When public hospitals purchase medical equipment or rely on outside doctors, they typically consider the price and quality of each vendor. In Tarrant County, Texas, they consider something else, too: the race and gender of the vendor’s owners. Tarrant County’s public hospital system, JPS Health, evaluates bids for contracts on a 100-point scale that gives
Golden State governor’s Lake Tahoe cafe advertises job openings at $16 an hour (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California’s fast food franchisees must hike their minimum wage to $20 an hour under a law Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) hailed as “extraordinarily beneficial.” His own luxury restaurants, meanwhile, are paying their workers less. Active job listings for Newsom’s
Former ESPN host Sage Steele this week said an interview she conducted with President Joe Biden in 2021 was “scripted,” with questions likely sent to the White House beforehand. “That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured,” Steele told Fox News this week. “And I was told, ‘You will
The Biden administration on Tuesday again canceled plans to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after selling off nearly half of the U.S. oil reserve in 2022. The Department of Energy said that in “keeping the taxpayer’s interest at the forefront” it would not go through with a planned purchase of roughly three million barrels of
The federal government awarded a Chicago health clinic nearly half a million dollars for a “healing circle diabetes program” that will treat the disease “through practice of communal songs, prayer, music, and dance,” grant records show. The Department of Health and Human Services allocated more than $422,000 in federal funds for the American Indian Health
Senator Jacky Rosen says she wants to stop congressional staffers from becoming lobbyists, and vice versa. But her office is teeming with former lobbyists, and many of her former staffers have gone on to become lobbyists. As part of her “efforts to clean up Washington,” the Nevada Democrat in March signed on to the Close
A Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday shows Republican nominee Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden in 6 of the 7 anticipated swing states in the 2024 presidential election. If an election including independent and third-party candidates were held today, Biden would win Wisconsin by 3 percentage points but lose to Trump in North