Democrats have touted the infrastructure bill Congress passed in 2021 as a signature accomplishment of the Biden-Harris administration, but some of its ambitious projects have fallen far short of expectations nearly three years after President Joe Biden signed it into law. A massive program to expand rural broadband access has failed so far to connect […]
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that “veering off course” in the 2024 election could inflict significant damage on the economy. Yellen said that there were several signs of life in the economy under the Biden-Harris administration, and that turning away from those successes in November could “jeopardize our economic trajectory,” in a tacit endorsement […]
Israel and Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, with Israeli warplanes carrying out the most intense bombardment in almost a year of conflict across Lebanon’s south and Hezbollah firing rockets deep into northern Israel.Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said strikes would continue until it was safe for evacuated people in the north to return – […]
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said on Sunday former President Trump is “just deranged” after he said women won’t be thinking about abortion if he’s elected in November. “That’s just ludicrous,” Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, said in an interview on “State of the Union” with CNN’s Jake Tapper about Trump’s remarks. She […]
Donald Trump on Saturday rejected another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris before the U.S. presidential election, hours after the Democratic candidate’s campaign said she had agreed to an Oct. 23 matchup with her Republican rival on CNN. “Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald Trump, and she […]
For years, Hezbollah leaders urged their rank-and-file to reduce reliance on smartphones, arguing that Israel was able to bug those devices to infiltrate their communication network. The alternative was to go back to the 1990s-era technology of pagers and walkie-talkies, seen as a safer option. Hezbollah believed that the limited capabilities of pagers allowed them […]
n the 1940s, people like had to travel to small board meetings or public spaces to speak their mind. Today, the vast majority of political speech occurs over the Internet and specifically social media. That is why the internet is the single greatest advancement for free speech since the printing press. It is also the […]
Signs of a third full-blown war between Israel and the U.S.-designated terrorist movement, Hezbollah, which runs a state-within-a-state in Lebanon, are rapidly solidifying. Israel has fought two previous wars against terrorist forces embedded in Lebanon, in 1982 and 2006, and a third war appears to be looming. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) re-deployed its elite and […]
At a campaign event with Oprah Winfrey, Vice President Kamala Harris repeated that she is a gun owner and tried to convince voters she has flip-flopped on a gun confiscation plan with a new anecdote. Winfrey hosted a livestreamed town hall filled with celebrities from Michigan with Harris. There, Winfrey told her she was surprised […]
Diplomats have been scrambled to ease tensions in the Middle East after electronic devices linked to Hezbollah members exploded in attacks blamed on Israel that killed dozens and propelled the region toward all-out conflict. The attacks on the Islamist group’s pagers and walkie-talkies killed 37 people and wounded about 3,000. They were believed to be […]
A second judge refused to grant bail to Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday and he could remain in federal custody at a Brooklyn detention center until his trial for sex trafficking charges. Combs joins other high-profile inmates, such as singer R. Kelly, fallen cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, rapper Ja Rule —even Al Sharpton served a […]
Walkie-talkies exploded in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in a second wave of attacks targeting devices a day after pagers used by Hezbollah blew up, state media and officials for the militant group said. At least 20 people were killed and more than 450 wounded in the second wave, the Health Ministry […]
