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Ridgewood NJ, Congress has averted a shutdown with just hours to spare, capping a dramatic day that started with a lapse in government funding appearing all but inevitable.
Voters Want Border Security in Budget Deal
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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Bribed Chinese Government Officials to Obtain Outdoor Advertising Contracts
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Washington DC, the Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. agreed to pay more than $26 million to resolve charges that it bribed Chinese government officials to obtain outdoor advertising contracts in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Cory Booker Says Menendez Should Resign , Calls Allegations “shocking” with “disturbing details of wrongdoing”
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Washington DC, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday morning said he wants his colleague, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), to resign. The statement from New Jersey’s junior senator represents a change on the federal scene, where Menendez’s fellow caucus members have been reluctant to cast a stone at the indicted New Jerseyan:
US Sovereign Debt Downgraded
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Washington DC, Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States’ long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to AA+ from AAA on Tuesday, pointing to “expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years,” an erosion of governance and a growing general debt burden.
Poll: Biden or Trump? We’re Doomed, Many Voters Say
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Ridgewood NJ, as the 2024 election shapes up as a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, a large percentage of voters think the country is doomed if their preferred candidate loses.
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House Oversight Committee to Hold Hearing on UFOs
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Washington DC , according to one recent public poll, a majority of those sampled believe the government may be covering up the truth about UFOs. Now the The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena, often called “UAPs” or “UFOs,”
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New Pew poll: Even Democrats Don’t Trust the Government
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Washington DC, a new Pew poll shows public trust in politicians is near an all-time low. Only one in four Americans “trust that the government will do what is right” most of the time. This trust meter is at or below the level of any time since the 1950s. Americans are less trusting of the political class today that at the height of Watergate when Tricky Dick occupied the White House.
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Hunter Biden to Plead Guilty to Federal Tax Crimes and Takes Deal on Gun Charge
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Washington DC, President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is set to plead guilty to tax crimes and reached a diversion agreement connected to the unlawful possession of a weapon – developments likely to put the president on defense going into the 2024 race.
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Looks Like We Have a Debt Deal
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Washington DC, looks like we have a debt deal. The compromise announced late Saturday includes a two-year budget deal that would essentially hold spending flat for 2024, while boosting it for defense and veterans, and capping increases at 1% for 2025. That’s alongside raising the debt limit for two years, pushing the volatile political issue past the next presidential election.
House Republicans Pass Fiscal Reform and Debt-ceiling
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Washington DC, The latest monthly report from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is filled with grim numbers.
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Big Brother is Watching: Voters Fears U.S. Government Almost as Much as Foreign Spies
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Ridgewood NJ, a majority of voters are worried that their government is spying on Americans – almost as much as they fear spying from foreigners.
Suspected US intelligence leaker arrested in Massachusetts
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Washington DC, Jack Teixeira, an airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested Thursday in Massachusetts connection with the leak of classified documents shared in a group he managed on a website popular with gamers, according to multiple outlets.
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Most Arizona Voters Believe ‘Irregularities’ Affected the Outcome of the Election
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Phoenix Az, the razor-thin outcome of last year’s Arizona gubernatorial election has made most voters in the state suspicious of the result.
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Derailed: 51% Want Transportation Secretary Buttigieg to Resign
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Washington DC,, in the wake of the Ohio train derailment disaster, a majority of voters believe Transportation Secretary Peter Buttigieg should resign.
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The Kidnapping in Mexico Near the US Border and Murder of Two Americans Has Once Again Put Focus on the Lack of Security on Southern Border
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Washington DC, the kidnapping in Mexico near the US border this week of four U.S. citizens that left two of them dead has renewed the focus on the lack of security on southern border. In a wake up call some lawmakers are once again pushing for the Biden administration to take border security more seriously and crack down on the cartels.
