President Joe Biden wants voters to believe his tax plans take from the rich to give to the poor, but in reality they rob us all to pay off the millionaires and billionaires who bankroll today’s Democratic Party. “Taxes,” Biden said in hardscrabble Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, where he returned to pretend he isn’t a money-larded creature of Washington, “are how we invest in the country.” Normally, this would be an absurd statement. Governments don’t invest in the economy; people do. But under Biden, the tax system has become a large vehicle for channeling investment. It should ..read more

The Department of Justice is close to reaching a settlement with the sexual abuse victims of former U.S. gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. According to the Wall Street Journal, the DOJ is expected to pay roughly $100 million to 100 victims of Nassar. The settlement was reportedly reached last fall, but the details are still being finalized. The settlement is in response to administrative tort claims filed by the gymnasts over the FBI’s failure to properly investigate the abuse claims against Nassar. In this Nov. 22, 2017, file photo, Dr. Larry Nassar, 54, appears in court for a plea hearing ..read more

NBCUniversal has plans to build a larger audience for the Paris Olympics with a parade of high-profile celebrities featured in their 7,000 hours of competi­tion coverage and related programming this summer. “This kind of celebrity wouldn’t have been part of NBC Olympics coverage of the past. Now it’s one of the foundational elements,” Rick Cordella, president of NBC Sports, said. “We’ve got to be innovating, trying things differently, trying to match where the media world is in 2024.” New year mood. Paris 2024 Olympics. C u this summer pic.twitter.com/vWUXIPdMVZ — Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) Jan ..read more

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced an amendment to require the conscription into the Ukrainian military of any House members who vote in favor of a Ukraine aid bill. “Any Member of Congress who votes in favor of this Act shall be required to conscript in the Ukrainian military,” the amendment, obtained by Axios reporter Juliegrace Brufke, read. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced an amendment requiring members to “conscript in the Ukrainian military” if they vote for the Ukraine supplemental bill. pic.twitter.com/n0SykKpA3I — Juliegrace Brufke (@juliegraceb) April 17, 2024 Quo ..read more

A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, alleging it illegally deleted the emails of federal employees in violation of federal law. America First Legal, led by former senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller, is suing Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan, and the National Archives and Records Administration. The lawsuit, shared on Wednesday, alleges that the agencies illegally destroyed federal records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in violation of the Federal Records Act. Health an ..read more

Nine Google employees, along with dozens of demonstrators, were arrested on Tuesday at the company’s offices in California and New York for holding a protest against Google’s corporate relationship with Israel. The demonstrators organized a sit-in protest for more than eight hours in the Sunnyvale, California, office of Thomas Kurian, the executive and CEO of Google Cloud. BREAKING: Google employees were arrested after occupying their boss's office for more than 8 hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/W4WQO8NNgH — Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) April 17 ..read more

The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher noted that as long as President Joe Biden refuses to change his immigration policy, any effort to hold Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable “won’t change anything.” On Wednesday, Senate Democrats quashed House Republicans’ effort to force the upper chamber to put the impeached Biden administration official on trial. In February, the House charged Mayorkas with willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and a breach of public trust related to his handling of the border crisis. “The reality is that i ..read more

As the COVID-19 vaccination divided people who had different schools of thought, a North Carolina teenager adopted from Ukraine was reportedly denied a kidney transplant from Duke University Hospital. Her newly adopted parents were not keen on forcing her to take the vaccine. Chrissy and Lee Hicks heard of others getting organ transplants at Duke who were unvaccinated, so they were hopeful it wouldn’t be a problem for their daughter. Yulia Hicks was reportedly denied a kidney transplant as a result of her vaccination status. According to a recorded phone call between the Hicks family and Duke ..read more

Biden administration officials announced Wednesday that they will reimpose punishing sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector, saying that the Maduro regime failed to uphold its commitments to hold free and fair elections. The Treasury Department had issued a six-month sanctions reprieve for Venezuela’s oil and gas sector last October. The authorization allowed the country’s state-run oil and gas companies to produce and export its supplies for six months, so long as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government followed through on its pledge to hold “free and fair elections” and allow p ..read more

Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher has been accused of obstructing the investigation into him by bipartisan leaders of the state House Ethics Committee. Some state legislators claimed witnesses did not testify because they feared the Republican leader would retaliate and that others could not be reached because Plocher controls who testifies, according to the Missouri Independent. Missouri Speaker of the House Dean Plocher listens as Gov. Mike Parson delivers the State of the State address, Jan. 24, 2024, in Jefferson City, Missouri. A Missouri ethics panel is at an impasse over reported misc ..read more