WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell will enter this week’s Federal Reserve meeting in a much more desirable position than he likely ever expected: Inflation is getting close to the Fed‘s target rate, the economy is still growing at a healthy pace, consumers keep spending and the unemployment rate is near a half-century low. A […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A group of conservative state lawmakers in Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging three voting-related executive branch actions designed to boost voter registration, including a 2021 executive order by President Joe Biden. The lawsuit is expected to be one of many to litigate voting and election rules in a battleground state […]
Two key lawmakers are pressing for more answers as the Pentagon inspector general prepares to investigate funding of risky virus research in China, a probe mandated under the defense authorization law signed last month by President Biden. Amid questions about China’s handling of the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 and early 20202, a section of […]
A federal judge who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama has sentenced former Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro to four months in federal prison. Navarro was indicted on charges of contempt of Congress in 2022 after he refused to respond to a subpoena from the partisan House select committee that […]
The FBI ran afoul of the Fourth Amendment when it opened safety deposit boxes of California residents and checked the contents, according to a federal circuit court ruling this week. In an opinion issued Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the FBI in its probe into US Private Vaults infringed on its […]
The federal government has changed the regulations that require informed consent for medical experiments. If a review board decides that informing people of risks will interfere with medical research, it can waive the requirement. No, this is not a conspiracy theory. You can find the change right there in the federal register. The rules change […]
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a blistering statement aimed at President Joe Biden and his administration Wednesday in which he declared his state would protect itself amid the ongoing border crisis. Abbott also slammed Biden personally and stated in no uncertain terms that Texas has every legal right to protect its own borders and […]
JACKSON, Miss. — Approximately 40 people with connections to multiple states and Mexico were arrested Tuesday after a four-year federal investigation exposed multiple drug trafficking operations in east Mississippi, federal prosecutors announced. In 10 federal indictments filed in the U.S. Southern District of Mississippi, those arrested are accused of distributing methamphetamine, cocaine and other illegal […]
A Maryland woman whose autistic daughter was raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant and gang member, according to police, is suing the Biden administration for failing to enforce the country’s border security laws. Tammy Nobles is arguing that the federal government’s open border policies resulted in her daughter’s death at the hands of a […]
Nineteen federal appellate judges are scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on whether Mississippi can continue to permanently strip voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes for which they have served a complete sentence. Source link
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