Joe Biden is facing the potential loss of a part of his political base as a new poll indicated that a significant number of Black voters want a different Democratic presidential nominee in 2024. Biden has repeatedly said that he intends to run for a second term in 2024. Biden, 79, is the oldest president […]
Category: Domestic
‘Bad economy is Republicans fault’ tweets Biden
President Joe Biden is facing backlash for a tweet posted on his Twitter account that blamed Republicans for the country’s economic problems. “Republicans are doing nothing but obstructing our efforts to crack down on gas-price gouging, lower food prices, lower healthcare costs, and hopefully, soon, lower your prescription drug costs. This is not right. And […]
Mass protest by Chinese bank depositors, demanding their life savings back crushed
Chinese authorities on Sunday violently dispersed a peaceful protest by hundreds of depositors, who sought in vain to demand their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash crisis. Since April, four rural banks in China’s central Henan province have frozen millions of dollars worth of deposits, threatening the livelihoods of […]
Biden Begs for Oil in Saudi Arabia This Week
American Petroleum Institute (API) CEO Mike Sommers is urging Joe Biden to reconsider his energy policy ahead of the president’s visit to the oil-rich Middle East, arguing the administration should focus on expanding domestic energy sources instead of turning to foreign production. “While we appreciate the opportunity to open increased dialogue with the White House, […]
Biden signs executive order & calls for federal law to restore abortion rights
President Joe Biden has said a federal law would be the “fastest way” to restore abortion rights as he signed an order to safeguard abortion access. He called a recent Supreme Court abortion ruling, which ended the nationwide right to the procedure, “an exercise in raw political power”. It paved the way for individual US […]
Is Kamala OK? Another word salad dished up by VP
Vice President Kamala Harris was caught with another course of incoherent word salad, this time during an interview with CBS News. Following the historic Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, CBS News correspondent Robert Costa asked Harris on Friday whether Democrats both in the White House and in Congress “failed” to codify the […]
Under Pressure, Biden will sign executive order aimed at safeguarding abortion rights
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday aimed at protecting abortion rights in response to the landmark decision by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Biden will sign the executive order during a Roosevelt Room ceremony Friday morning. Vice President Kamala Harris is also scheduled to attend.There is no action the President […]
National Guard told to return immigrants to border
overnor Greg Abbott has directed the Texas National Guard and the state’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) to start returning migrants who crossed into the U.S. and were apprehended back to the border. In a news release Thursday, Abbott said that he issued an executive order “authorizing and empowering” the two entities to begin returning […]
Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe assassinated during campaign speech
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been assassinated in a shooting while giving a speech on a street in Nara in western Japan Friday morning, hospital officials confirmed hours later. Earlier Friday, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave an emotional press conference where he said Abe, 67, was in “severe condition” and he hopes […]
Thinking of buying an electric pickup to tow your trailer-think again
YouTube publisher Fast Lane Truck did a comparison between an electric and a gas-powered pickup to determine how far each could tow a 3-ton box trailer. The contestants were an electrified Ford F150 pickup vs. a GMC Denali Ultimate Edition with a 6.2-liter V-8 gas engine. The F150 made it only 85 miles before a […]
National Education Association teachers union “Mother out, Birthing Parent in”
The National Education Association proposed a resolution that would change the word “mother” in contracts to “birthing parent” for the purpose of being inclusive to the LGBTQIA+ community. The resolution would be voted on Wednesday by the Representative Assembly (RA), comprised of 6,000 educators, in Chicago as well as virtually. NEA’s resolutions represent the teachers’ […]
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson quits. Who will replace him?
A number of senior Conservative members of parliament may be considering running to become the next British prime minister after embattled incumbent Boris Johnson said on Thursday he would be resigning from his post. Johnson has been beset by a series of scandals during his premiership, including over parties that took place in Downing Street […]