President Joe Biden is expected to “permanently” block new offshore oil and gas development in some U.S. coastal waters, a last-ditch effort to cement his climate legacy in his final weeks in the White House, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The executive order would prohibit the sale of new drilling rights in sections of America’s outer continental
Online encyclopedia has published ‘wildly inaccurate’ information about Jewish state (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images) Wikipedia editors quietly deleted an entry claiming that Hamas has won nearly every battle against Israel since Oct. 7, setting off a fiery debate about the online database’s bias and inability to accurately portray the war. In its article listing
Morgan Stanley became the latest U.S. bank to suspend its commitment to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a U.N. progressive climate program aimed at curbing all greenhouse gas emissions—including CO2—by 2050. The bank in its Thursday announcement did not specify why it left the alliance, but Republican state attorneys general have increased pressure on top American
Earlier this year, officials from across the Biden-Harris administration reviewed intelligence detailing Iraq’s central role in a billion-dollar Iranian oil smuggling scheme. But they largely ignored that intelligence, according to those briefed on the matter, giving Tehran what one former U.S. official described as a “free pass” to evade American sanctions and rake in illicit
‘He was acting in the public interest,’ left-wing watchdog group says (Getty Images) President Joe Biden is facing pressure to commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the former IRS consultant who leaked the tax returns of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and other wealthy individuals. Left-wing groups Revolving Door Project and Patriotic
Patagonia shares address and personnel with mysterious company that donated $2.2 million to Democratic super PACs (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Within days of its founding in early August, a mysterious company called Save Our Home Planet Action, Inc. managed to get ahold of nearly $2.2 million—funds that it promptly handed over to a collection of
Editor’s note: The announcement that Jimmy Carter had entered hospice care—in early 2023, nearly two years ago!—stimulated the chattering class into another of its orgies of jibber-jabber, as Andrew Ferguson noted at the time (below). Now that Carter has finally signed out of hospice care for good, the blather will only increase in quantity. But