The authority President Joe Biden used could make it difficult for the incoming Trump administration to reverse the sweeping drilling ban. Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf […]
“We need an economy that works for all, not just the few. And one important way forward in that direction is to bring about major reforms in the H-1B program.” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime advocate of reforming H-1B visas, on Thursday reiterated his argument that “widespread corporate abuse” of the guest worker program must […]
One analyst said the House Ethics Committee has “effectively legalized the conversion of campaign funds for personal use.” The bipartisan House Ethics Committee announced earlier this week that it unanimously opted to close several investigations involving alleged campaign finance violations by three Republicans and one Democrat, a move that one expert characterized as a “New […]
The superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department said that “this man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could.” A man driving a pickup truck plowed through a crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the early hours of Wednesday morning, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more […]