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A survey released by Empower on Friday showed that almost half of respondents were willing to take a pay cut or give up a raise for more retirement benefits. about retirement benefits, here.
Even with the potential for error and a decline in voter engagement, polls can explain the electorate at a point in timeIn recent months, polling has generally showed President Joe Biden running behind his Republican challenger, Donald Trump, by a small margin, particularly in swing states like Georgia and Arizona. But election polling began to fluctuate after Biden’s State of the Union speech last month.The question is how much meaning observers should ascribe to polls in April, seven months...
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday reminded globalists on Capitol Hill pushing foreign aid that no one speaks for him but himself.
Donald Trump was one of the biggest spending presidents of all time, and he helped cause the current inflation numbers, according to a former official from his administration on Wednesday. Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who has claimed his home was targeted by a break-in shortly after he published a scathing "Anonymous" op-ed about Trump's presidency, Wednesday evening appeared on MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle. He was asked about the revisionist history of Trump...
With cat-like reflexes, Donald Trump has weighed in on Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars bit — from March 10 of this year — that riffed on a social media post by the former POTUS. On Wednesday morning, amidst his recently commenced criminal trial, Trump fired off a Truth Social post about “Stupid Jimmy Kimmel,” first incorrectly claiming […]
A New York appeals court has denied Donald Trump’s petition to change the venue of his upcoming hush money trial. The former president’s attorneys on Monday had urged the court to postpone the trial so it could consider whether to change the venue, arguing that Trump cannot get a fair jury in New York. But Associate Justice Lizbeth González quickly denied the motion to stop the trial after hearing arguments Monday, and there is no further argument on the motion to change the venue. Trump’s...
According to an Italian food historian, tomato sauce on pizza was invented in America, not Italy - and veteran pizzaiolos in Rome are furious at the claim.Professor Alberto Grandi of the University of Parma in Italy argues that "pizza rossa" - or red pizza with tomato sauce - was invented when Italian immigrants took advantage of newly discovered ingredients on American soil to improve them.The food historian describes the alleged origins of pizza in his and Daniele Soffiati's book "La Cucina...
The massive single-day haul supports Donald Trump's belief that his legal challenges might come back and haunt Democrats.
Customs and Border Protection officers seized over 1 million fentanyl pills at the Nogales Port of Entry between March 26th and 29th
As the Democrat Party and its quasi-official state media continue to melt into puddles of histrionic goo because of the stark reality that Donald J. Trump might very well again be elected president of the United States in November, articles about their hysterics get more and more fun to write.
New Jersey has been hit by more than 45 aftershocks following last week’s 4.8-magnitude earthquake — including one that rattled the Garden State on Wednesday morning. The 2.6-magnitude