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Biden Admin Authorizes Chevron to Resume Oil Pumping in Venezuela

The Biden administration on Saturday authorized Chevron Corp.’s joint venture to resume oil pumping in Venezuela. “The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Venezuela General License (GL) 41, authorizing Chevron Corporation to resume limited natural resource extraction operations in Venezuela,” the Treasury Department said in a statement. The goal of…


Texas Comptroller Blasts Biden Administration Plan Advancing Retirement Funds Prioritizing ESG

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is finalizing a rule allowing companies to prioritize ESG policies when choosing retirement plans. It’s the last phase of a nearly two-year effort to reverse a Trump-era rule banning the practice. The department said it was implementing the rule to “remove barriers to plan fiduciaries’ ability to consider climate…


Musk Hints at Revealing Internal Discussion on Censoring NY Post’s Hunter Biden Story

Billionaire Elon Musk revealed on Wednesday that the inside discussions of Twitter’s board prior to the company deciding to censor the New York Post’s explosive story that exposed information on a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden should be made public. Musk made the disclosure while responding to a message that called on the new…


Republicans Criticize White House’s ‘Talking Points’ List of Biden’s ‘Top Accomplishments’

Republican lawmakers have taken aim at a list of President Joe Biden’s “top accomplishments” that the administration says can be used “when chatting with your Uncle at Thanksgiving.” White House deputy communications director Jennifer Molina shared the list of Biden’s so-called achievements in a post on Twitter on Wednesday. The list states that Biden’s accomplishments include “tackling inflation and…


Biden Admin Quietly Greenlights Plan to Build Huge Gulf Oil Terminal

The Biden administration has quietly approved plans to build a new crude oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas, seemingly in contradiction to the president’s climate agenda. The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration approved the application (pdf) for Enterprise’s Sea Port Oil Terminal, one of four proposed offshore oil export terminals, on Monday. According to the application, the port…


Biden Administration ‘Naive’ to Believe China Cold War Avoidable, Former US General Says

A former U.S. military leader is criticizing President Joe Biden’s lackluster meeting with Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping this month, following the president’s assertion that there is no cold war between the two nations. Biden said “there need not be a new cold war” after meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi this month…


Biden Approves Emergency Declaration for New York Amid Severe Snowstorm

President Joe Biden on Sunday approved a federal emergency declaration for nearly a dozen counties in New York after a severe winter storm buried regions in snow over the weekend. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s request for federal aid was accepted by the Biden administration for the counties Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Lewis, Niagara,…


Biden Opens Holidays, Pardons Turkeys Chocolate and Chip

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden continued a 75-year tradition Monday and pardoned a pair of Thanksgiving turkeys named after his favorite flavor of ice cream. Biden welcomed Chocolate and Chip before hundreds of people gathered on the South Lawn in unseasonably cold weather. Chocolate and Chip, each weighing nearly 50 pounds, were driven up from North Carolina…


LIVE 6 PM ET: Biden and the First Lady Participate in a Friendsgiving Dinner

The Biden family will attend a Friendsgiving dinner at Cherry Point with Marines and their families on Monday. The meal will be hosted by the Robert Irvine Foundation. Visiting Cherry Point is meant to be part of the first lady’s initiative to support military families. The Epoch Times will livestream the event on Nov. 21….


LIVE NOW: Biden and the First Lady Participate in a Friendsgiving Dinner

The Biden family will attend a Friendsgiving dinner at Cherry Point with Marines and their families on Monday. The meal will be hosted by the Robert Irvine Foundation. Visiting Cherry Point is meant to be part of the first lady’s initiative to support military families. The Epoch Times will livestream the event on Nov. 21….