Congressional Democrats want investigations “at every level of government of what went wrong” and to “stop the dismantling of federal agencies.” U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem renewed her call Wednesday to “eliminate” the Federal Emergency Management Agency calling it “slow to respond” to the deadly floods that have killed more than 120 people in Texas over the […]
Undeterred by the backlash and widespread delays that followed his disruptive operational changes at the U.S. Postal Service last year, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is reportedly planning to roll out another slate of policies that would significantly hike postage rates and further slow the delivery of certain kinds of mail. While the plan has yet to be finalized, new […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Seismologists at the University of California, Riverside studying earthquakes in the seismically and volcanically active Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone have found that “slow earthquakes” are occurring continuously, and could encourage damaging earthquakes. Slow earthquakes are quiet, can be as large as magnitude 7, and last days to years. Taking place mainly at the […]
The International Monetary Fund says the U.S. economy will grow 2 percent this year.That is slightly faster than last year, but below its earlier prediction of 2.7 percent from the IMF, Reuters reported.Economists said unusually harsh winter weather crimped business activity and made the world’s biggest economy shrink a bit in the first three months of this […]