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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is signaling she will vote to reopen the House floor Tuesday after a weekslong power struggle with Speaker Mike Johnson over a partisan election security bill known as the SAVE America Act. In an X post Monday night, the Florida Republican suggested she would support a procedural rule that will finally allow the chamber to consider legislation, including a bill to fund the State Department and a measure to make daylight saving time permanent — a major priority for her home state as well as for President Donald Trump. Luna said she would do so now…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Friday that an American citizen has contracted Ebola while performing humanitarian work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). CDC did not identify the Ebola patient but said it was coordinating with his employer, as well as U.S. and DRC health officials, to ensure the patient receives proper care, and there is no further transmission of Ebola. The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it was aware of the incident, and was involved with supporting the patient. On Sunday, a spokesman for the disaster relief organization Samaritan’s Purse…

How to Reinvigorate the Wages of Young Workers and Revive American Birthrates In 1978, Richard Easterlin stood before the Population Association of America and predicted that the wages of young American men — falling since 1973 — would turn around by 1984. He had earned the confidence. As we have discussed in the past, Easterlin’s relative cohort size hypothesis was the most successful applied demography of its era, and it had already explained the biggest population event in American history—the Baby Boom. He replaced the mysticism about returning GIs, swooning Rosie Riveters, and suburban optimism with actual social science. The…

Wisconsin Democratic Socialist gubernatorial candidate and State Rep. Francesca Hong claimed it is “cowardly” for hospitals to stop providing sex change drugs and surgeries to minors. Hong once again backed “gender-affirming care” for confused youth during a “Community Conversations” live stream with Brix Cider on Sunday.   “Everyone in our state deserves to feel safe, and our LGBTQ students and community deserve to live a life of dignity and be themselves, their most authentic selves. Any legislation that comes on my desk that attacks the LGBT community will be an immediate veto,” Hong said.  “And that our schools, you know — we…

Sen. Ron Johnson doesn’t know when he will officially take over as chair of the Senate Budget Committee, a post left vacant by the sudden death Saturday of Sen. Lindsey Graham. But the Wisconsin Republican is wasting no time getting ready. “I’ve already met with Lindsey’s staff this afternoon,” Johnson said soon after arriving at the Capitol on Monday. He acknowledged the gravity of his longtime colleague’s loss and said he understood the need to “take one step at a time.” But he also said he is hoping to quickly pick up where Graham left off on a new party-line…

Businesses are racing to automate, but many staff are being left without the retraining, clarity, or safeguards needed to adapt A comprehensive new study of the global workforce finds that ‘anxiety’ is the best definition for how most workers feel about their career, their future, and the AI tsunami that threatens to wash it all away.These days, everyone from doctors to lawyers and accountants to clerks are pondering the same question: will some machine eventually take over my job and what can I do to prepare for what appears to be an inevitability?Just 22% of workers worldwide strongly agreed that…

Ofir Katz, head of the Israeli parliamentary coalition that supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday that national elections will be held on October 27. It will be the first such election since Hamas launched the Gaza War by kidnapping, killing, and raping hundreds of Israeli civilians in the October 7, 2023, massacre. The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, voted almost unanimously to dissolve on May 20, setting the stage for national elections. The vote in the 120-seat chamber was 106 in favor of dissolution, and zero against. The vote was triggered by a falling-out between Netanyahu’s governing coalition and…

Senate Judiciary Democrats have invited Danielle Bensky, a survivor of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to testify against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his quest to lead the Justice Department permanently. Bensky will sit on a panel of outside witnesses to be convened Thursday, the day after Blanche sits for his confirmation hearing before the panel. Democrats decision to include her underscores their intent to make Blanche’s confirmation process about his handling of the release of the so-called Epstein files, which were rolled out late and with botched redactions. “Dani Bensky is a brave survivor of Jeffrey…

Tehran has reported hitting multiple US bases across the Middle East in response to continued American attacks Iran has launched renewed strikes on American military facilities in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman overnight, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) saying it hit at least six bases in statements on Monday. The large-scale operation is a response to continued US strikes on targets across the Islamic Republic, according to Tehran.The US has bombed Iran for four consecutive nights. It follows continued disagreement on the interpretation of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by Washington and Tehran in mid-June, with both…

National self-sufficiency beats globalism’s mass dependency. What makes a nation wealthy?  It’s not just arable lands surrounded by other lands filled with water, timber, coal, gas, oil, metals, and minerals.  It’s the farmer who knows best how to cultivate those lands in order to maximize food production.  It’s the woodsman, miner, fisherman, and oilman who can extract nature’s bounty and provide the raw materials for every kind of manufacturer.  Producing things requires knowledge and skill.  Competition between producers creates an incentive to innovate.  This motor of discovery — in which human ingenuity uses established knowledge and long-harnessed skills as inputs for creating new forms of…