Despite President Joe Biden’s deficit reduction efforts, the U.S. starts the new fiscal year with an astonishingly high debt. The country approaches the statutory debt ceiling — an artificial cap Congress has placed on the U.S. government’s ability to borrow — of roughly $31.4 trillion. According to a U.S. Treasury report that logs America’s daily finances, the country’s gross national debt has exceeded a record $31 trillion. Even though the Inflation Reduction Act has been signed recently by President Joe Biden in an attempt to tame huge price increases due to a wide variety of economic factors, many economists say…
Author: John Smith
An illegal immigrant who was deported three times is suspected of terrorizing women and girls along a popular Virginia walking trail for several months. In a series of at least 22 separate incidents since July, Juan Rodriguez Alfaro is suspected of assaulting and using violence against women and girls along the Washington and Old Dominion Trail (W&OD). He was also being sought in New York for an attack on a jogger who is the wife of a law enforcement officer, said WUSA9. WATCH the news video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1yDNJo-StM An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson told FOX 5 DC that Rodriguez…
While President Joe Biden commemorated the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, several sources revealed that the U.S. may negotiate a plea deal with the terrorists who crafted the attack. There’s a possibility that plea deals could be in the works for the mastermind and four other conspirators imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay charged for their roles in the attacks, per Fox News. The plea deals are reportedly being negotiated by military prosecutors and attorneys for the five defendants. It could take the death penalty off the table, as well as offer treatment for the alleged torture the defendants experienced…
A looming railroad strike was nearly a disaster for America, when President Joe Biden announced that days of negotiations at the US Department of Labor had resulted in a tentative deal. “This agreement is a big win for America and for both, in my view,” Biden said during his speech at the Rose Garden, adding that the tentative labor agreement is “validation of what I’ve always believed: Union and management can work together.” He added, “To the American people. This agreement can avert the significant damage that any shutdown would have brought. Our nation’s rail system is the backbone of…
Philadelphia has become so bad under Democrat leadership, that a 14-year-old boy shot and killed Tiffany Fletcher at Mill Creek Recreation Center and has been charged with murder. Tiffany Fletcher was a city employee and mother of three. 16th District officers were called to the 4700 block of Brown Street Friday afternoon at approximately 1:30 p.m. following a report of a shooting, officials say. The woman, who was identified by Mayor Kenney as Tiffany Fletcher, was found by officers unresponsive in the park at the recreation center sustaining two gunshot wounds. The authorities say that the victim was an employee…
Trump’s Truth Social is facing an obstacle. The app wasn’t approved by Google and is not available on the Google Play Store. According to Google, the Truth Social app does not have any effective means for moderating user-generated content. This is seen as a violation of the store’s terms of service. Truth Social was promoted by former President Donald Trump as a “free-speech” alternative to Twitter sometime after he was banned from the platform due to his tweets relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In an attempt to block Congress from confirming Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential…
With just a few days before classes begin, problems with heating and cooling in Ohio’s largest school system caused teachers across the state to continue their strike. The union says that poor conditioning is a contributing factor to the miserable classroom environment, because if the classrooms are overheated and humid, then pretty much everyone in them is miserable. As the Columbus Education Association and the Columbus City Schools Board of Education continued their standoff, union members hit the picket line for a second day. The negotiations are scheduled to resume on the afternoon of the first day of school after…
The United States petroleum reserves have hit their lowest levels in decades, since around 1985, sparking criticism and a response from President Joe Biden. The president reacted by releasing about one million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves daily as a response to the quickly rising gas prices in the United States and around the world. According to data from the Energy Information Administration, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve levels are at their lowest in the past four decades, with the autumn and winter weather approaching. With the winter season ahead, the U.S. might experience a “cold December and…
