The American economy ended 2024 on a solid note with consumer spending continuing to drive growth. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product — the economy’s output of goods and services — expanded at a 2.3% annual rate from October through December. For the full year, the economy grew a healthy 2.8%, compared
All 67 aboard a commercial plane and an Army helicopter are feared dead after a midair collision late Wednesday evening near Reagan Washington National Airport, the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster since November 2001. “At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors from this accident,” D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services chief John Donnelly
In the waning days of the Biden administration, Democratic leaders said then-president Joe Biden couldn’t do much to stem the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border without an act of Congress. Then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, for example, told CNN in February 2024 that “the folks who are getting in the way”
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, opened the hearing by offering prayers to those who died in the plane crash in the Potomac late Wednesday night. “This is a horrible, hard-to-understand disaster that demands answers,” he said. Turning to Patel’s nomination, Grassley highlighted his background and stressed that it positions him well to lead the FBI. “Mr.
Gabbard, a former Democrat who represented Hawaii in Congress from 2013 to 2021, is an unconventional pick to oversee the nation’s 18 spy agencies. She served in the Army National Guard for more than 20 years, but does not have a background in intelligence. The 43-year-old was born in American Samoa and grew up in
The world’s largest lithium battery plant erupted in a massive blaze on Jan. 16, smoldering and smoking near Monterey, Calif., for days. A sharp chemical smell swept through from Vistra Energy’s Moss Landing Power Plant to the surrounding foothills, up the coast toward Santa Cruz, and down into the Salinas Valley’s farming mecca. Nearly two
EXCLUSIVE: A previously identified anti-Trump FBI agent allegedly broke protocol and played a critical role in opening and advancing the bureau’s original investigation related to the 2020 election, tying President Trump to the probe without sufficient predication.