House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy released a statement on Wednesday that he is seeing disturbing trends from the National Security Agency. Citing this concern, McCarthy asked House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Devin Nunes to investigate the matter. “For the past several months, I have seen a disturbing trend at the National Security Agency,” McCarthy … Read more
SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose officials have passed a new law that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee to cover taxpayers’ costs associated with gun violence. The law is the first in the U.S. and was unanimously approved by the City Council on Tuesday, a month after a disgruntled … Read more
Khan wrote a 2017 Yale Law Journal article entitled, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” in which she said, “We cannot cognize the potential harms to competition posed by Amazon’s dominance.” She advocated for either “restoring traditional antitrust and competition policy principles or applying common carrier obligations and duties.” Amazon is using these previous statements of Khan’s to … Read more
Nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming Americans will be able to choose a gender option other than “male” or “female” when applying for a U.S. passport, the State Department announced Wednesday. The policy change is part of the department’s effort to take “further steps toward ensuring the fair treatment of LGBTQI+ U.S. citizens, regardless of their gender … Read more
While a handful of California officials deliberate on how to best divvy up a historic $75 billion budget overflow, gas-powered vehicle owners will be paying more to fill up their tanks. The state’s motor fuel excise tax is set to increase Thursday, up six-tenths of a cent to more than 51 cents a gallon of … Read more
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, has reworked the greeting for its fireworks show at Magic Kingdom in order to be more inclusive. For many years, ahead of the nightly fireworks show — which returns Thursday after being on a lengthy hiatus due to the pandemic — an announcer issued this greeting: “Ladies and gentlemen, … Read more
On paper, a minimum wage increase may sound like a relief for workers, but it could actually mean smaller paychecks and cuts in benefits such as healthcare and retirement plans. Income and benefit cuts hurt women, people of color, and young people, who are most likely to be working minimum wage and retail jobs — … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris’ office is a toxic, ‘abusive’ environment where “people are thrown under the bus from the very top,’ according to 22 current and former staffers, administration officials and associates of Harris and President Biden. In a Politico exposé reminiscent of a Feb. 2019 New York Times in which over fifty current and … Read more
Just like Obama, its Joe’s time to weaponize the government against political opponents: (CNN)President Joe Biden will seek $80 billion to fund enhanced Internal Revenue Service enforcement of high-earners to help pay for his American Families Plan, which he is set to unveil later this week, two sources briefed on the proposal told CNN. The … Read more
A Canadian town nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains is not a place you would typically expect to have scorching, desertlike temperatures, but that is exactly what happened during the stretch of record-setting heat that continues to bake the region. During the stretch from Sunday, June 27, to Tuesday, June 29, Lytton, British … Read more