Decades after the last plume of lead-laced smoke rose from a smelting plant in Omaha, Nebraska, the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica found lead in concentrations that pose a threat to people’s health in soil throughout east Omaha. Our investigation began more than two years ago, when Leah Keinama, who previously worked for a food…
Kevin M. Warsh reiterated his commitment to bringing down inflation at his first congressional hearing since becoming chairman of the Federal Reserve. However, he has yet to indicate whether he supports higher interest rates to achieve that goal. Mr. Warsh told lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the central bank would…
Quick look at the Clacton byelection field as it stands: Nigel Farage, Count Binface, Piers Corbyn, Laurence Fox, some bloke who’s been on Married at First Sight and Dating Naked … anyway, there’s more, but you get the picture. It’s going to be a long hot summer. By the end of this contest Clacton will…
United States President Donald Trump has appointed businessman and federal housing regulator Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence (DNI). Trump made Tuesday’s surprise announcement on social media that Pulte would replace Tulsi Gabbard, the former Hawaii congresswoman who has served as the director of national intelligence until recently. Trump said Pulte will keep…
For many chief executives, success in adopting artificial intelligence is measured by the number of jobs they can eliminate. In just the past few weeks, companies have announced tens of thousands of layoffs they attributed to A.I., a wave that one global bank boss undiplomatically described as replacing “lower-value human capital” with technology. But such…
“Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield,” President Lyndon Johnson declared as he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965. “This act flows from a clear and simple wrong,” he continued. “Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because…
President Trump sent letters to Congress on Friday making the case that a Vietnam-era law requiring him to seek congressional authorization to continue military operations in Iran did not apply because the conflict was in a cease-fire. In the letters — sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa,…
(RNS) — Eve Rogers, a 12-year-old homeschooled girl from Enfield, Connecticut, was found dead in her bedroom last month. On April 3, her stepfather was arrested and charged with first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor in connection with her death. Eve’s death comes as Connecticut lawmakers consider a homeschool bill that…
Cole Tomas Allen, who was arrested during an attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, may be America’s first normie liberal terrorist. The right, naturally, sees Allen as part of a pattern, lumping him in with figures like Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired on Donald Trump in 2024, grazing his ear;…
The Justice Department said Friday that it would move forward on a proposed $68 million settlement with a Texas land developer it had accused of preying on Hispanic residents, despite a judge’s concerns that the agreement did not do enough to help victims. During a hearing, U.S. District Judge Alfred H. Bennett questioned why the…
