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The Biden administration built on its effort to cultivate close ties to prominent figures within the labor sector this week with President Biden’s decision to nominate Richard Trumka Jr. to a seat on the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Trumka Jr.’s father, Richard Trumka, is the longtime president of AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor union. AFL-CIO…
Five members of a family were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly breaching the Capitol building through a broken window on Jan. 6 when the joint session of Congress was certifying the presidential election results. Joshua Munn, 24, was arrested in Melrose, Wisconsin. He was released after an initial federal court appearance in Madison, Wisconsin. His…
President Joe Biden “poured gasoline on that fire” with his criticism Tuesday in Philadelphia of election reforms in Arizona, Georgia, Texas and other states, according to former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. “The President poured gasoline on that fire, he’s dividing us further and he undermines the credibility of those advocating for a federal takeover…
Powell said Wednesday that he expects inflation, which has been rising by much more than expected for the past four months, “will likely remain elevated in coming months” before “moderating.” This is an indication that the Fed is not ready to change course from its declared plan to keep rates low for an extended period…
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said on Wednesday that the $3.5 trillion budget proposal by Democrats in Congress will include a number of top liberal priorities – including pathways to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. Jayapal said during a press call that the resolution will include a pathway to citizenship for “Dreamers, TPS, essential workers,…
Engadget reports that Twitter has introduced yet another new feature to its platform. Over the past year, Twitter has introduced a number of features allowing users to curate who can reply to their tweets, for instance only allowing users that they follow to reply. The new feature comes despite the company’s failure to add an…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued an amicus brief Wednesday with 16 other GOP-led states in support of the recent Arkansas ban on ‘experimental’ transition-related care for transgender minors. The brief outlined why top legal officials in 17 states supported the controversial ban implemented in April. “We are filing this brief because, like Arkansas, we…
At least 12 confidential informants helped the FBI build a case against men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan’s governor, according to a new court filing. In the ongoing federal case against five defendants, the government has identified at least a dozen such sources by number, a lawyer for one of the defendants wrote in…
In an interview with BBC News, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that he believes the free and open internet is under attack; a statement which many may find ironic given Google and YouTube’s regular censorship of content on its platforms, including the purging of Breitbart News from search results leading up to the 2020 election….
