the city lost 11,000 hotel jobs in 2024 despite a growing population. The $30 minimum wage would apply to hotels […]
(The Center Square) – Colorado’s unemployment rate was unchanged in April, even though the state gained 8,400 nonfarm jobs. The state’s 4.8% unemployment rate, the same as it was in March, also indicates a shift in trends. “This unemployment rate is also the highest it has been since September 2021, when it was 4.9%, and […]