Chris Licht, CNN’s president and CEO, declared to concerned staffers that the network would undergo more changes as he discussed the departure of Brian Stelter in the wake of the cancellation of Reliable Sources, a show he hosted on Sundays. That did little to calm the anxiety of the far-left network’s highly partisan staff. Sources that attended the editorial meeting reported that Licht told CNN employees, “There will be moves you may not agree with or understand.” Some took that to mean they may not like some of the changes. Allegedly, Licht also said that he wanted to acknowledge to…
A widespread human trafficking investigation “Operation Cross Country” has resulted in the rescue of hundreds of adult and minor victims of human trafficking and child exploitation across the U.S. Since the start of the nationwide enforcement campaign in early August, authorities located 37 “actively missing children” and 141 adult victim of human trafficking, a recent report reveals. According to a statement made public by the Department of Justice during this week, the FBI and its state and local partners also identified and released 84 minors as a result of the campaign. The investigation team of Operation Cross Country XII includes…
According to several critics, a contract between the Minneapolis teachers’ union and the Minneapolis Public Schools violates both the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. According to recent reports, the contract states that white teachers will be terminated before teachers of color, regardless of seniority. Minnesota media outlet Alpha News reported that, under the agreement, teachers of color “may be exempt from district-wide layoffs outside of seniority order.” 60 percent of Minneapolis students are nonwhite, compared with 27 percent of its intern teachers, per a report by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Jonathan Butcher, a fellow…
The head of the Internal Revenue Service has declared that the agency that collects taxes will “definitely not” use $80 billion in new funds to ramp up the audits of low- and middle-income Americans. “The resources in the reconciliation package will get us back to historical norms in areas of challenge for the agency — large corporate and global high-net-worth taxpayers — as well as new areas like pass-through entities and multinational taxpayers with international tax issues, where we need sophisticated, specialized teams in place that are able to unpack complex structures and identify noncompliance,” IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig wrote…
Although Congress is preparing to approve the new tax credits for electric vehicles, with the rules are written the way they currently are, it would effectively disqualify each and every electric vehicle that’s available on the market at the moment. With the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 being passed by the Senate, to be eligible to receive the newly expanded tax break of $7,500, it would require that batteries have at least 40 percent of their materials sourced from North America or a US trading partner by the year of 2024. Battery components should be 100% made in North America…
Despite Democrats pushing clean energy and what appears to be support for electric vehicles, this one company has already cut production by about 50%, said reports. After delivering just 679 vehicles in the second quarter, Lucid Motors, which produces popular electric cars, cut its production goal for the year nearly in half. Just a year ago, Lucid wanted to take on Tesla, but now they’ve fallen into the pit of despair. WATCH the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcWqzAOPzFs It was originally planned for Lucid Motors to produce 20,000 luxury Air sedans in 2022. But now that goal has been scrapped. Though the company…
The FBI arrested four officers involved in the March 2020 police raid that killed Breonna Taylor. Three are facing charges of violating the civil rights of Taylor which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, if convicted. According to the federal indictment, there were lies behind the raid on Taylor’s Louisville apartment. A warrant issued for the no-knock police raid that resulted in Taylor’s death should never have been granted, and “Breonna Taylor should be alive today,” according to U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland. He and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke jointly made an announcement of the charges. Those include…
You’ve probably been thinking about hitching an Airstream to your electric truck and hitting the roads across the country. Before doing that, you have to understand this: a fully-charged 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck with the largest available battery will have a smaller energy on board than an F-150 with about four gallons of gasoline in its tank. The towing capacity of the Lightning varies from 5,000 to 10,000 pounds. Achieving the big number will require an XLT or Lariat model equipped with the extended-range battery option and the Max Towing Package, which boosts battery capacity and engine cooling.…
