When Biden took office, inflation was running below the Fed's two percent target. It only took off after he pushed through his $1.9 trillion stimulus package. | Economy
There’s a template that media outlets love to follow to gin up outrage over someone who has to face the consequences of his or her actions. It could be a whistleblower or someone who took a stand for some questionable or foolish reason, but the headline always follows a pattern: “So-and-so did something. Now so-and-so is paying for it.”
In this close election, Trump is fighting for life.
Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson raised concerns Friday about the integrity of US elections in a joint appearance at Mar-a-Lago that featured false claims about voting, immigration and other topics. Trump’s team billed the event as being about “election integrity”– a phrase he often uses to describe the lie that the 2020 election was rigged, as well as his unfounded claims about future mass voter fraud. Here’s a breakdown of some of the false claims from their...
A 2.7 magnitude earthquake hit Richland, Washington, Friday evening, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Tremors were felt in Kennewick, Tri-Cities and Olympia. The earthquake struck Washington at 9:18 p.m. at a shallow depth of eight miles. According to Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN), this is the first notable earthquake to happen within the Tri-Cities since a 3.1 magnitude quake shook up Pasco in 1975.Volcano Discovery, a website tracking earthquakes, received...
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Democrats are somehow routinely shocked when their partisan power grabs are met with GOP retaliation despite the Democratic Party coming out on the worse end of these exchanges several times in the past decade. The GOP retaliation now is taking the form of Ohio and Alabama threatening to exclude President Joe Biden from the ballot […]
On Tuesday, late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel delivered another monologue making fun of former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday morning, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee fired back on social media — in part by attacking Kimmel for something Kimmel didn’t do. Trump, calling Kimmel “stupid,” blasted the comedian for his general performance as host of the Academy Awards in March and specifically for having read aloud, from the stage, Trump’s mid-show social media post...
"Brutal" Brittany Sheehan is a Las Vegas based mother, policy advocate and grassroots leader. From her roots in California's medical freedom movement, she worked to defeat vaccine legislation in Nevada. Brittany was strong and early opposition to CA's AB5, co-authoring an Assembly ethics complaint and going on to write an economic bill for independent contractors in Nevada. Brittany organized one of the first pandemic shutdown protests in the nation on Easter Sunday 2020 and was instrumental in...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) was fact-checked by Fox News about former President Donald Trump's administration after she attacked Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama. During a Sunday interview, Mace lashed out at Biden for what she said was a weak stance on Iran following attacks on Israel. "Well, I mean, look, just a few weeks ago on March 13th, Joe Biden and his administration allowed a waiver of sanctions to the tune of $10 billion in cold, hard cash that would allow Iran to access that...
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The first six jurors were selected in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial on Tuesday afternoon, after a two-day process, whittled down from a potential 96 potential candidates.