Music superstar Jelly Roll testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday about the federal response to the fentanyl crisis. Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, spoke about his lived experience as both a drug dealer and an addict and explained how he sought to humanize addiction for the general public. DeFord also […]
Boeing is under investigation on whether the manufacturing of a door panel in a 737 met approved design standards. The investigation’s focus is on “plug”-type passenger doors as well as other discrepancies. These “plugs” may have caused a door panel to fall off an Alaska Airlines 737-9 MAX jetliner flight, forcing a ground landing in […]
Defense spending has fallen off a cliff under President Joe Biden, shrinking as a percentage of gross domestic product to pre-World War II budgets and the short-lived “peace dividend” days during former President Bill Clinton’s administration. According to a new budget analysis, the nation is spending just 3.6% of GDP — $866 billion — at […]
The White House urged Congress on Thursday to pass housing tax credits included in President Joe Biden’s annual budget request to lower out-of-control shelter costs for households. Shelter costs accounted for more than half of the increase in core inflation, which factors out volatile energy and food prices, in the December consumer price index, published […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has agreed to schedule an appearance at his impeachment hearing. A DHS official sent a letter to arrange possible dates for Mayorkas to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday to its chairman, Rep. Mark Green (R-TN). According to the letter, Mayorkas cannot attend the next impeachment hearing […]
Kelly Carlin, the daughter of the late George Carlin, has criticized a comedy special created using artificial intelligence to impersonate her father, who died in 2008. Carlin made the comment Wednesday evening, about a day after the comedy special titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead” was released on YouTube. Carlin stated that her father […]
Former President Donald Trump, barred by a judge from making closing arguments, was temporarily allowed to speak at the end of his civil business fraud trial, using the time to scold the New York attorney general who brought the case. “We have a situation where I’m an innocent man,” Trump told Judge Arthur Engoron, saying […]
Former Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan resigned from his leadership position at the centrist organization No Labels as speculation builds about a 2024 presidential bid. In a letter sent Dec. 15 to No Labels President and CEO Nancy Jacobson, Hogan said he would step down from his role as co-chairman of the organization, freeing him […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is demanding an investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over allegations of an “illegal conflict of interest” in the district’s against former President Donald Trump. In a letter sent to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and the state Attorney General Christopher Carr on Wednesday, Greene accused Willis of criminal […]
The early stages of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‘s investigation of former President Donald Trump‘s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election were aided by the now-defunct House committee that led a probe into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Lawyers and staff employed by Willis’s office met with staffers who worked […]
