By Christopher Burroughs President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better spending plan would raise taxes on middle-class Americans, according to a study released Thursday, despite the president’s pledge that taxes would only increase for Americans earning $400,000 or more per year. The Tax Policy Center study instead revealed a significant percentage of middle-income households would pay increased taxes in 2022 based […]
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Biden Administration Weighs Shutting Another Pipeline, White House Confirms
By Jack Phillips The Biden administration is reviewing shutting a pipeline in Michigan after anonymously sourced reports said federal officials were quietly studying its potential environmental impact, a White House spokeswoman confirmed on Nov. 8. When pressed by a reporter during a news conference, White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre disputed reports saying President Joe Biden is going to terminate […]
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Mass Walkouts, Protests Against Vaccine Mandates Spread Across US
By Allan Stein Thousands of people across the United States took the day off from work on Nov. 3 to participate in walkouts and demonstrations in protest of CCP virus vaccine mandates. In Phoenix, Arizona, more than 200 people gathered in protest outside the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza. Many carried homemade signs and wore patriotic clothing in support […]
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Washington Post Corrects Story Claiming Crowd Was Chanting ‘Let’s Go Brandon’
By Zachary Stieber The Washington Post has corrected a story that falsely stated a crowd at a recent speech was chanting “Let’s Go Brandon.” The crowd was actually chanting “[expletive] Joe Biden,” according to video footage of the speech, which was delivered by Donald Trump Jr. in Georgia last month. The original story said that Trump Jr. […]
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Federal Judge Rules Against Natural Immunity Claim Challenging COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
By Jack Phillips A federal judge on Oct. 8 denied a request to block Michigan State University’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on the basis of natural immunity. An employee at the school, Jeanna Norris, filed a lawsuit against the mandate and asked a judge to intervene on the basis that she had already contracted COVID-19 and recovered. She presented two antibody […]
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Arizona Senate Hears of Multiple Inconsistencies Found by Election Audit
By Jack Phillips and Mimi Nguyen Ly This article was updated with the findings presented during the Arizona Senate’s hearing and the auditors’ report provided to the Arizona Senate. Arizona attorney general says his office will review findings. Lawmakers were told on Friday during a hearing on an audit conducted in Arizona’s most populous county, Maricopa County, of inconsistencies uncovered during a forensic […]
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Fed Faces Jittery Markets Ahead of Key Policy Meeting That Will Consider Stimulus Rollback
By Tom Ozimek Markets remained jittery from China’s Evergrande troubles as investors look to the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting Sept. 21–22 for developments around policymakers’ projections for future rate hikes and the timing and pace of tapering the central bank’s massive bond buying program. Asian stocks struggled to shake off contagion fears on Sept. 21 […]
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GM Extends EV Bolt Production Halt to Mid-October
By Reuters WASHINGTON—General Motors Co. said on Thursday it will extend a shutdown of a Michigan assembly plant to mid-October following a new recall of its Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles over battery issues after 12 reported fires. The largest U.S. automaker said the extension of the production halt at its Orion Assembly plant will go through at […]
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Millions of Americans Set to Lose Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Next Week, No Signs of States Extending
By Tom Ozimek Millions of Americans are set to lose their federal pandemic unemployment benefits as a Sept. 6 deadline approaches for an end to the emergency programs, with dim prospects for any extensions in light of surging demand for workers and reports that states are not moving to extend them. Around 7.5 million Americans are set […]
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Retail Sales Fall In July, Driven by Sharp Drop In Auto Buying
By Tom Ozimek U.S. retail sales fell more than expected in July, dragged down chiefly by weak buying of automobiles as chip shortages continued to squeeze supplies. Retail and food services sales fell 1.1 percent in July, following a revised 0.7 percent gain in June and a 1.7 percent drop in May, according to an advance estimate […]
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States Set to Begin Redistricting After Census Publishes 2020 Data
By Masooma Haq Most states have had to delay their redistricting efforts because of the U.S. Census Bureau’s pandemic-related challenges. On Thursday, the Bureau officially released its 2020 census data, which sets states up to begin quickly drawing up their districts ahead of state and federal elections. The 2020 Census data shows overall population growth, with the […]
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Fight Social Media Censorship by Suing for Discrimination, Think Tank Head Urges
By Matthew Vadum The best way to fight social media censorship is to promote model state legislation all across the country that gives users the right to sue when a tech platform engages in discrimination, John Hinderaker, president of Minnesota’s Center for the American Experiment, told The Epoch Times in an exclusive interview. In a July 30 column at the Power […]
