Category: Economy

Rap­per For­gia­to Blow post­ed a new rap song, “Black MAGA,” on his YouTube chan­nel, “May­or of Magville,” this week. The song is per­formed by the artist Black Don­ald Trump. The music video fea­tures var­i­ous “Blacks for Trump” signs on vehi­cles and T‑shirts. [embed­ded con­tent] “Don­ald Trump. Yeah, that’s my pres­i­dent,” the rap­per sings in the […]

As anti-Israel protests heat up across Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and oth­er elite col­lege cam­pus­es, a new Har­vard poll reveals only 2% of peo­ple ages 18–29 con­sid­er the Israel-Hamas con­flict as the most con­cern­ing issue. When com­par­ing the Israel-Hamas con­flict to oth­er issues, 61% of the time respon­dents said it was a less impor­tant issue.  The most […]

The three major Amer­i­can broad­cast net­works (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were out in force Wednes­day morn­ing as all three of them took to prais­ing the pro-Hamas extrem­ists tak­ing over col­lege cam­pus­es across the coun­try. Ignor­ing the rag­ing anti­semitism that was on full dis­play and cap­tured on videos cir­cu­lat­ing on social media, they praised the “sol­idary […]

After the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion vot­ed to block new non­com­pete agree­ments for 30 mil­lion work­ers on Tues­day, busi­ness groups and the Unit­ed States Cham­ber of Com­merce have tak­en action. A law­suit was filed Wednes­day by the Cham­ber of Com­merce, Busi­ness Round­table, Texas Asso­ci­a­tion of Busi­ness, and the Longview Cham­ber of Com­merce seek­ing to block the […]

For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has thwart­ed Pres­i­dent Joe Biden‘s momen­tum in six key swing states as con­cerns about the econ­o­my per­sist. In a Bloomberg-Morn­ing Con­sult poll released Wednes­day, Trump holds leads over Biden in six of sev­en swing states. Trump’s leads in Ari­zona, Neva­da, North Car­oli­na, Penn­syl­va­nia, and Wis­con­sin are larg­er than in last month’s […]

The White House‘s attempt to strike a bal­ance in its response to pro-Pales­t­in­ian protests on var­i­ous col­lege cam­pus­es has some Democ­rats con­cerned about the elec­tion in Novem­ber. Protests on sev­er­al col­lege cam­pus­es, includ­ing Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, have caused secu­ri­ty and safe­ty con­cerns for Jew­ish stu­dents. The demon­stra­tors at Colum­bia have cre­at­ed an encamp­ment and have alleged­ly […]

(The Cen­ter Square) – The Texas Supreme Court on Tues­day issued an admin­is­tra­tive stay to tem­porar­i­ly block Har­ris County’s “Uplift Har­ris” guar­an­teed income pilot pro­gram from going into effect, grant­i­ng a request filed ear­li­er in the day by Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton. This is after two low­er courts, the 165th Dis­trict Court and the 14th […]

(The Cen­ter Square) – Okla­homa Attor­ney Gen­er­al Gen­tner Drum­mond called for the res­ig­na­tion of Tourism, Wildlife and Her­itage Sec­re­tary Shel­ley Zumwalt after an audit showed she approved a mul­ti-mil­lion con­tract for a com­pa­ny where her hus­band worked while work­ing for anoth­er state agency. The report released by State Audi­tor Cindy Byrd Tues­day after­noon shows that a con­tract was made between […]

Penn­syl­va­nia is the ulti­mate bat­tle­ground for 2024 with the White House, Sen­ate, and House all poised to flip based on how vot­ers here cast their bal­lots. In this series, Pin­ing for Penn­syl­va­nia: Unlock­ing the cru­cial Key­stone State, the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er will look at the demo­graph­ics, pol­i­tics, and key top­ics that have made Penn­syl­va­nia the must-watch state of the year. […]

As for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump‘s New York hush mon­ey tri­al starts in earnest, he and Pres­i­dent Joe Biden are grap­pling over how to deal with an enthu­si­asm gap, par­tic­u­lar­ly among inde­pen­dent vot­ers, for their 2024 runs before Novem­ber. While Trump’s tri­als are like­ly to polit­i­cal­ly advan­tage him and Biden with their respec­tive bases of sup­port, […]