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Halperin: Democrats Were Stuck With Harris In 2024 After Biden Exit, Lack Of Alternatives
VP Kamala Harris
Veteran political journalist Mark Halperin shed new light Friday on the internal Democratic Party chaos that led to Vice Presiden [...]
Economist Steve Moore Blames China For Market Turmoil, Calls Retaliatory Tariffs An ‘Economic Declaration Of War’
US And Chinese Flags. Photo Source: Liu Pengyu, Spokesperson of Chinese Embassy in the U.S.
Economist Steve Moore blamed China for Friday’s steep [...]
Duffy Says Feds Won’t Invest If Cities ‘Don’t Clean Up’ Act, Slams New York Governor Over Failed Transit
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy appeared on Fox News Friday and said his department won’t invest in [...]
Horace Cooper Says Letting AOC Run The Senate Is ‘Last Example Of Going Completely And Totally Crazy’
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
Horace Cooper of Project 21 said Friday on Fox News that Democrats’ final “crazy” straw would be put [...]
Meta To End Fact-Checking In The US, Shifts To “Community Notes” System
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta is set to discontinue its fact-checking program across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads on Monday, replacing it with a user-d [...]
Lawsuit Filed To Block Florida’s Anti-Illegal Immigrant Law
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (File)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and Americans for Immi [...]
US Supreme Court Halts Order To Restore Teacher Training Grants, Delivering Trump A Win
President Donald J. Trump
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday intervened in a dispute over federal teacher training grants, temporarily blocking a lo [...]
Florida Lawmakers Seek To Revamp FEMA, Restore Independence
Flooding in Hillsborough County (HCFR)
In a move aimed at streamlining federal emergency response, Representatives Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Jared [...]
Op-Ed: Tech’s Double-Edged Sword: Is Convenience Eroding Literacy?
By Thomas R. Cuba, Ph.D. Technology (File)
Technology has had a great influence on virtually every aspect of American life. One of the most obviou [...]
U.S. Jobs Surge In March As Trump Policies Spark Growth, Though Federal Cuts And Voter Doubts Persist
President Donald Trump
The U.S. economy roared ahead in March, adding 228,000 jobs—well above the 140,000 economists had forecast—according to the [...]