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Washington DC , the August jobs report was disappointing and for no group more than blacks. The African Americans unemployment rate ROSE in August from 8.6% to 8.8% even though there are 10 million open jobs.
Continue reading Bidenomics Leads to Higher Unemployment for African Americans
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Kabul, Afghanistan, Twelve Americans were killed on Thursday in two suicide bombings around the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where U.S. forces have been working to evacuate thousands of U.S. and Afghan civilians.
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Ridgewood NJ, a majority of voters don’t trust either President Joe Biden’s administration or the news media to tell the truth about the situation in Afghanistan, and most think it’s worse than they’re being told.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 34% of Likely U.S. Voters trust what Biden administration officials are saying about the current situation in Afghanistan. Fifty-four percent (54%) don’t trust what administration officials are saying, while 11% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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Afghanistan, across the United States and around the world, we have watched the events in Afghanistan unfold as Americans and Afghans who assisted the United States seek to leave the country.
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WASHINGTON DC, according to Reuters, the FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.
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Washington DC, NJ Congressman Van Drew issued the following statement on the current situation in Afghanistan, “President Biden’s decision to simply hand Afghanistan back to the Taliban after almost twenty years to the day since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, will go down as one of the most shocking and embarrassing failures of leadership in American history,” said Congressman Van Drew. “It is a slap in the face to not only our NATO allies and the Afghan people who stood shoulder to shoulder with us in the fight for Freedom, but to the thousands of Americans and coalition forces who sacrificed their lives and limbs to defeat the Taliban and liberate Afghanistan in the first place. Whether it is China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran – friend and foe alike are taking notice of the Biden Administration’s weakness and will only be emboldened in the days, weeks, and months to come.”
Continue reading Congress poised to Grill Biden officials Over Afghanistan Implosion
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Washington DC, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched a formal investigation of the Tesla Autopilot electronic driver aid’s apparent difficulty identifying parked emergency vehicles and first responder scenes.
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Washington DC, the coronavirus officially returned to the United States Senate on Monday. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tested positive quickly jolted through the Capitol and sparked an hours-long scramble to figure out who else might have been exposed, which only escalated after sources confirmed that the South Carolina Republican attended an outdoor event on Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) houseboat over the weekend with other senators.
Graham’s “breakthrough” case, the first known instance among senators, comes as the chamber has largely loosened social distancing restrictions in recent months, with at least 96 of the 100 senators vaccinated.
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Washington DC, nothing that Congress has done in the past three months has improved their standing with voters, most of whom continue to rate congressional job performance as poor.
Continue reading Voters Rate Congressional Job Performance as Poor
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Ridgewood NJ, Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending July 22, 2021.
This week’s finding is down two points from a week ago.
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Washington DC, the Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in its annual defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft.
Continue reading Senate Panel Votes to Require Women Register for Draft
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Washington DC, Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today blasted the Department of Justice’s refusal to investigate deadly mandates in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan sending COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes and long-term care facilities, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of thousands of seniors.
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Washington DC, it’s well known that the people who really know what’s going on in Congress are often the staff, not the members. That’s why Punch Bowl News’ fresh poll of senior Capitol Hill aides is intriguing.
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Washington DC, Ireland says no to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s dream of a global minimum corporate tax .
Continue reading Trouble Brewing for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
