By Mimi Nguyen Ly The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would enable mail-in ballots for federal elections to be tracked. “This bill would require that any ballot mailed in a federal election include a postal service barcode on the envelop that is unique to the individual ballot,” Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, […]
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FBI Director Wray Defends Using Bureau Jet to Go on Vacation
By Zachary Stieber FBI Director Christopher Wray on Nov. 17 defended leaving a congressional hearing abruptly and using an official bureau jet to go on vacation after telling a senator he was attending to business. Wray, a Trump appointee, confirmed under questioning by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) that he flew to Saranac Lake in New York from an Aug. 4 […]
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Inflation Outpacing US Wages Creating Worst Pay Drop in 25 Years
By Autumn Spredemann Residents in the United States have less to celebrate on payday as inflation-adjusted wages endure the harshest pay cut in a quarter century, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The bank’s report revealed the median decline in real wages was a little more than 8.5 percent for most of the U.S. workforce in the past 12 […]
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Pelosi Makes Major Announcement About Political Future After Democrats Lose House
By Zachary Stieber House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Nov. 17 announced she would step down from the House Democrat leadership after Republicans flipped the lower chamber. “Scripture teaches us that for everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven,” Pelosi said on the House floor in Washington. “For me, the hour’s come […]
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After Republicans Win the House, Will they Investigate Hunter Biden’s China Connections?
By Jeff Carlson News Analysis With Republicans regaining control over the House the focus is on if and how the promised investigations by lawmakers will materialize. Prior to the Midterms, Republican lawmakers promised investigations into a variety of topics, such as COVID-19, the economy, the border crisis, as well as the foreign business dealings of […]
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Donald Trump Launches 2024 Bid for White House
By Ivan Pentchoukov PALM BEACH, Fla.—Former President Donald Trump commenced his third campaign for the White House on Nov. 15. Trump, 76, who had hinted at a 2024 run for more than a year, announced the presidential bid in a prime-time speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “In order to make America great and glorious again I am […]
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Fauci’s Pandemic Leadership Needs to be Investigated: Dr. Scott Atlas
By Eva Fu Former White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Scott Atlas sees multiple reasons for an investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci, the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Such a probe has been in the talks as Republicans inch closer to a House majority that would grant them subpoena powers. Some GOP lawmakers have […]
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Trump on Anticipated 2024 Bid: Will Keep Everyone in ‘Massive Suspense’
By Eva Fu NEW YORK—Former President Donald Trump is again hinting about a third presidential run despite some resistance from his inner circle, saying that he will keep people in “massive suspense.” “We’ll be making a statement on Tuesday night, we’ll see,” he told a crowd of hundreds on the night of Nov. 13 at […]
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Teach the Constitution: Democrat Attorney Who Halted Hochul’s Quarantine Camp Regulation
By Jan Jekielek and Masooma Haq In what she has called a David versus Goliath battle, New York real estate lawyer Bobbie Anne Cox sued Governor Kathleen Hochul for issuing directives mandating quarantine for people exposed to or infected with highly contagious diseases such as COVID-19. The directives, dubbed “quarantine camp regulations,” have been compared to laws that relocated […]
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Gingrich: GOP Got Nearly 6 Million More Votes but Lost Many Races, ‘What’s Going On?’
By Eva Fu Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been in politics for decades, and never has an election bewildered him as much as the 2022 midterms. “I’ve never been as wrong as I was this year,” Gingrich, an Epoch Times contributor, said on Nov. 10. “It makes me challenge every model I’m aware of, and realize […]
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Diesel Prices Keep Climbing, Making Inflation Harder to Root Out
By Naveen Athrappully With diesel prices remaining elevated, inflation is becoming that much harder to bring under control, placing more financial burden on American consumers. Vehicles like trucks, tractors, trains, barges, and construction equipment—which are part of the commercial traffic—are mostly run on diesel. As such, the fuel is intricately linked to consumer inflation as […]
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Kean Ousts Malinowski in Rematch, Gives GOP a Red Seat in a Blue State
By John Haughey Republican state Sen. Tom Kean, Jr., who came within 1 percentage point of winning the seat two years ago, has ousted two-term incumbent Rep. Tom Malinowski’s (D-N.J.) in New Jersey’s Congressional District 7 (CD 7), picking up a key red win in a blue state. According to results posted by the New Jersey Secretary of […]