The New York bishop who was robbed at gunpoint during a live service last month was one time accused of swindling a congregant out of her savings, according to court documents. Bishop Lamor Whitehead, known for his designer clothes and luxury cars, raised a few eyebrows when police estimated the value of the jewelry stolen from him and his family at nearly $1 million. Whitehead has more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram, where he routinely goes live. WATCH the robbery happen live during sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSne7qxLDI The parishioner, Pauline Anderson, sued Whitehead in September 2021, claiming she gave him $90,000…
Gun-rights advocates have found another good guy with a gun. “I’m grateful a good guy with a gun was there to prevent further casualties and am praying for the families who lost loved ones in this senseless tragedy,” said Jim Banks, a Republican who is representative of Fort Wayne and the northeast parts of the state, in a tweet on July 17th. Lauding the man as a hero, Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison released the name of Dicken at a press conference on the afternoon of July 18th. The chief also announced more information about the victims and the suspected…
Citing safety concerns, Starbucks plans to close 16 locations in various cities. The stores are located in Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Portland (Oregon). They will be closed at the end of July. The decision comes amid Starbucks’ efforts to change the company’s culture under the leadership of interim CEO Howard Schultz, as employees nationwide vote to unionize. In a letter to employees on July 11th, Debbie Stroud and Denise Nelson, who are both senior vice presidents of U.S. operations, addressed the issue of safety at Starbucks stores. Employees are “seeing firsthand the challenges facing our communities —…
The CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, said CNN is renewing its focus on “journalism”. Zaslav points out that he wants the scandal-scarred left-wing network to finally provide forthright information that will also appeal to conservatives. The CEO, whose company includes CNN, Warner Bros., HBO, Animal Planet and TLC, has stated to reporters at Allen & Co.’s “summer camp for billionaires” in the city of Sun Valley, Idaho, that in the long run, CNN’s new approach will pay off, even as ratings fall to all-time low levels. Zaslav, who took over as CEO of Discovery and WarnerMedia after they…
More than five million barrels of oil that were among a historic release of U.S. emergency reserves to lower domestic fuel prices have been exported to Europe and Asia in the past month, according to figures and sources, despite the fact that U.S. gasoline and diesel prices have hit record highs. Why does the US import and export so much crude oil? WATCH THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyorIIPDvSQ The export of crude and fuel is softening the impact of U.S. President Joe Biden’s moves to lower record prices at the pump. On July 2nd, Biden renewed a call for gasoline suppliers to cut…
Police said that an off-duty correctional officer turned the tables on a carjacking on the night of June 27th, firing on the suspect in the Olney section of Philadelphia. The 59-year-old corrections officer was just leaving a friend’s house when he was the victim of a carjacking along the 200 block of East Roosevelt Boulevard around 11 p.m., police said. The man reported to police that he got into his Toyota Avalon, and before he realized it, a man who was wearing a surgical mask and a hoodie pulled him out of the car at gunpoint and went inside. That’s…
More than one half of all U.S. consumers lived paycheck to paycheck last month, says a new LendingClub report released this week. LendingClub, a peer-to-peer lending company, is reporting that 58% of U.S. consumers were basically living paycheck to paycheck last month, an increase of 4% over last year. With rates of inflation at a 40-year high, taxpayers are still struggling financially as the economy starts to slow, as reflected in the latest decline in retail sales last month. “Consumers have experienced a tough last couple of years as different factors have affected their financial lifestyle and there seems to…
A large number of baby boomers have zero retirement savings and 40% intend to depend solely on Social Security for their post-retirement income. This does not look good for people worried about retirement, but there’s a way to help save – even if it means retiring in a completely different city. Here are 12 of the cheapest states to retire in. Mississippi Average cost of living index: 85.1 Median home cost: $140,818 Medicare Advantage Monthly Cost $48.87 In Mississippi, any income from pensions, Social Security, 401(k)s, IRAs, 403(b)s, SEP-IRA’s, and 457(b)s are tax-exempt. Alabama Average cost of living index: 88.6…
Billionaire Ken Griffin is relocating to Miami and moving his company with him, quitting Chicago after more than three decades. In a recent memo, the head of Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel told staff he was relocating the company’s headquarters and its associated securities division to Miami. About 300 employees are slated to occupy the new Miami office in the financial district of that city within about a year, according to a company spokesman. The company will not lose its Chicago footprint completely as it intends to retain an office. The company has about 1,000 employees in Illinois. Citadel has 16…