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New orders for durable goods rose sharply in May, propelled by a surge in aircraft contracts and a broader rebound in business investment. Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods increased 16.4 percent from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted $343.6 billion, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected a 7 percent increase. Much of the gain came from a 230.8 percent jump in orders for nondefense aircraft, a volatile category that often drives large monthly swings. Still, orders excluding the transportation sector rose 0.5 percent, exceeding expectations for a 0.1 percent decline, a…

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem observed a deportation flight of illegal aliens in Panama who sought to make it to the United States-Mexico border to cross illegally. Noem traveled to Panama City, Panama, on Tuesday to tout the Trump administration’s extension of an agreement between the U.S. and the Central American country that seeks to deport illegal aliens from Panama before they are ever able to make it to the U.S. Some of the illegal aliens deported on the flight had been convicted of sex crimes, robbery, and drug trafficking. “Under this understanding, 2,044 migrants without legal…

Senate Republicans are facing major new issues with their domestic policy megabill after the chamber’s parliamentarian advised senators that several provisions they are counting on to reap hundreds of billions of dollars in budget savings won’t be able to pass along party lines. Those include major pieces of Medicaid policy, including a politically explosive plan to hold down Medicaid costs by cracking down on a state provider tax — a provision that is expected to have a nine-figure impact on the bill. Republicans now will have to try to rewrite major sections of their Finance bill or potentially leave out…

The billionaire reportedly met the president at least twice in June with the aim of securing more government contracts for his space company, Blue Origin US billionaire Jeff Bezos is seeking to secure more government contracts for his space company, Blue Origin, in an effort to capitalize on the feud between US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.Bezos reportedly met the US president at least twice in June, while the space technology company’s CEO, Dave Limp, visited the White House to hold talks with Trump’s chief of…

On Friday, June 13th, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a historic military strike on Iran involving missiles and drones that were smuggled into the country before the massive attack on the Iranian nuclear and military facilities. Israel also took out several top officials in the Iranian government in targeted attacks. This attack then ignited several more attacks and counter-attacks between the two nations. It was not until the US military, using B-2 bombers took out the Fordow, Natanz, and Issfahan nuclear sites, that the Iranian officials agreed to a ceasefire. They had suffered enough. Now, less than 48 hours…

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 31: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary … More Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from the heads of the largest tech firms on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Getty Images Business monopolies don’t need to compete. Why should they compete when they’re already monopolies? It’s a question worth asking in consideration of the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta, one that accuses it of having acquired monopoly dominance of the social media market…

War creates a waking nightmare which any sensible person would want to avoid except in the direst necessity. And yet we are ruled by people who actively seek it out. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): War is the worst thing in the world. It is the single craziest behavior exhibited by humans. The most destructive. The most traumatizing. The least sustainable. The least conducive to human thriving. All the things we fear most become the norm in a land ravaged by war. Death. Pain. Suffering. Rape. Chaos. Uncertainty. Losing loved ones. Losing homes. Losing…

Actor Pedro Pascal, who is set to play Reed Richards in Disney’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot, called author J.K. Rowling bully who “makes me fucking sick” over her defense of women’s rights against radical transgender ideology. As Breitbart News reported in April, Pascal called J.K. Rowling a “heinous loser” after the acclaimed author celebrated a recent ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court maintaining that transgenders do not legally qualify as biological women. Speaking with Vanity Fair for a cover story, Pedro Pascal doubled-down on his language and called Rowling a bully who “makes me fucking sick.” “The one thing that I would say I…

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Monday announced that, as part of the FTC’s approval of a merger between two of the largest advertising companies, the advertising giants agreed not to collude or discriminate based on political or ideological viewpoints. The FTC noted that the two advertising companies were founding members of a cross-industry initiative called GARM through which there was collusion to blacklist center-right outlets such as Breitbart News, Fox News, and the Daily Wire. Ferguson announced that the FTC had extracted a major victory as part of the agency’s agreement for Omnicom and IPG to merge. The two…

It’s getting late early for John Cornyn. Yet another poll shows the four-term incumbent lagging well behind his hard-right challenger, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in next year’s primary. The poll, conducted on behalf of a Paxton-allied super PAC, shows the Texas attorney general with a commanding 19-point lead over the incumbent — 57 to 38 percent — in a head-to-head matchup of Texas Republican primary voters. It’s the latest data pointfor national Republicans who see Cornyn flailing with primary voters but worry about the general election prospects for Paxton, who has faced both indictment and impeachment. The race has…