(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 […]
HERE ARE THE LAWSUITS TARGETING TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDERS President Donald Trump is signing executive orders to boost nuclear power at 1 p.m. These initiatives will streamline the regulatory approval process for new reactors and bolster the nuclear fuel supply chain, according to Reuters.
BERLIN (AP) — An assailant stabbed people at the central railway station in the German city of Hamburg on Friday, injuring 12 people — six of them critically, authorities said. A suspect in the attack was arrested, police said in a post on the social network X on Friday evening. Hamburg’s fire service said that […]
The Kremlin is unenthusiastic about President Donald Trump’s proposal for the Vatican to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Trump proposed in a Monday statement on social media that Pope Leo XIV host delegations in Vatican City and play a mediating role in establishing a ceasefire. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed Friday that the United States can ‘retool’ the nickel following an announcement that the Treasury Department will cease all penny production by early 2026. “I think we can retool the nickel and change the composition of the alloys so that a nickel is worth a nickel,” Bessent said during an appearance […]
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday granted Harvard University‘s request to temporarily block the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to strip the institution of its ability to enroll foreign students. Judge Allison Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said Harvard had successfully shown “it will sustain immediate and irreparable […]
Vulnerable Republicans will be routed in elections if they end up cutting healthcare to pay for tax cuts, according to a new warning memo from President Donald Trump’s pollster. But, said the firm Fabrizio Ward, there is a path that can instead give those same Republicans a huge and much-needed boost — getting Medicaid and […]
The commissioner of the St. Louis City Emergency Management Agency, Sarah Russell, has been placed on paid administrative leave after failing to sound the warning siren during the tornadoes last Friday that killed five people. Mayor Cara Spencer reported that there is now an active external investigation regarding the team’s failure to press the city’s […]
President Donald Trump misidentified images of victims from the war between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels during a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. On Wednesday, Trump presented Ramaphosa with evidence of persecution against white South African farmers. This included a video montage of South African politician Julius Malema […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that President Donald Trump‘s threat of a 25% tariff against Apple if it doesn’t move iPhone production to the United States is about bringing back “precision manufacturing.” “The president is trying to bring back precision manufacturing to the U.S.,” Bessent said during an appearance on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “I […]
