The Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to cut emissions from power plants and factories to reduce pollution that blows into neighboring states seems likely to be halted by the Supreme Court, a blow to an ambitious federal initiative that environmentalists have said is necessary to protect people, especially children and the elderly, from lung-damaging smog. During […]Read More
Don Bolduc is a patrolman on the police force of Pittsfield, N.H., population 4,100. But this is not the job he had hoped to be doing in February 2024. In September 2022, he won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, earning the right to face off against Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in […]Read More
President Biden’s younger brother James, in a lengthy opening statement at the start of a deposition for the House Republican-led impeachment inquiry, said Joe Biden had no role in any of his business dealings that are now under scrutiny. “I have had a 50-year career in a variety of business ventures,” he said, according to […]Read More
Faced with a surge of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018 and 2019, Donald Trump’s White House discussed ways to more aggressively deploy the resources and the might of the U.S. military. Aides and officials spoke privately about detaining migrants on military bases and flying them out of the country on military planes […]Read More
When we learned last week that the Justice Department had indicted the informant behind the severest claims against President Biden for allegedly lying about those claims, the House GOP impeachment leader, Rep. James Comer (Ky.), downplayed the news. “To be clear, the impeachment inquiry is not reliant on the FBI’s” document that included Alexander Smirnov’s […]Read More
After a divisive investigation into the “Twitter Files” that Republicans decried as “harassment,” the Federal Trade Commission has found no evidence that the social network violated the terms of a government order that placed sweeping restrictions on the company’s data security practices. Since December 2022, the federal watchdog has been probing allegations that chief executive […]Read More
A central tenet of Sean Hannity’s on-air rhetoric over the past few years has been that the federal government — and, specifically, federal law enforcement — is not reliable. After all, how else to wave away the various indictments of his friend and ally former president Donald Trump? The Fox News host is not in […]Read More
Federal financial regulators are exploring allegations by two whistleblowers that Cash App, the popular mobile payment platform, and entities providing transaction services to its users performed inadequate due diligence on customers, potentially opening the door to money laundering, terrorism financing and other illegal activities. While banks are required to know the true identity of every customer, […]Read More
The firm formerly known as Toshiba is recalling 15.5 million AC laptop adapters due to the potential for burn and fire risks. The firm, now called Dynabook, said it had received 679 reports of the affected adapters overheating, catching fire, melting, or burning over a period stretching back more than a decade. This includes 43 […]Read More
JPMorgan Chase was sued by customers who accused the largest U.S. bank of having unfairly charged fees when they deposited checks that, through no fault of their own, bounced. In a proposed class action filed on Tuesday night, five customers said New York-based Chase docked $12 “deposited item returned fees” from their accounts when checks they […]Read More
