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Sep 06 2022
News
Russia buying North Korean rockets and artillery, U.S. intelligence says
Russia's Ministry of Defense is buying millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea to aid its war in Ukraine, according to recently downgraded intelligence, a U.S. official confirmed to Axios on Tuesday.
Why it matters: "This purchase indicates that the Russian military continues to suffer from severe supply shortages in Ukraine, due in part to export controls and
Axios
Sep 28 2022
News
Biden on ending hunger in US: ‘I know we can do this’
President Joe Biden said Wednesday his administration’s goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by the end of the decade was ambitious but doable, if only the nation would work together toward achieving it.
“I know we can do this,” Biden told an auditorium full of public health officials, private companies and Americans who have experienced hunger. They were gathered for the first White House
Associated Press
Jun 22 2022
News
Janet Yellen Admits Things Are About To Get Worse
Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen said that she anticipates the “economy to slow” during a Sunday morning interview on “This Week.”
Host George Stephanopoulos cited a new Wall Street Journal report from Sunday that said economists expect the likelihood of a recession to be 44% within the next year.
“Is that what you expect as well?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“Well, I expect the
The Daily Caller
Jul 25 2022
Opinion
A bill to prevent Trump’s attempted coup is finally ready — and must pass
That President Donald Trump attempted to steal the 2020 election is scary enough; that he or another candidate could steal it next time around remains a terrifying threat. This is what makes the passage of a just-introduced bipartisan proposal to reform the Electoral Count Act so essential.
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) have been laboring for months to
Washington Post
Apr 12 2022
Opinion
Democrats' Bidenflation disaster
You've seen the news — the government says inflation rose 8.5% in March compared to last year. That is up from the annual inflation rate last month, which was 7.9%. Both are the worst since 1981.
There are a lot of stories behind the big number. Inflation is up in every area of the economy. But the worst news concerns some very fundamental human activities: eating, finding warmth and
Byron York
Jun 20 2022
News
Biden officials downplay recession risk — despite experts’ warnings
Top officials in the Biden administration made the rounds on the Sunday news shows to tout the strength of the economy and downplay the likelihood of a recession — an assessment at odds with that of some CEOs and economists.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claimed on ABC that a recession is not inevitable, though she foresees the US economy slowing down in the months ahead.
“Well
New York Post (News)
Jul 24 2022
News
Yellen says economy shows no signs of recession
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that growing consumer spending, industrial output, credit quality and other economic indicators don’t suggest the economy is in a recession, although she acknowledged that “way too high” inflation is straining the system.
“This is not an economy that is in recession,” Yellen told moderator Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The Hill
Apr 01 2021
News
Weekly jobless claims rise back above 700K
Weekly jobless claims rose above 700,000 last week after briefly dipping below the pre-pandemic record for the first time since March 2020, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
In the week ending March 27, the seasonally adjusted number of new applications for unemployment insurance rose to 719,000 from the previous week’s revised total of 658,000.
Last week’s increase brings
The Hill
Oct 21 2022
Opinion
The Lasting Trauma of Abortion
"You won't hurt me this time, will you? Not do what you did last time?" In the controversial new Netflix film Blonde, that is the question that a realistic depiction of an unborn child asks her mother, Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, portrayed in the film by actress Ana De Armas. Blonde purports to tell the life story of Marilyn Monroe through vignettes of trauma, two of which are abortions she
Guest Writer - Right
Oct 04 2022
Fact Check
Fact-checking the Texas governor debate between Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke
Gov. Greg Abbott and challenger Beto O’Rourke clashed over a range of topics Friday night in their sole debate, not always with the facts on their side.
Some fact-checks:
Abortion
Abbott depicted O’Rourke as an extremist on abortion.
“He not only supports abortion of a fully developed child to the very last second before birth” but, said Abbott, he opposes “
The Dallas Morning News