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Continuing claims, which are claims made after the initial filing for jobless benefits, fell by 126,000, data from the Department of Labor showed Friday. The fall in claims was significant because it followed a decline of 117,000 in the prior week. Steepening of declines, in which claims fall for two weeks in a row compared…
A Michigan Republican Party official who blamed former President Donald Trump for losing the 2020 election has stepped down. Jason Roe, who became the executive director of the Michigan GOP in February, told news outlets he stepped down and informed Chairman Ron Weiser. “I resigned my position as executive director and the reasons will remain…
Suspects linked to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise received U.S. military training, the Pentagon said Thursday. The Pentagon said Thursday that a review of its training databases indicated that a “small number of the Colombian individuals detained as part of this investigation had participated in past U.S. military training and education programs, while…
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday that would block the import of all products from China’s northwestern region, where at least 1 million Uyghurs and ethnic minorities are being held in secretive “political reeducation” camps. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan measure, would create a “rebuttable presumption” assuming goods manufactured…
Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Cori Bush of Missouri have yet to weigh in on Black Lives Matter declaring its support for Cuba’s communist regime, even though the congresswomen have been vocal BLM supporters in the past. Black Lives Matter sparked a backlash late Wednesday after posting a…
The State Department defended its head of Cuba policy, saying both the U.S. and Cuba are better for her service despite Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., claiming she was responsible for the Biden administration’s “weak” response to how the Cuban government is treating its people. In a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Rubio called on…
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is the senior liberal-leaning member of the court, and at least for now he intends to keep it that way. The 82-years-old jurist has said that he does plan to retire at some point, but in an interview with CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic, Breyer made it clear that…
It may be July of 2021, but the 2022 midterm elections are already in full swing, with contenders announcing their candidacies, fundraising well underway, and campaign ads already running. With the Senate currently split 50-50 between the two major parties but the Democrats holding a razor thin majority due to the tie-breaking vote of Vice…
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas rejected an appeal late Tuesday to remove the federal mask mandate for public transportation, according to reports. The emergency request was brought by a man who said a generalized anxiety disorder prevented him from wearing a mask and he was unable to board a flight leaving Orlando, Florida, last month,…
