Almost every important metric shows that the Trump admin’s policies were better for the economy By Justin Haskins  | Fox News A survey conducted by Gallup at the end of March found that 55% of Americans say they care about inflation “a great deal,” the highest level of concern recorded among all the issues listed. The economy, health care costs and federal spending also ranked among the top issues. In fact, the only non-economic topic among the top six issues by respondents in Gallup’s poll was “crime and violence,” which was identified by 53% of Americans as a hi ..read more

In the Beacon Center’s most recent case, they joined Roberto Clemente’s family as they stand up for their property rights against the government of Puerto Rico, which has appropriated Clemente’s trademark against his family’s wishes, and at the expense of his and his family’s reputation.  In an op-ed this month in The Hill that Justin Owen coauthored with Wen Fa, we explain, “There has been some debate about whether courts would allow property owners to recover money from the government when it takes their property. In my home state of Tennessee, property owners are out of ..read more

By Katherine Donlevy | New York Post Three bodies were found near a popular Mexican surfing destination where an American and two Australian tourists vanished last week, according to a report. Three sources close to the investigation confirmed the discovery to Reuters Friday, nearly a week after Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, and brothers Callum, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30, were last seen in the province of Baja California. They were enjoying a surfing vacation in the port city of Ensenada, just 80 miles south of San Diego, a trip they were documenting on social media until Saturday, whe ..read more

Blue-collar workers in the U.S. labor market are in higher demand than “knowledge-based” white-collar professionals, economists say. Employment data indicates a higher unemployment rate for professional and business services workers and a lower one for people who work in manufacturing.  The U.S. isn’t the only country experiencing the trend. Australia, Canada, and the U.K. are also struggling to fill roles like mechanics, nurses, and electricians. According to Indeed, nurses, mechanics, sales, customer service, and retail are among the most searched-for job resumes in ..read more

Andy Lyons/Getty Bill Romanowski© Provided by People Story by Danielle Jennings The DOJ alleges that for several years Romanowski, 58, along with his wife Julie, used their company Nutrition53 to avoid paying taxes Bill Romanowski, the former NFL linebacker and four-time Super Bowl champion, recently filed for bankruptcy due to a multi-million unpaid tax bill that prompted a lawsuit from the federal government. U.S. attorneys for the Department of Justice allege that for several years Romanowski, 58, along with his wife Julie, used their company Nutrition53 to avoid paying  ..read more

By Cesar Conda | Washington Examiner America’s economic prosperity is built on free-market capitalism that rewards work, saving, investment, and, most important of all, entrepreneurial risk-taking. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden’s plan to significantly raise taxes on capital gains, which are so often the reward for taking such risks, would undermine these pillars of economic growth and upward mobility.  Biden’s budget for the next fiscal year proposes an increase in the maximum capital gains tax to 45%, substantially higher than the current 20% level. If enact ..read more

Judge Juan Merchan stated that his gag order doesn’t prohibit the former president from testifying. By Jack Phillips | Epoch Times The judge in the so-called “hush-money” case involving former President Donald Trump said Friday that he can testify in the case and that his gag order won’t apply in that circumstance. A day earlier, President Trump said that he “is not allowed [to] testify” due to Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order that prohibits him from speaking about certain individuals, including witnesses, involved in the case. “I’m under a gag order. Right?” he asked Thursday, adding that ..read more

‘We are concerned about this whether it happens in China or Russia or elsewhere in the world,’ a White House National Security Council spokesperson said. Falun Gong practitioners gather on the square in front of Finlyandsky Station in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on July 20, 2013, to commemorate practitioners who were persecuted to death in China. (Irina Oshirova/Epoch Times) By Eva Fu | Epoch Times Russian authorities on May 3 raided the homes of five practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline and detained four of them, under the controversial law against “carrying out the activit ..read more

Mr. Dean had filed a complaint with the FAA alleging serious and gross misconduct with quality control management at Spirit AeroSystems. A former quality auditor at a Boeing supplier died suddenly this week after struggling with a “sudden, fast-spreading infection,” the Seattle Times reported on May 1. Joshua “Josh” Dean, a Spirit AeroSystems employee who was one of the first to allege his company had ignored manufacturing defects on Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft, died at 45 years old on Tuesday, a family member confirmed to the outlet. He is the second whistleblower to die recently after John “M ..read more

By WILL KESSLER The U.S. added 175,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in April as the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. Economists anticipated that the country would add 243,000 jobs in April compared to the 303,000 jobs that were added in initial estimates for March, and that the unemployment rate would remain unchanged at 3.8%, according to Reuters. The job gains accompany recent slow economic growth, with gross domestic product totaling just 1.6% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2024.  ..read more