Category: Economy

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden is under­scor­ing his cli­mate record on Earth Day as younger, more lib­er­al Democ­rats sour on him amid the Israel–Hamas war. But although Biden’s pub­lic events con­tin­ue to be inter­rupt­ed by some cli­mate activists, includ­ing his New York fundrais­er with for­mer Pres­i­dents Barack Oba­ma and Bill Clin­ton, what was once a top pri­or­i­ty […]

To Sen. Tam­my Bald­win (D‑WI), who is run­ning for reelec­tion in the swing state of Wis­con­sin in 2024, the “revolv­ing door” between gov­ern­ment and K Street is “spin­ning out of con­trol as bil­lion­aires and spe­cial inter­ests rig the sys­tem.” Bald­win, the Bad­ger State’s junior sen­a­tor since 2013, says the con­stant flow of tax­­pay­er-backed staffers to […]

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden com­mem­o­rat­ed Earth Day 2024 by reit­er­at­ing his pledge to fight cli­mate change and pro­mote new green ener­gy tech­nolo­gies. The pres­i­dent was joined on Mon­day by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I‑VT), Sen. Ed Markey (D‑MA), and Rep. Alexan­dria Oca­­sio-Cortez (D‑NY), all three pro­gres­sives and some of the loud­est voic­es in Con­gress focus­ing on green […]

A judge accept­ed Don­ald Trump‘s $175 mil­lion bond in his civ­il fraud case after the for­mer pres­i­dent and Attor­ney Gen­er­al Leti­tia James reached an agree­ment to mod­i­fy the con­di­tions of the bond dur­ing a hear­ing in New York on Mon­day. Judge Arthur Engoron said that so long as Trump gave Knight Spe­cial­ty Insur­ance, a small […]

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris announced on Mon­day that the Biden admin­is­tra­tion has final­ized the first-ever min­i­mum staffing require­ments for nurs­ing homes.  The move comes after the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, which saw advo­cates for the elder­ly report­ing poor liv­ing con­di­tions for res­i­dents in which they’d go hours with­out meals and water and were not kept prop­er­ly clean. […]

[embed­ded con­tent] Pres­i­dent Joe Biden will speak to the nation from Tri­an­gle, Vir­ginia, to com­mem­o­rate Earth Day at 2:15 p.m.  Biden is expect­ed to announce $7 bil­lion in grant fund­ing for solar pow­er under the Infla­tion Reduc­tion Act and new steps toward high­light­ing his administration’s Cli­mate Corps — a pro­gram pop­u­lar with youth cli­mate groups. […]

In Cal­i­for­nia, there are 47 gigawatts of solar pow­er installed atop rooftops, equal­ing out to over a quar­ter of the state’s ener­gy. How­ev­er, dur­ing the mid­dle of sun­ny spring days, the ener­gy pro­duced exceeds demand, mean­ing prices for elec­tric­i­ty will go neg­a­tive, and solar pow­er is thrown away.  Solar ener­gy waste is most preva­lent in […]

For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump spoke ahead of his hush mon­ey tri­al in New York on Mon­day, but his remarks cen­tered on a sep­a­rate hear­ing tak­ing place that morn­ing, dur­ing which a judge will exam­ine state Attor­ney Gen­er­al Leti­tia James’s argu­ment that the court should reject a bond Trump paid. Trump tore into James, an elect­ed […]