Members of Congress have not seen a pay increase in 15 years. Members of the House Appropriations Committee voted on June 13 to extend a pay freeze for members of Congress as their constituents struggle with rising costs of living. The move came during the panel’s mark-up of the fiscal year 2025 appropriations bill for
Alameda County district attorney Pamela Price faces recall election Pamela Price (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Pamela Price, the Oakland area’s district attorney once backed by billionaire George Soros, allegedly called “the media and the Asians” her enemy and “fostered and encouraged a racist environment” in her office, according to a lawsuit from her former spokeswoman. She
‘The United States needs resilient, diverse, and secure supply chains,’ said President Biden. President Joe Biden directed the federal government to work on strengthening the U.S. supply chain on June 14 by signing an executive order, as he co-signed parallel joint commitments with the other leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) in the southern
The independent presidential candidate vowed to cut military spending by 50 percent and reallocate that money to domestic programs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken critic of U.S. involvement in “forever wars,” reiterated his view that the nation should scale back its military presence abroad and shift its focus to domestic programs, during an address
On one train, according to a video on social media, a man led a small group in chanting, ‘Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist.’ President Joe Biden has condemned recent acts of anti-Semitism in New York that have included anti-Israel activists targeting an exhibit in memory of those whom Hamas killed at a music
A high-ranking Hamas official and negotiator for the terrorist group said “no one has an idea” about how many of the over 250 hostages taken from Israel on October 7 are still alive. “I don’t have any idea about that,” the official, Osama Hamdan, told CNN during an interview in Beirut, Lebanon, when asked about
Six House members want to use the data to assess the ‘national security damage’ caused by the decades-old U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement. A group of Republican lawmakers has requested that the Commerce Department disclose government-funded research that led to Chinese patents, aiming to highlight the risks they perceive in renewing a bilateral science and