House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) avoided questions during an interview on Wednesday regarding former President Joe Biden‘s declining mental acuity while in office and its subsequent cover-up. The questions stem from the new book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, written by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex […]
Kraft-Heinz is the latest American company to announce plans to boost manufacturing. The company, best known for brands such as Heinz, Oscar Mayer, and JELL-O, said it would invest $3 billion into its factories, generating 3,500 new construction jobs. The result will be the largest upgrade in over a decade. The decision follows President Donald […]
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) is pushing back after being caught dozing off during an all-night House hearing, saying she had been awake for nearly a day and a half fighting Republican efforts to cut Medicaid. “Been up for 31 hours straight fighting Republicans trying to gut Medicaid. Closed my eyes to think about an America […]
Amazon is dispatching lobbyists to statehouses around the country in a fight against legislation that could see states ordering fewer goods from China, raising vague but strong objections to the bills, flooding legislators with dubious amendments to bog down the process, and straining their relationships with lawmakers. “I’ve gone to Amazon and their lobbyists and […]
The high-stakes stand-off between India and Pakistan seems to be de-escalating after the United States brokered an immediate ceasefire between the two nuclear powers, but their bad blood has only continued to boil. Cross-border violence broke out last week as India conducted a series of strikes on Pakistan and its territory in Kashmir. The campaign, […]
A critical hotline linking air traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport with the Pentagon has been out of service since March 2022, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed on Wednesday. Deputy FAA Air Traffic Control chief Franklin McIntosh told senators at a Commerce Committee hearing that the problem was only uncovered after air traffic controllers at […]
The Taliban-controlled government of Afghanistan opened a “dialogue” with the United States as Congress voiced concern about the safety of Afghan refugees returning to their home country. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the revocation of temporary protected status for roughly 11,700 Afghan migrants in the U.S., putting them at risk of deportation. […]
Republicans’ battle over deductions for state and local taxes persists as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) looks to compromise with blue-state GOP lawmakers as the budget megabill cycles through committees. Though the Ways and Means Committee passed its tax legislation out of committee on Wednesday, it did so without a decision on SALT. Several blue-state Republicans […]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem repeatedly refused to answer on Wednesday whether a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which was used by President Donald Trump to claim Abrego Garcia was a member of the MS-13 gang, was doctored. Noem and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) got into a heated exchange about the picture during her testimony […]
As controversy continues to surround President Donald Trump‘s acceptance of a $400 million plane from Qatar, he touted another aviation deal with the Middle Eastern nation on Wednesday. Trump said during a signing ceremony that state-run Qatar Airways will buy 160 planes from Boeing, a U.S. manufacturer. According to the president, the contract is valued […]
