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The following content is sponsored by the American Chemistry Council and is written by its president and CEO, Chris Jahn. The 50-year-old regulatory backbone that governs chemical safety is failing to function. President Trump has been a tireless champion for American manufacturing and American workers. And his America First economic agenda has helped catalyze trillions of dollars in new investment across domestic manufacturing, technology, and infrastructure. But, when it comes to America’s vital chemical manufacturing sector, the U.S. is in an economic global race with one arm tied behind its back. The regulatory backbone that governs chemical safety, the Toxic…

Rep. James Comer says he’s working to schedule testimonies from Attorney General Pam Bondi and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick within the next few weeks as part of the congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m in communication with them,” Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told reporters Wednesday morning as he prepared to attend a deposition with Richard Kahn, Epstein’s accountant. “We’re trying to get them in very, very soon.” Comer’s panel voted to subpoena Bondi last week to compel her testimony about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case, amid…

Over $430 billion has been spent to service the debt, which is approaching $39 trillion, the Congressional Budget Office states The US government has borrowed some $1 trillion in the five months since October, adding to the ballooning federal deficit, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has reported.The estimates have come amid media reports claiming that the US military burned through $5.6 billion worth of munitions during the first two days of its assault on Iran.On Monday, the CBO released its monthly budget review, according to which the US government’s debt grew by $308 billion in February alone. Among the factors…

The US reportedly lacks the capacity to probe the murder of around 170 children in Minab after civilian protection units were cut by 90% US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth reportedly gutted Pentagon oversight offices that would normally help investigate the deadly US strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 170 people last month, according to a Politico report.Current and former civilian protection officers told the outlet that the number of Pentagon employees focused on mitigating civilian casualties has dropped under Hegseth from around 200 to less than 40.The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence was among the…

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Amanpour,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said, “How can we criticize Putin going into Ukraine? How can we criticize Xi if he were to push Chinese forces into Taiwan or elsewhere,” after the war in Iran and argued that the war “gives Russia and China greater credence to say that they can do whatever they want.” Kim said, “I’ll just say and point out that the people that are happiest about the United States [being] at war in Iran are Vladimir Putin and Xi — and President Xi in China. Our adversaries are…

The International Energy Agency has proposed the largest release of oil reserves in its history to bring down crude prices that have soared during the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The proposed release of 400 million barrels would more than double the agency’s previous record, set in 2022 when IEA member countries released 182 million barrels after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to the Journal. The proposal was circulated at an emergency meeting of energy officials from the IEA’s 32 member countries on Tuesday.Countries are expected to decide on the proposal Wednesday. The measure…

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has moaned he was punched in the face by a fellow Rikers Island inmate and is “constantly threatened and derided” by other prisoners. Weinstein made his claim in a self-pitying one-hour interview with the Hollywood Reporter conceding he “wouldn’t last long” among the general prison population while despairing Gwyneth Paltrow betrayed him with sexual harassment claims. Weinstein, who uses a wheelchair to compensate for his lack of mobility, insisted safety concerns at the notorious New York City lockup have kept him confined to his cell for 23 hours a day because when he is out of confinement bad…

DORAL, Florida — House GOP leaders discussed trying to attach military aid to a party-line policy package during a closed-door meeting Tuesday afternoon, according to three people granted anonymity to share details of private conversations. Speaker Mike Johnson and his team are weighing a variety of options, including the filibuster-skirting budget reconciliation process, to pass some or all of the tens of billions of dollars in funding they expect the Pentagon to request in the coming days to assist in the U.S. conflict with Iran. The leadership meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the House GOP policy retreat…

America should “behave with honor” and admit mistakes whenever it is in the wrong, the journalist has said The United States is “not worth fighting for” if it carried out the bombing of an Iranian school but refuses to admit responsibility, American journalist Tucker Carlson has said.Speaking on his YouTube podcast on Tuesday, Carlson insisted that the country cannot claim the moral high ground if it avoids acknowledging civilian casualties. He was referring to a strike on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of large-scale US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Iranian reports said…

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said at a Breitbart News policy event on Tuesday that the agency is working to “reinvigorate and empower” local broadcast television stations, noting how little trust there is in national media. Carr discussed his plan to “reinvigorate and empower” local broadcast television stations in a sit-down interview with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle. Current FCC rules limit a single entity’s ability to own television stations that reach more than 39 percent of American television households. Another regulation bars the number of stations a company can own. Otherwise known as the “top 4” rule, it…