President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday backed off from a proposed standard that would have effectively banned the sale of half of all gas stoves on the market. The Department of Energy issued new standards that 97 percent of gas stoves and 77 percent of electric stoves on the market already meet, it said in
The Iraqi government is choking off the exportation of more than 400,000 barrels of oil per day in the country’s Kurdistan territory, prompting a regional trade association to petition Congress for help pressuring Baghdad to reverse course. The Association of the Petroleum Industry of Kurdistan warned in a letter sent Monday to the House and
Sen. Bob Casey, perhaps more than any other senator, faces a dilemma over Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi. The Pennsylvania Democrat could vote to confirm Mangi, who has come under fire for his work with anti-Israel and anti-police organizations. Or Casey could buck his party by voting against President Joe Biden’s “historic” nominee to the
Democratic politicians think they’re cool because they get to hang out with liberal celebrities at parties or on private jet excursions organized by international sex traffickers. As a result, many of these Democrats delude themselves into thinking they can do things that other cool people do all the time, such as dance in public. The
The San Francisco store that inspired the movie Toy Story will close next month, with the owner citing crime as one reason for its demise. An attorney representing the Luhn family, which owns Jeffrey’s Toys—told SFGATE that “the perils and violence of the downtown environment, inflation, the decrease in consumer spending, and the demise of retail across
A former contractor for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service was sentenced by a judge on Monday to five years in prison on Monday for leaking the tax records of former president Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans to media organizations. Charles Littlejohn, 38, in October had pleaded guilty to a charge of disclosing
Roughly 10 percent of staffers with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the international body’s aid group for Palestinian refugees, have ties to terrorist groups, according to a Monday Wall Street Journal report. About 1,200 employees, 10 percent of the agency’s 12,000 Gazan workers, are linked to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the