Obama on what would lead him to speak out against Trump
During President Obama’s last press conference of his presidency, he discussed some of the things that would lead him to speak out against Trump.
During President Obama’s last press conference of his presidency, he discussed some of the things that would lead him to speak out against Trump.
ERIC was once a bipartisan tool helping states fight voter fraud. Now it's a lightning rod that is less useful for the states that remain.
Moms for Liberty candidates' win rate dropped in 2023. It's numbers don't match those of independent researchers.
The average Wall Street bonus fell slightly last year to $176,500 as the industry added employees and took a “more cautious approach” to compensation, New York state’s comptroller reported Tuesday. The average bonus for employees in New York City’s securities industry was down 2% from $180,000 in 2022. The slight dip came even as Wall Street profits were up 1.8% last year, according to the annual estimate from Thomas DiNapoli, the state's comptroller.
President Joe Biden travels to Nevada and Arizona on Tuesday to promote his affordable housing proposals and pitch his case for re-election in two political swing states that could prove critical to his bid to stay in the White House. The Democratic president has been making stops in a host of battleground states since his State of the Union address earlier this month that criticized his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, and laid out ideas he hopes to implement if given a second term. With worries about high rents and mortgage interest rates contributing to voters' sour views about the economy, Biden will tout his administration's latest proposals to make housing more affordable.
President Joe Biden is embarking on a three-day campaign swing aimed at shoring up his standing in the Sun Belt as part of an aggressive play to re-energize vital parts of his 2020 electoral coalition. Much of Biden’s time on this trip this week, which includes stops in Nevada, Arizona and Texas, will be geared toward courting the Latino voters who helped power his coalition in 2020 and to emphasizing his pro-union, pro-abortion rights message. Biden's first stop Tuesday is in Reno, Nevada, where he will meet with local officials and campaign volunteers in Washoe County before heading to Las Vegas to promote his administration’s housing policies.
U.S. officials stressed Tuesday that newly-approved legislation providing billions of dollars in funding for three strategically important Pacific island nations is an important sign of American commitment, which comes amid warnings China is actively trying to pry them away from Washington's sphere of influence. The renewal of funds for the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau — known collectively as the Freely Associated States — had been held up for months by broader infighting in Congress over budgetary issues, even though they enjoyed widespread bipartisan support. Leaders in the islands had warned that delays could have forced their governments to cut services, and swayed public opinion toward offers of investment from China.
The former officers pleaded guilty to more than a dozen federal charges related to the beating, sexual assaults of two Black men in Mississippi.
Ohio Republicans choose their nominee in key Senate race while California seeks to replace former speaker Kevin McCarthy
Navarro, convicted for refusing to cooperate with House January 6 committee, to report to Miami facility with zoo next door
After two years of rate hikes, Americans are coping with higher costs for all kinds of loans. Here's what to expect from the Fed this week.
The settlement with the Realtors' association ended guaranteed commissions but could impose new costs on buyers already struggling to break into the market.
Companies are getting bolder in their battles to beat back proposals requiring them to disclose more about everything from environmental policies to AI.
Both parties see the coming rise of fresher faces as a welcome development for Congress' stodgy upper chamber.
The races will also test Donald Trump's hold on the GOP, and the Democratic divide over the Israel-Hamas war.
British consumer goods giant Unilever announced Tuesday that it will separate its ice cream unit, whose top-selling products include Ben & Jerry's and Magnum, as a standalone business.It added: "After separating Ice Cream and implementing the productivity programme, Unilever will have a structurally higher margin."
Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions unanswered, underscoring the daunting task of decommissioning the plant. The 12 photos released by the plant's operator are the first from inside the main structural support called the pedestal in the hardest-hit No. 1 reactor’s primary containment vessel, an area directly under the reactor's core. Officials had long hoped to reach the area to examine the core and melted nuclear fuel which dripped there when the plant's cooling systems were damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the criminals behind it to dodge taxes. The International Labor Organization said the tally for 2021, the most recent year covered in the painstaking international study, marked an increase of 37%, or $64 billion, compared with its last estimate published a decade ago. Forced labor can encourage corruption, strengthen criminal networks and incentivize further exploitation, ILO said.
The yen weakened and Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday after the Bank of Japan hiked interest rates for the first time in 17 years as it shifted away from its long-running ultra-loose monetary policy.While the moves were a major change from a long-running policy, Japanese stocks rose as the BoJ's comment that conditions would remain accommodative tempered fears of more hikes.
Fed officials are expected this week to discuss a strategy for how to slow the shrinking of their massive balance sheet, another tool used to tighten financial conditions over the last two years.
Japan welcomed 2.79 million visitors in February, a record for the month and the most for any month since the COVID-19 pandemic began, boosted by travel during Lunar New Year holidays. The number of foreign visitors for business and leisure was up from 2.69 million in January, data from the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) showed on Tuesday. For all of 2019, Japan welcomed a record 31.9 million visitors before the pandemic struck.