Category: Politics
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Georgia special election and South Dakota runoff test party power
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The polls have closed in Georgia as two races in politically disparate parts of the country set the stage for one of the most unusual split-screen election days of the year on Tuesday.Rep. David Scott’s death in April at age 80 created a vacancy in a heavily…
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Mamdani’s NYC grocery stores promise 30% savings, economists aren’t convinced
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is promising New Yorkers a 30% discount on a core basket of groceries at city-backed stores, a pledge that now faces scrutiny over whether the numbers add up.The announcement raises a straightforward economic question: How?The city’s own numbers illustrate the challenge.…
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Mamdani’s NYC grocery stores promise 30% savings, economists aren’t convinced
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing fresh criticism after unveiling plans for city-backed grocery stores that would sell food at prices 30% below traditional retailers, with opponents deriding the proposal as government-run “ration shops” and questioning how the discounts could be sustained.”This is completely insane.…
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Partial block of Texas’ censorship law is upheld in court
Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, some of the past week’s top stories from the intersection of politics and technology. Texas’ censorship law still partially blocked The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld an injunction partially blocking a Texas law aimed at preventing minors from being exposed to harmful content. The…
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Tuesday’s Mini-Report, 7.28.26
Today’s edition of quick hits. * The latest on the Japanese earthquake: “A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall. Speaking to reporters from her office in Tokyo, Japanese Prime…
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Burnham to seek cross-party consensus over urgent reforms to social care | Social care
Andy Burnham has promised “problem-solving, not point-scoring” before a speech on social care in which he will set out his strategy for resolving one of the most intractable issues in British politics.The prime minister has invited Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, and Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, to discuss how to enact urgent reform…
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Gorsuch rejects idea that U.S. was founded as a Christian nation
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch rejected the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, contrasting sharply to a view held by some prominent conservatives. Asked during an interview with PBS on Sunday about some conservatives’ beliefs that the U.S is rooted “in the same heritage and the same religion,” Gorsuch stood…
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Dylan Mulvaney gave a flawless response to Trump’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech
In a TikTok video shared Sunday evening, actor and influencer Dylan Mulvaney addressed the fact that the Friday before, President Donald Trump mentioned her name a total of four times at his awkward and meandering White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech. In his address, the president mocked the appearance of CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, who…
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Greenwater’s no-bid contract on Tijuana river pilot preceded Reflecting Pool work
A year before the Trump administration awarded Greenwater Services a $1.7 million no-bid contract to clean the algae-filled Reflecting Pool, it gave the company, owned by a Trump donor, a $2.4 million no-bid contract to test its “nanobubble” technology in California’s polluted Tijuana River. Critics have questioned the results of the pilot and whether the…
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FEE president Diogo Costa discusses the intellectual defense of capitalism at Freedom Fest
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the global economy at breakneck speed, but Diogo Costa argues that the real threat to prosperity isn’t technological disruption; it’s the return of bad economic ideas.As the president of FEE (the Foundation for Economic Education), America’s oldest free-market think tank, Costa is…