Month: February 2023

Canada’s Economy Flatlined in Last Quarter of 2022 Following Year of GDP Growth: StatCan

After nearly five quarters in a row of gross domestic product (GDP) increases, Canada’s economy flatlined in the last quarter of 2022—expanding at a rate of zero percent with GDP decreasing in December 2022, according to Statistics Canada. The federal agency writes that “slower inventory accumulations” along with declining amounts of business investments in machinery, equipment,…


Rep. Huizenga Raises Alarm Over Chinese Links to Group Pushing Gas Stove Ban

Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) is sounding the alarm about links between China and an organization that has advocated against the continued use of gas stoves in the United States. Gas stoves have been the subject of increased debate in recent weeks after a recent study linked their use with an increased risk of childhood asthma,…


Biden Targets ‘MAGA Republicans’ in Health Care Speech Amid Growing Discontent With Economy

President Joe Biden accused “MAGA Republicans” of pursuing a radical plan that he claimed would deprive millions of families of health coverage and threaten to tank the U.S. economy during a speech in Virginia Beach on Tuesday. Biden touted his plans to safeguard Americans’ access to affordable health care and stated that congressional Republicans are…


Biden Renews Attacks on ‘MAGA Republicans’ Amid Growing Discontent With Economy

President Joe Biden accused “MAGA Republicans” of pursuing a radical plan that he claimed would deprive millions of families of health coverage and threaten to tank the U.S. economy during a speech in Virginia Beach on Tuesday. Biden touted his plans to safeguard Americans’ access to affordable health care and stated that congressional Republicans are…


Biden Renewed His Attacks on ‘MAGA Republicans’ Amid Growing Discontent With Economy

President Joe Biden accused “MAGA Republicans” of pursuing a radical plan that he claimed would deprive millions of families of health coverage and threaten to tank the U.S. economy during a speech in Virginia Beach on Tuesday. Biden touted his plans to safeguard Americans’ access to affordable health care and stated that congressional Republicans are…


Democrat Senator Gives Support for GOP Effort to Rescind ‘Soft-on-Crime’ DC Law

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) became the first Democrat to openly express support for a Republican-led effort to rescind a contentious Washington, D.C., crime law—a code that had been vetoed by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser in a move subsequently overruled by D.C.’s City Council. The Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA), which…


LIVE NOW: House Select Committee on the CCP Hearing on ‘The Chinese Communist Party’s Threat to America’

The U.S. House Select Committee on The Chinese Communist Party holds its very first hearing at 7:00 p.m. ET on Feb. 28 to receive testimonies on the Chinese Communist Party’s threat to America. …


LIVE 7 PM ET: House Select Committee on the CCP Hearing on ‘The Chinese Communist Party’s Threat to America’

The U.S. House Select Committee on The Chinese Communist Party holds its very first hearing at 7:00 p.m. ET on Feb. 28 to receive testimonies on the Chinese Communist Party’s threat to America. …


DeSantis Touts Decisive, Sometimes Divisive, Leadership in De Facto Campaign Speech

NORTH VENICE, Fla.—When Ron DeSantis arrived in Tallahassee in January 2019 after winning Florida’s 2018 gubernatorial race by 32,000 votes—less than a half-percent of 8 million ballots cast—he was told by insiders, experts, and pundits that the narrow victory was cause for cautious moderation in managing the swing state. “I rejected that advice,” he said….


DeSantis Touts Decisive, Sometimes Divisive, Leadership in Book Tour, Pep Rally, Not-Officially-Yet-a-Campaign Speech

NORTH VENICE, Fla.—When Ron DeSantis arrived in Tallahassee in January 2019 after winning Florida’s 2018 gubernatorial race by 32,000 votes—less than a half-percent of 8 million ballots cast—he was told by insiders, experts, and pundits that the narrow victory was cause for cautious moderation in managing the swing state. “I rejected that advice,” he said….