A customer makes a purchase at Shell Lumber and Hardware in Miami, Florida, on July 13. Inflation cooled to 8.5 percent in July from a year ago, an improvement from 9.1 percent in June. | Joe...
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, many pundits and politicians were eager to describe the events of that day a s a coup d'etat in which the nation was "this...
"The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913," wrote Frank Chodorov. Indeed, a man's home used to be his castle. The income tax, however, gave the government the keys...
JACKSON, Miss (AP) — An incident involving a white Mississippi Highway Patrol officer and three Black men is under investigation after a viral video showed the officer putting a handcuffed man...
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON - A sweeping bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Sunday and intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, will bring down...
Billions in pandemic relief dollars were wasted or pocketed by scammers. How did that happen? Here's everything you need to know: Was COVID relief successful? In many ways, yes. It helped prevent...
Inflation is a complete and total bummer. | Steven Puetzer/Getty Images From chicken tenders to tampons, the price hikes that are irking people most. Peter Lewis recognizes that eggs...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Joe Manchin made the case on Wednesday for overhauling the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act, pushing for quick passage of a bipartisan...
The United States is going to start making more of its own electronics, and taxpayers are going to pick up a good chunk of the tab. Congress has passed the CHIPS Act, a bill that devotes billions...
President Joe Biden speaks about the economy and inflation at the Port of Los Angeles on June 10. Inflation is a political struggle for Biden, but the decisions that could break supply chain...
NPR's Asma Khalid talks to David Wessel of the Brookings Institution about the partial closing of the "carried interest loophole," central to a Senate compromise over climate spending and health care.
BAGHDAD (AP) — With mattresses strewn about, food trucked in and protesters playacting as lawmakers, hundreds of followers of an influential Shiite cleric were camped out Sunday inside the Iraqi...
Georgia Linders got sick with COVID in the spring of 2020 and never recovered. Her ongoing battle with long COVID has prevented her from working. She spends her days advocating for COVID...
For the first time in about two decades, the euro’s value is about that of a US dollar. | Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images The soaring value of the US dollar has broad...
President Joe Biden walks to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on June 25, as he headed to Germany to attend the Group of Seven Summit last month. | Susan Walsh/AP ...
Lia Lao for Vox Remote work, the arrival of home-owning millennials, and other forces can be an opportunity to remake them for the better. Part of the July 2022 issue of The Highlight,...
Democrats Prepare To Unleash Hell On Fed Chair Powell For The Coming Recession Something curious took place a month ago during Powell's semi-annual testimony before a (still-Democrat...
Growth is already slowing in response to the Fed’s repeated interest rate increases. But with inflation proving persistent at a four-decade high, analysts say it will take a recession -- and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Soon after taking office, President Joe Biden went to State Department headquarters to tell the rest of the world that the United States could be counted on again after four...
Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was elected as the new President of Sri Lanka addresses the media during his visit to the Gangaramaya Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 20, 2022. | Pradeep...
Workers In Red States Are Quitting Their Jobs At Higher Rates And Why That May Be A Good Sign Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Employees in...
By David Morgan WASHINGTON - During weeks of hearings about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters, Republican Representative Liz Cheney has sat shoulder-to-shoulder...
The Federal Reserve has attempted to avoid a recession by engineering what's known as a "soft landing" Some economists argue that recessions have become an inevitable part of the economic cycle...
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Former Marine Gen. John R. Allen led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan before he was tapped in 2017 to lead the Brookings Institution in Washington.
The prestigious Brookings Institution placed its president, retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen, on administrative leave Wednesday amid a federal investigation into his role in an illegal...
Documents show that the Justice Department has records indicating that John Allen, who now heads the Brookings Institution, secretly lobbied for Qatar and lied about it to federal agents.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke at the Brookings Institution. He said inflation today is still a long haul away from that of the 1970s. Inflation is near a four-decade high,...
Global banks reveal billions in potential Russia-linked losses. With Russia's economy collapsing,its stock market cryogenically frozen and its bonds near default, global investors are set to...
The potential for interference between 5G signals and the radio altimeters long used by pilots has divided the telecom and aviation industries. The clash has been years in the making and came to a...
