GDP Revised Down For Every Q1 From 2020 to 2022

U.S. economic activity was either even weaker or not as strong as previously estimated in each of the first quarters of 2020, 2021 and 2022 amid downgrades mostly to consumer spending, revised government data showed Thursday.[#item_full_content]

Q2 GDP Unrevised at 2.1%; Jobless Claims Edge Higher

The U.S. economy maintained a fairly strong pace of growth in the second quarter, the government confirmed on Thursday, and appears to have gathered momentum this quarter amid a resilient labor market.[#item_full_content]

These are the questions Republicans want answered in the Biden impeachment inquiry

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith R-Mo., on Wednesday night released a memo outlining the scope of the House Republican impeachment inquiry into President Biden.  The memo comes ahead of the first impeachment inquiry hearing hosted by House Oversight Committee, […]

MAGA PAC’s Leavitt: GOP Debates a ‘Waste of Time’

Republican presidential debates are a “waste of time,” Karoline Leavitt, the spokeswoman for Make America Great Again, the super PAC backing former President Donald Trump, said after Wednesday’s debate.[#item_full_content]

DeSantis Promises Civil Rights Cases Against Prosecutors

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday night that as president, he would use the Department of Justice to bring civil rights cases against “left-wing Soros-funded prosecutors” to stop rising urban crime in the nation…[#item_full_content]

Michael Gambon, Dumbledore Actor in ‘Harry Potter,’ Dead at 82

Veteran actor Michael Gambon, who was known to many for his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 82.A statement by his family, issued by his publicist, said he died…[#item_full_content]

In Sweden, death toll caused by gun violence is rapidly escalating

Three people were killed overnight in separate incidents in Sweden as deadly violence linked to a feud between criminal gangs escalated. Late Wednesday, an 18-year-old man was shot dead in a Stockholm suburb. Hours later, a man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting in Jordbro, south of the Swedish capital. Early Thursday […]

Wandering moose causing havoc in Stockholm subway shot dead

A moose which was found wandering down the tracks of the Stockholm subway and causing havoc was shot dead by a wildlife ranger on Wednesday after the service on the southern part of a busy line had to be suspended. The moose somehow managed to enter the enclosure that surrounds the tracks and roamed the […]

Gang violence, killings, rapes in Haiti continue to escalate, UN says

Gang violence in Haiti is escalating and spreading from the capital Port-au-Prince through the center of the country to its two other major cities, Gonaives and Cap-Hatien, with a significant increase in killings, kidnappings and rapes in the past few months, the U.N. chief said in a report circulated Wednesday. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in […]