Month: June 2023

Wray Says FBI Is Responding to Durham Report’s Criticisms

June 21, 2023
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said his agency had responded extensively to the criticisms found in the report of special counsel John Durham. Released last month, it led some outraged Republicans to call for the shutdown of the storied federal investigation agency. Durham’s report, after years of investigation, called the FBI’s investigation of former President Donald…

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Respiratory Disease Registry Seeks to Combat Silicosis

June 21, 2023
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A national registry will be established for deadly workplace respiratory diseases as the federal government seeks to tackle the prevalence of silicosis. If passed, the law will require mandatory reporting of the disease, which affects nearly one-in-four engineered stone workers in the industry before 2018. But the peak union representing workers wants a ban on…

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House Oversight Committee Hearing on ‘Addressing Post-Pandemic Backlogs and Delays at Federal Agencies’

June 21, 2023
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The House Oversight Committee holds a hearing on “Addressing Post-Pandemic Backlogs and Delays at Federal Agencies” at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 21.   …

LIVE NOW: House Oversight Committee Hearing on ‘Addressing Post-Pandemic Backlogs and Delays at Federal Agencies’

June 21, 2023
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The House Oversight Committee holds a hearing on “Addressing Post-Pandemic Backlogs and Delays at Federal Agencies” at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 21.   …

LIVE 2 PM ET: House Oversight Committee Hearing on ‘Addressing Post-Pandemic Backlogs and Delays at Federal Agencies’

June 21, 2023
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The House Oversight Committee holds a hearing on “Addressing Post-Pandemic Backlogs and Delays at Federal Agencies” at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 21.   …

Recent Bank Failures Show More Oversight of Midsize Lenders Needed, Fed’s Powell Says

June 21, 2023
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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March shows that more oversight of midsize lenders is needed, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers in his semi-annual testimony. While banking stress occurred in the fallout of the SVB and Signature failures, the Fed Chair reiterated that “the U.S. banking system is sound…

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Ukraine War Highlights a New Threat to the American Homeland

June 21, 2023
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Commentary Ukraine has become a proving ground for many of the tactics, techniques, and technologies that will transform that next era of warfare. One recent development foreshadows a novel, potentially strategic threat against the U.S. homeland. CNN reported last week that pro-Ukraine partisan forces have conducted drone strikes, covertly launched from within Russian territory, against targets…

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Housing Starts See Biggest Monthly Gain Since 1990, but Trend Unsustainable

June 21, 2023
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New U.S. housing starts registered the biggest monthly increase in more than 30 years in May, but some experts raised doubts about whether the trend is sustainable. “Privately owned housing starts in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,631,000. This is 21.7 percent above the revised April estimate of 1,340,000,” according to…

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Man Charged With Sex Assaults on 2 Unconscious Women in Irvine

June 21, 2023
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A 47-year-old man was charged on June 20 with sexually assaulting two unconscious women in Irvine. Eleuterio Gomezgodinez was charged with rape of an unconscious person and rape, with the alleged crimes occurring on February 20, 2015, and oral copulation of an unconscious person on May 8, 2022, all felonies, according to court records. He…

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What the Homeless Owe Us

June 21, 2023
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Commentary We often hear about what “we”—i.e., society—owe the homeless. But we rarely discuss what the unhoused owe us. It’s time for that to change. This is a matter of great urgency. Some of our (once) most prosperous and beautiful cities—San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc.—are imploding under the pressure of squalid homeless squatter camps,…

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