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[ad_1] United States Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Aerial. The United States Capitol is the meeting place of the United States Congress, the legislature of the Federal government of the United States. Located in Washington, D.C., it sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall. Several House Democrats expressed anger with Rep. Rashida Tlaib after the Democratic Congresswoman introduced a War Powers Resolution that would force President Donald Trump to halt Israel’s war against Lebanon.  The War Powers Resolution introduced by Tlaib in late March says, Tlaib unveiled her legislation in late March that requires the “removal…

[ad_1] The United States Trade Representative’s office proposed a minimum 10 percent tariff on 54 economies following an investigation, the first step to rebuild the President’s tariff policy after the Supreme Court struck down its “Liberation Day” tariffs. The investigation found that 54 economies had failed to prohibit or enforce prohibitions on imports of goods produced with forced labor.The proposal would impose a 10 percent tariff on five countries including Canada and Mexico and the European Union for failure to enforce prohibitions on those imports. Forty-eight other countries, including China, India, Japan, and Brazil, would face a 12.5 percent tariff…

[ad_1] Last night, the Trump Administration revealed plans to use Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose massive new tariffs on imports from some 60 countries around the world, under the pretext that this is necessary to combat their importation of goods that use forced labor: The Trump administration has taken a key step toward rebuilding a tariff wall around the U.S. economy, announcing new restrictions on goods from 60 trading partners that U.S. officials say lack sufficient prohibitions on the use of forced labor. Under the plan, goods from nations that the U.S. says have not…

[ad_1] When Robert Trivers died this year, I lost a friend and the world lost one of the few people who genuinely understood why we lie to ourselves. Skeptic readers know his work even if the name sits just out of reach—his fingerprints are on half of modern evolutionary psychology. Bob once let me fly him out to lecture my state pharmacy association on the science of deceit: a room full of pharmacists learning, from the man who worked it out, that the mind is built to fool its own owner before it fools anyone else. He was generous like…

[ad_1] Is your business “needed”? Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is “needed.” Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn’t proved her business was needed. “Why does the state of Louisiana have the right to stop me from doing what I love?” she asks in this update video. Good question. Newell-Davis has a master’s degree and a social work license. For two decades, she’s helped kids with special needs. One, Kamal, told us he struggled…

[ad_1] Kuwait reports that its airport suffered significant damage during an Iranian drone attack. Iran launched the attack shortly after the US targeted an Iranian ship.  “A number of hostile drones targeted today the passenger building (T1) at Kuwait International Airport, which resulted in significant material damage to the building and injuries to a number of individuals,” The Official Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Brigadier General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, said on Wednesday.  Central Command said that it was able to defend US soldiers in Kuwait from the Iranian attack. “US forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones,”…

[ad_1] On Tuesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed that the Justice Department will not implement President Donald Trump’s politically and legally contentious “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” which would have allocated $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to compensate purported victims of “an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration” (as Trump put it). But Blanche said another element of Trump’s “settlement agreement” with the IRS—a provision that shields him and his family from liability for tax violations and other federal offenses—remains in place. The Anti-Weaponization Fund, which was described in a May 18 agreement signed by Trump’s personal lawyers, Associate Attorney General Stanley…

[ad_1] In the U.S., the average college professor who donates to political candidates is “only slightly less left on the political spectrum than Bernie Sanders.” That’s the top-line finding from a new study of American academics’ political donations, commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The study scored academics’ political ideologies based on the voting records of the candidates to which they donated. It found that academics are increasingly donating to far-left politicians like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The study also found that the vast majority of politically active faculty cluster in that far-left neighborhood. “The figures…

[ad_1] A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,” or is it a new normal where Iran and Oman set the rules and the fees at the world’s most important oil chokepoint? From there, we get specific about the nuclear issue that could make or break everything. What does it actually mean to “destroy” enriched uranium, and what options exist that are…

[ad_1] The Trump administration says it’s working to reduce the amount of fraud in federal government programs. However, fiscal experts have said that those reductions alone won’t “save” the Social Security program or result in “a balanced budget,” as President Donald Trump has falsely suggested.  That’s because fraudulent overpayments in Social Security are a small fraction of that program’s total costs. Likewise, the most recent federal budget deficit was about 240% more than the highest federal estimate of annual spending due to fraud.  Yet during a May 27 meeting with members of his Cabinet, the president talked about his administration’s…