Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations,The battery recycler Ascend Elements was riding high in 2023, flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.The seed money provided to the Massachusetts company, which launched in 2017, was one of several large bets the Biden administration placed on the green future as it essentially created a […]
Top Senate Democrats slammed President Trump on Friday over the more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency-related income he reported last year, calling for investigations into the national security ramifications of the president’s digital asset holdings. The administration released Trump’s financial disclosures last week, showing he made about $594 million from World Liberty Financial, the crypto… […]
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Thursday blasted President Trump’s decision to fire members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, accusing the president of making a “brazen attempt to seize control of our elections.” “Donald Trump said Republicans should ‘take over the voting.’ Today, he took another step toward doing exactly that,” Schumer said… […]
Subscribe to the ad-free edition Contribute Sign up for the email list You’ve probably never heard of the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC), but President Trump just gave you a really good reason to learn who they are. He actually just got rid of them all. President Trump removed every remaining commissioner from the four-member […]
US equity futures are flat on the final trading session of the week, with Tech lagging, as traders hold off on big bets ahead of the weekend, with the fragile truce in the Middle East keeping geopolitical risk front of mind. Overnight, the US said Iran talks will continue, a positive step amid the recent escalation near […]
The Men Who Own The Ukraine War Now Run It Authored by Thomas S. Karat via AntiWar.com There was a time when the arms dealer waited in the corridor. He financed the campaign, endowed the think tank, took the general to dinner, and hoped the man inside the office would remember him when the contract […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has responded to ongoing Israeli and Greek objections to the possible US sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey by mocking the Turkish enemies and rivals.Opposition to the potential stealth fighter transfer raised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis “has no place in my world,” Erdogan said in […]
On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said that she thinks the Iran war needs to end and we have to go back to negotiations, and “a follow-up to the Iranian strikes against our allies and against shipping in the Strait is an important response from the United States, and, hopefully, […]
If you want a sign of how the left-wing, permanent protest-industrial complex is gearing up for the next wave of street mobilization, look no further than Chad Marlow, a senior policy counsel at the ACLU.Marlow, whose work focuses on privacy, surveillance, and technology, has circulated guidance for protesters on social media about how to limit […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host foreign nations next week in a summit to discuss counterterrorism efforts. Leaders from over 60 nations are invited to the meeting, which will discuss efforts to counter antifa, a decentralized political movement that the Trump administration has designated as a domestic terrorist organization. Antifa is loosely defined and […]
