A Florida former mayor resigned abruptly earlier this week because he disagreed with the “reckless” way the city council wanted to spend tax dollars, he told Fox News. “We’ve had very little debt, but the spreadsheets that we were looking at this past Monday showed a number of projects and the funding shortfall was a quarter of a billion dollars,” former Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard said.
President Biden announced this week that he is committed to working with lawmakers who have backed tearing down four hydropower dams in Washington to protect salmon species. Biden remarked during a conservation event Tuesday that he would work with tribes, Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, to “bring healthy and abundant salmon runs back” to the Columbia River system.
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., is expected back to work “soon,” his office said Thursday, though a return is still more than a week away. Fetterman, 53, was only weeks into his service when he checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Feb. 15. During his campaign in Pennsylvania, Fetterman’s health was repeatedly targeted by his critics.
Americans saw a number of viral moments during Thursday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing focused on security concerns surrounding the use of TikTok in the U.S. During the hearing, lawmakers questioned TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over allegations the platform may be being used by China to spy on Americans, its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the inappropriate content contained within it. In one viral moment, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla.
Numerous police vehicles arrived on scene to assess the situation.
Wisconsin’s newly appointed secretary of state said Thursday that she had no idea Gov. Tony Evers was going to offer her the job, defusing Republican allegations that her appointment was part of a long-planned scheme tied to her dropping out of a U.S. Senate race last year. Evers announced Friday that longtime Secretary of State Doug La Follette, a Democrat who narrowly hung on to the position in November, had abruptly resigned.
During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, John Kirby argued that Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin is “a manifestation of how much China and Russia know that American leadership on the world stage is back” and that there is “a marriage of convenience, certainly not one of affection” between the two.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Thursday on his show “The Lead” that former President Donald Trump’s latest attack on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was “another level.
Paramount Pictures will release the redone 1958 psychological thriller
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that China needed to be more transparent on the origins of COVID.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on Thursday was an “abject disaster” for TikTok, and even appeared to result in lawmakers announcing their support for banning the China-owned app, according to one former Politico writer, and many other verified users on Twitter seem to agree.
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‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’
The sheet was passed around on Thursday ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony
The Federal Reserve appears to expect economic growth to come crashing to an abrupt halt later this year.
Seagal’s relationship with Russia and Russian President Vladmir Putin is well-established
‘His hand is like, all the way cut up.
Amid a surge in illegal migration
‘I’m here to describe TikTok and what we do’
‘He broke all of his front teeth, they flew across my apartment’
‘Used to target more Americans’
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‘We’ve essentially ‘refounded’ Ford’
Former White House press secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Wednesday on “All In” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) couldn’t beat former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination by being the “culture war hero.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis toughened his stance on Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling Putin a “war criminal” who should be “held accountable” for the invasion of Ukraine, just days after he claimed the Ukraine war is not a “vital national interest.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” Harvard University Economics Professor and former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund Ken Rogoff predicted that the Federal Reserve will “leave inflation higher for longer” due to fear of endangering the banking sector despite
‘I’m thankful justice has prevailed’
‘China is currently building two new coal plants every week’
