Trump’s EPA Appointees Kept Fired Employees On Payroll: Inspector General’s Report
Their “fraud” cost the agency $130,000, according to the OIG report. No charges were filed.
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Veterans Call On Their Insurance Co. To Yank Tucker Carlson Ads After He Calls Gen. Milley A ‘Pig’
“So USAA, is this who you advertise with?” asks a tweet by Veterans For Responsibility, referring to a major insurer of service members and veterans.
Cop Beaten In Capitol Riot Confronts Kevin McCarthy Over GOP Downplaying Of Attack
Michael Fanone asked the House GOP leader to publicly denounce statements by Republican members. He wasn’t satisfied with McCarthy’s response.
Republicans Are Criminalizing The Democratic Process For People Of Color
After an election loss and years of mass demonstrations, Republican states are rushing to create new crimes related to voting and protesting.
Help! I Offended My Indian Sister-in-Law by Bringing Groceries for Our First Visit.
I thought this was good manners but apparently not!
‘A tough slog’: White House struggles to increase vaccination rates as Delta variant surges
Only about 46 percent of the U.S. population is vaccinated, and the number of doses administered has fallen by almost 300,000 per day since June 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What the U.S. Loses When Americans Save Too Much
For two generations, economists and other custodians of financial propriety have chastised Americans for not saving enough. Getting the public to pay attention took a pandemic. Facing a real possibility that COVID-19 and the resulting economic havoc might leave them unable to pay their mortgages and feed their families, moderate- and middle-income Americans began saving as much as they could—and are now socking away now perhaps too much to support a healthy expansion for the U.S.
The Soft Radicalism of Erotic Fiction
Pleasure, in the novels of Jackie Collins, tends to be abundant but hard-earned—imagine Pandora, having opened the box containing every sin plaguing humanity, retiring to a beach house in Malibu with two Weimaraners and a finely muscled masseur. The titles of her later books nod to desire and its cost: Lethal Seduction, Deadly Embrace, Dangerous Kiss. And in life, the British-born author emanated a similar combination of tough glamour.
Summer Is Hot, but This Is Abnormal
Summer is hot. This is among the most basic weather concepts that we learn as children and accept without question. Heat and even heat waves have always been a reliable hallmark of the season between the June solstice and the September equinox. And yet recent weather has far outstripped that norm. For most of last week, the daily high temperature in Phoenix reached or exceeded 115 degrees, breaking records even in that desert city.
New York Daily News Flips An Old Rudy Giuliani Boast To Oprah Winfrey Back On Him
The former New York mayor is getting what he deserves, the tabloid’s editorial board declared in a scathing column about the suspension of his law license.
How to Make Peter Thiel Pay Taxes on His Shady $5 Billion Roth IRA
It’s probably legal, but it shouldn’t be.
My Mother Told My Sister She’d Make Her the Sole Heir to Her Millions
She’s played us against each other our entire lives.
We Already Know One Winner of the New York City Mayoral Race
Even if we’re still waiting for a new mayor.
States Have Cut Off Unemployment. So Why Aren’t More People Looking for Jobs?
Republicans yanked away federal help to nudge people back to work. So far, it doesn’t seem to be working.
College vaccine mandates rile GOP states
The red states’ moves potentially set up court fights over who has the power to police campus health just as schools prepare to reopen for in-person instruction.
The Supreme Court saved Obamacare. Now supporters want Biden to fix the law.
Pressure is building on Biden to address the law’s underlying problems now that it has survived the latest Supreme Court challenge.
FDA to add warning about rare heart inflammation to Moderna, Pfizer vaccine fact sheets
A CDC safety panel has determined there is a “likely association” between the Pfizer and Moderna shots and cases of myocarditis and pericarditis in vaccine recipients.
FDA approved Alzheimer’s drug over internal objections
FDA gave the drug conditional approval earlier this month, making it the first new Alzheimer’s therapy approved in nearly 20 years.
Is It Legal That Britney Spears Can’t Remove Her IUD? Can’t See Her Friends? An Expert Explains What She Should Do Next.
It was probably a good idea for her to speak out.
Sniffing Around for Quick, Cruisy “Connections” This Hot Vax Summer?
Sniffies—an upstart, very upfront gay hookup site—is here to help.
Help! My Wife Wants Me to Stay With Her in the Normie Line Even Though I Have PreCheck.
Is it rude for me to leave her behind?
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
Soaring prices draw both shrugs and screaming in Washington
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Biden’s back door to wage hikes
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
Bargain hunters pounce as Trump condo prices hit decade lows
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
‘Hard to love it’: Modest job gains leave lingering doubts about recovery
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
Sen. Merkley on Voting Rights, the Filibuster & Why Infrastructure Deal Must Address Climate Crisis
Pressure is growing on Democrats to abolish the Senate filibuster in order to pass a major voting rights bill and other legislation. Republicans this week used the filibuster to prevent debate on the For the People Act, which would restore the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act gutted by the Supreme Court eight years ago.
News Roundup: Republicans lie about infrastructure, extreme gerrymandering, Tucker’s new low
It is Friday! Before the last “bipartisan” Republican could say anything about the infrastructure deal they struck with President Joe Biden, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was bashing it.
Ohio Republican indicted for voter fraud after forging deceased father’s ballot to vote Trump
After Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, GOP officials just can’t stop talking about alleged election fraud. But the truth is, Republicans think voter fraud is rampant because they are the ones who are committing it. It’s like they say, those who are the most suspicious are the ones to be suspicious of.
The reality behind many of those who support the “stop the steal” initiative is coming to light.
Tucker Carlson hits rock bottom in racist commentary about critical race theory and U.S. military
On Thursday, the first segment of Tucker Carlson’s nightly white supremacist rage-fest was a doozy. Carlson—best known for his mediocrity, his thin skin, his rage, and most importantly his intellectual dishonesty—really let the U.S. military have it on … critical race theory.