The average nationwide summer monthly bill is expected to hit $186, up 3.7 percent from last summer. Retail electricity prices, which have risen faster than the inflation rate since 2022, are expected to continue increasing this year and next, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a May 14 statement. Residential electricity prices are forecast
The Trump administration has imposed, paused, or floated tariffs on various countries and products. Keep track of them here. President Trump holds a signed executive order on reciprocal tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images By Epoch Times Staff | May 18, 2025Updated:May 18,
Critical equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey have caused air traffic controllers to lose contact with planes in three separate incidents over the past several weeks, causing hundreds of flight delays and cancellations and leaving passengers on edge. Issues leading to the communication blackouts include prolonged staffing shortages, aging technology and
Critical equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey have caused air traffic controllers to lose contact with planes in three separate incidents over the past several weeks, causing hundreds of flight delays and cancellations and leaving passengers on edge. Issues leading to the communication blackouts include prolonged staffing shortages, aging technology and
Entrepreneur Heather Hill is the only remaining competitor for Ramaswamy in Ohio’s Republican Primary Next May. A week after the Ohio Republican Party voted to endorse President Donald Trump-backed Vivek Ramaswamy, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost suspended his gubernatorial campaign on May 16. In an email to supporters, the 68-year-old Yost said he will “continue
Gun rights advocates have challenged a 2022 ATF rule that cast some rapid-fire trigger devices as machine-gun parts. The Department of Justice has agreed to settle a lawsuit challenging its classification of some rapid-fire trigger devices, known as forced-reset triggers, as machine gun parts. On May 16, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the department had
If birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants is eliminated, as President Donald Trump has ordered, the illegal immigrant population in the United States would grow significantly, a new report has found. Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order states that although the 14th Amendment recognizes the citizenship of people born in the United States, it