Breitbart News The Federal Reserve appears to expect economic growth to come crashing to an abrupt halt later this year. The market suggests that is still too optimistic. The Summary of Economic Projections released by the Federal Open Market Committee showed the median expectation for growth this year is just 0.4 percent, down a tenth of a point from…
by Kaitlin Housler | Tennessee Star Tennessee U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03) joined a bipartisan group of his colleagues in introducing the National Nuclear Commitment Act. The text of the one-page resolution reads, “That it is the sense of Congress that in order to achieve geopolitical energy leadership, reduce carbon emissions, and secure American energy independence, Congress…
By LOU KESTEN, BASSEM MROUE AND JON GAMBRELL BEIRUT (AP) — A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said. American forces said they retaliated soon after with “precision airstrikes” in Syria targeting facilities used by groups affiliated…
BY LOUISE CHAMBERS A Texas teen who restored a 1954 John Deere tractor to its former glory has collected three titles at a prestigious stock show and rodeo, alongside a cash prize of $10,000 which will go toward his college fund. Above and beyond the titles, the teen said that restoring the tractor was a labor…
by David Kelly The House Freedom Caucus hit the bullseye by targeting President Biden’s woke policy-driven proposed budget while offering their votes to raise the debt ceiling contingent to enacting commonsense legislation. The White House responded by issuing a “FIVE-ALARM FIRE” statement on Thursday that could only be seen as a precursor to a budget battle standoff that could push…
by R. Cort Kirkwood An American judge famously said a grand jury would “indict a ham sandwich, if that’s what you wanted,” but it appears that the grand jury in Manhattan won’t indict former POTUS 45 Donald J. Trump. For the second day, the grand jury did not meet, apparently because hate-Trump Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg believes it…
The Federal Reserve hiked its target federal-funds interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, the ninth in a series of hikes that started in March 2022. The hike brings the Fed’s target rate to a range between 4.75% and 5% with the Fed maintaining its pace of slowed increases. Most economists expected…
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church The United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a traveling evangelist who was barred from preaching at the University of Alabama for failing to obtain a permit. In an order released Monday, the Supreme Court declined without comment to hear arguments in the case of Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell et al.,…
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A coalition of conservative groups led by Americans for Tax Reform are calling on lawmakers to block the creation of a government-run tax preparation service or a “direct file” tax return system, a largely overlooked reform included last year in President Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act. The program is the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who…
The Tennessee Senate Judiciary, under the oversight of Chairman Todd Gardenhire, took up Senate Bill 1503 on March 21, 2023. The Senate Judiciary’s hearing on this bill evidences a cavernous void of constitutional stewardship by at least four Senate Republicans and two Senate Democrats on the committee. The Senate Judiciary is appointed entirely by Lt. Gov. Randy…
Biden announced the proclamations during a conservation summit held at the Interior Department, blocking a total of about 514,000 acres of public lands from development. Avi Kwa Ame is part of the creation story of many tribes and is sacred to many Indigenous groups, while Castner Range, on Fort Bliss in El Paso, was a testing…
By Piers Morgan | The New York Post Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has finally taken the gloves off and launched a blistering attack on his former mentor, former President Donald Trump. In an exclusive wide-ranging interview with me airing on Fox Nation’s “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on Thursday, he said “stay tuned” about his widely expected announcement that he’s running…
1440 News More than 30,000 Los Angeles school employees and teachers began a three-day strike yesterday, forcing nearly half a million students to stay home in the nation’s second-largest school district. At the center of the negotiations between Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union and the Los Angeles Unified School District is pay. Union officials…
By Elizabeth Dowell | Epoch Times High school football coach Joe Kennedy has reached a $1.8 million settlement with the Washington school district that placed him on administrative leave in 2015 for praying on the field. The Bremerton School District Board of Directors voted unanimously on March 16 in favor of the settlement to cover Kennedy’s legal…
By Efthymis Oraiopoulos | Epoch Times A former U.S. Marine Corps pilot was arrested in Australia after having been “lured” there by Australia’s security agency, his lawyer said on Monday, after an extradition hearing in court in Sydney. Daniel Duggan, 54, is facing extradition to the United States for allegedly training Chinese military pilots on how…
By Eva Fu | Epoch Times WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill mandating the declassification of intelligence related to the origins of COVID-19, saying that he shares “Congress’s goal of releasing as much information as possible” on the issue. “We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins to help ensure we can…
by Luis Miguel “Militarization for me, but not for thee.” That is the frequent attitude of global superpowers when they see smaller states wisely building up their military capabilities, viewing it as a potential threat to their ability to boss the smaller country around. This is where China now stands. As Japan takes the first steps…
1440 News Four associates of the antigovernment Oath Keepers militia group were found guilty yesterday of obstructing an official proceeding, among an array of other charges, for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the US Capitol. Two others were found guilty of lesser charges of entering and remaining on restricted grounds. The verdicts mark the…
A pension reform bill raising the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 in France was passed into law Monday after a no-confidence motion failed to pass the National Assembly. The vote was planned late last week after President Emmanuel Macron’s chosen prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, used a procedural tactic to prematurely curtail debate on the bill. …