Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recently went on the defense regarding his two month paternity leave. During an interview Monday with MSNBC, he said the leave was demanding work rather than a vacation. The former South Bend mayor and his husband, Chasten, adopted twins in mid-August, prompting Buttigieg to take his aforementioned leave. He first […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has tested positive for COVID-19, DHS confirmed on Tuesday – just days after he attended an event with President Biden. A DHS spokesperson told Fox News that contact tracing was underway after Mayorkas tested positive Tuesday morning. “Secretary Mayorkas is experiencing only mild congestion; he is fully vaccinated and will […]
Nearly 9 in 10 large employers believe some of their workers will quit their jobs over the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine-or-test mandate, according to a survey from the Society for Human Resource Management released Monday. The survey reveals uneasiness among employers over the impending workplace rule, which will require employers with 100 or more employees […]
Biden said it had been a historically difficult period for police, arguing that the wider public didn’t understand the difficulties and that the country would have a harder time finding people to be officers as a result. “I’ve been coming to this memorial for 40 years, missed a couple, and I’ve spoken to too many […]
The Biden administration said Friday it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September. It comes as the Texas clinics are running out of avenues to stop the GOP-engineered law that bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is […]
The Navy has set a timeline for all sailors to comply with mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations or provide a valid exemption, and it has set punishment for those who refuse to comply. All active-duty sailors must be fully vaccinated by Nov. 28, while those in the reserves have until Dec. 28, according to a Navy press […]
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to refer former Trump White House strategist Stephen Bannon to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution after he refused to appear for a slated deposition. Bannon informed the committee last week that he would refuse to comply with the subpoena, citing a yet-to-be-filed […]
The White House is discussing options to address fuel and natural gas shortages that have driven prices higher, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday. “The president has asked his economic team, as they do on any range of issues impacting the public, to continue to discuss what the options are that we […]
Shortages in the global supply chain are creating steep challenges for President Biden at a time when he’s already grappling with low approval ratings and major hurdles to getting his economic agenda through Congress. The White House sought to demonstrate that administration officials are tackling the supply chain disruptions head on with Wednesday’s announcement that […]
Americans’ inflation fears skyrocketed to another record high in September, driven by the rising price for an array of consumer goods, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey published Tuesday. The median expectation is that the inflation rate will be up 5.3% one year from now, the 11th consecutive monthly increase and […]
The Taliban said on Saturday they will not work with the U.S. to contain extremism in Afghanistan. Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told The Associated Press the group will independently deal with extremist groups such as the Islamic State. “We are able to tackle Daesh independently,” Shaheen said, using an Arabic acronym for the group. […]
If you hoped grocery stores this fall and winter would look like they did in the Before Times, with limitless options stretching out before you in the snack, drink, candy and frozen foods aisles, get ready for some disappointing news. Many of the country’s biggest food makers are telling grocers that they will have limited […]