U.S. News

Posted on:Sunday, November 3, 2019
The black unemployment rate hit an all-time low for the month of October, making it three straight record months of record unemployment among black Americans.
Posted on:Sunday, November 3, 2019
The federal government’s outstanding public debt has surpassed $23 trillion for the first time in history, according to data from the Treasury Department released on Friday.

Posted on:Sunday, November 3, 2019
An atheist group says plans to put an “In God We Trust” decal on the back of new police cars in Brevard County, Florida is an “inappropriate” injection of religion into public life.
Posted on:Friday, November 1, 2019
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted on Thursday to continue its impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
Posted on:Friday, November 1, 2019
The Kentucky Supreme Court handed a victory Thursday to Lexington promotional print shop owner Blaine Adamson.
Posted on:Friday, November 1, 2019
Cases of burnout have been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years among millennials and Gen Zers. It’s a growing problem in today’s workplace because of trends like rising workloads, limited staff and resources and long hours.

Posted on:Thursday, October 31, 2019
The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.9% for the third quarter of 2019 as businesses slowed their investments and consumer spending declined amid a slowdown in global growth and the trade war with China.
Posted on:Thursday, October 31, 2019
The last abortion clinic in Missouri could close because its license has yet to be renewed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), which is concerned about ‘deficiencies’ at the facility and ‘troubling instances and deviations from the standard care,’ which has resulted in “serious patient harm,” said the department.

Posted on:Thursday, October 31, 2019
Engineers at Pennsylvania State University have developed a new lithium ion battery that can charge an electric vehicle in 10 minutes. The technology could offer electric cars an additional 200 miles of driving range, alleviating concerns of becoming stranded on long trips.
Posted on:Thursday, October 31, 2019
A largely symbolic attempt to kill a Trump administration policy allowing states to skirt Obamacare mandates fell well short in the Senate on Wednesday, even after Sen. Susan Collins crossed party lines to support the measure.

Posted on:Thursday, October 31, 2019
The Federal Reserve cut rates by a quarter-point Wednesday in a widely expected move aimed at staving off a slowing economy and fears of a recession.
Posted on:Thursday, October 31, 2019
The Pentagon on Wednesday released its first images from last weekend’s commando raid in Syria that led to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and warned the militant group may attempt to stage a ‘retribution attack.’

Posted on:Thursday, October 31, 2019
A new report from RealClearInvestigations reveals that the anti-Trump ‘whistleblower’ who prompted the current impeachment proceedings against President Trump is a registered Democrat who worked with a Democratic National Committee opposition researcher who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Posted on:Wednesday, October 30, 2019
House Democrats’ strategy will exclude some of President Trump’s staunchest defenders from public impeachment hearings that the world will be watching.

Posted on:Wednesday, October 30, 2019
House Democrats have released the text of the impeachment resolution they plan to vote on, but when that vote will take place is still unclear.

Posted on:Wednesday, October 30, 2019
A federal judge has blocked an Alabama abortion law that would have almost completely outlawed abortion.

Posted on:Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Democrats in Congress, answering Republican complaints that their impeachment investigation of U.S. President Donald Trump is being conducted in secret, plan a vote on Thursday on how to make their inquiry public, a significant new stage in the probe.
Posted on:Tuesday, October 29, 2019
The Senate on Monday rejected an effort by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to place an across-the-board spending cut in a domestic funding package being debated by lawmakers.

Posted on:Tuesday, October 29, 2019
The amount of money the federal government collected in individual income taxes and the total amount of money the federal government spent both set records in fiscal 2019, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Friday afternoon.
Posted on:Tuesday, October 29, 2019
A North Carolina court on Monday temporarily blocked the state from using its congressional map in next year’s elections and strongly suggested it would eventually rule the districts were illegally gerrymandered to favor Republicans.
