The Energy Department’s order “will result in American households paying even higher electricity bills,” warned one consumer advocate. Consumers are set to foot the bill after the Trump administration intervened late last week to prevent the closure of the fossil fuel-powered Eddystone Generating Station, a Pennsylvania plant owned by Constellation Energy that was set to […]
“It is unacceptable that Palestinians are risking their lives for food,” said the United Nations secretary-general. Israeli forces on Tuesday gunned down dozens of people, including children, close to a privatized aid distribution site in southern Gaza, marking the third consecutive day that Israel’s military has opened fire on Palestinians seeking food amid an increasingly dire humanitarian emergency. […]
“The most cynical aspect of it all is that he is deluded enough to believe that now admitting what he knew all along makes him look principled,” said one critic. Matthew Miller—the former U.S. State Department spokesperson who smirked and lied his way through the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s annihilation of Gaza—now acknowledges that Israel has […]
“The House bill addresses none of the nation’s key economic challenges usefully and exacerbates many of them.” Half a dozen Nobel Prize-winning economists on Monday expressed their “grave concerns” about the sprawling budget reconciliation package passed last month by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, warning that slashing an already frayed social safety net and exploding the […]