A month ago, another installment in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series was released, an attempt to modernize the horror franchise while still harkening back to its gritty 1970s roots. It was a creative failure, too reliant on digitally enhanced gore and thudding callbacks. The task of matching an all-time classic seemed impossible.
The state is a poster child for how rural areas are suffering disproportionately amid the pandemic in the worst public health crisis in a century.
The first-of-its-kind proposal from Missouri lawmakers would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident have an abortion.
If a new coronavirus variant surges in the United States this year—perhaps the one currently tearing through Europe—there’s a reasonable chance that the country will be unprepared to fight it. You can thank Congress for that.Last week, lawmakers passed a massive spending bill without any additional funding for COVID-19 relief, despite White House pleas for more. Democrats would like to fulfill the administration’s request.
“Like I’ve been saying, Biden’s weakness on the world stage is emboldening bad actors,” sneered the Fox News host after quoting the Kremlin.
The stadium event was the Russian president’s “best attempt to look like Donald Trump,” said the Fox News personality.
FDA is set to convene its advisory committee of vaccine experts next month to deliberate how to approach Covid booster shots.
Over the past two years, the U.S. has experienced Covid waves similar to those in Europe — only several weeks later.
Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, will lead the White House’s Covid-19 response.
Easier access to vaccines at center of Biden administration’s WHO effort ahead of future public health emergencies, document reveals.
Some Americans might have to pay out of pocket for therapeutics if Congress doesn’t pass a new Covid funding bill.
The increase reported by the Labor Department reflected the 12 months ending in February and didn’t include most of the oil and gas price increases that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb.
The Fed is already expected to begin a campaign of interest rate increases next month in a bid to remove its support for economic growth amid a blistering job market and rapidly rising prices.
“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” Biden said at the White House.
The burst of jobs came despite a wave of Omicron inflections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed.
Congress needs to create a new safety net for such lenders — not let regulators squeeze them out of business.
President Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal for the first time Wednesday for atrocities in Ukraine, as the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on whether Russian forces have been using cluster munitions in populated areas in Ukraine. Cluster bombs explode in midair and spew hundreds of smaller “bomblets.” The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said their use in Ukraine may amount to war crimes.
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth week, Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have increasingly attacked civilian areas to pound Ukrainian cities into submission, a strategy Russia has employed to devastating effect in Syria, where the Russian Air Force has bombed many cities to rubble in an effort to support the government of Bashar al-Assad since entering the war in 2015.
Russia’s top diplomat had some warm words for the conservative network, whose prime-time personality Tucker Carlson has repeated pro-Kremlin talking points.
Russia’s top diplomat had some warm words for the conservative network, whose prime-time personality Tucker Carlson has repeated pro-Kremlin talking points.
This map shows us the gains by each side in the last seven days. Red are Russian gains, blue are Ukrainian gains.
If you’re wondering, yeah, that’s pretty much nothing. Russia consolidated some territory northwest of Kyiv, while Ukraine pushed Russia out of western Kyiv suburbs. There were offensives reported there last few days, and looks like they did good work—important because it pushes Russia outside of artillery range of central Kyiv.
He’s accused of delaying declaring his candidacy, even as he campaigns, in order to dodge surveillance of donations and expenditures, as required by law.
Hello all you Friday folks. It’s been another week following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Whether or not a peace can be negotiated in the near future remains to be seen. At the same time, the Biden administration got some good news about the tools with which they hope to create better environmental policy, but also continue to feel the well-deserved pressure to get more done from Democratic officials facing upcoming elections.
The Republican was the longest-serving member of the 117th Congress, holding the state’s single congressional seat for 48 years.
During a keynote session at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, popular singer Lizzo shared her views against Texas’ abortion ban.
“The abortion ban is atrocious,” she said on March 13, according to Rolling Stone. “Mind your business. Stay out of my body.
Just last month, Greene spoke at a white nationalist conference where the Russian president was hailed and the audience chanted his name.
Josh Mandel, who’s being usurped as the early front-runner, appears to use the insult against investment banker Mike Gibbons during a heated exchange.
On Thursday, the House voted 424-8 to suspend normal trade relations with Russia in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. Congress rarely achieves that kind of consensus on anything, unless the vote is for not telling Ted Cruz about the weekly after-work happy hour, but Ukraine’s plight has united Americans—on both sides of the aisle—like nothing else in years.
The Biden administration on Thursday released its draft guidance on addressing the more than 130,000 orphaned oil wells across the country—a number the government admits reflects a massive undercounting of wells whose former operators cannot be located. The guidance includes what is required when states apply for initial grants, such as detailed budget proposals and disclosure of any lobbying activities, along with best practices like state plugging standards.
In economic-speak, the Ukraine crisis has been a “supply shock.” In English, that means that in the United States you’ll now find record-high gas prices, liquor stores devoid of Russian vodka, and … uhh … Americans heading into their local banks and politely asking for hundreds of dollars in nickels.Let me explain.