Dollar drops ahead of crucial payrolls data – Yahoo Finance
Written by Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar headed for its steepest weekly decline this year on Friday, as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell expressed confidence in cutting interest rates in the coming months, while expectations of a rate hike in Japan weakened. The yen rose as a result. Traders were on edge, with […]
Biden Focuses On Issues Americans Care Least About In Biggest Speech Of Presidency
President Joe Biden has set aside immigration, inflation and crime to lead his 2024 State of the Union address with three issues that barely register in the polls of Americans. Biden spent the first 10 minutes of his 2024 State of the Union address discussing the Ukraine war and the January 6 Capitol riot before […]
‘I’ve been around a while’
President Biden sought to dispel concerns about his age during Thursday’s State of the Union address, speaking loudly and fairly quickly during a lengthy speech that included ad hoc exchanges with Republicans. “Throughout my career, I’ve been told I’m too young,” the 81-year-old Biden said near the end of his 68-minute speech. “I was told […]
Ohio GOP Sen candidate blasted for alleged scheduled meeting with anti-Trump group
A Republican Senate candidate in Ohio was reportedly scheduled to meet with No Labels, a third-party political group known for promoting liberal positions on issues such as gun control and abortion. He has come under intense criticism from his political opponents during the primary election. The controversy began earlier this week when NBC News reporter […]
Spokane School District voted to bar U.S. border patrol agents from schools
A school district in Spokane, Washington, unanimously passed a resolution banning U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering the school, citing the potential trauma for immigrant students. The move to ban U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from classrooms comes as members of Latinos En Spokane, an advocacy group supporting the Latino community, say it […]
Biden Delivers State of the Union Address
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on March 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. This will be Biden’s last State of the Union address before the general election next November. Mr. Biden was joined by Vice […]
Joe Biden Claims He Created a ‘Record’ 15 Million New Jobs
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in Thursday’s State of the Union address that he has created a “record” 15 million new jobs. Verdict: Misleading. There are only 5 million more jobs than there were before the coronavirus pandemic economy. biden claimed: Turn setbacks into comebacks. That’s America! I inherited an economy that was on the […]
WATCH Joy(less) Reid accuses Republicans of racebased voting
MSNBC’s left-wing panel takes a somewhat harsh view of the Super Tuesday results, in which Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley in all but one of the primaries. Their anger is not surprising. But Joy Reid took her criticism one step too far by ranting about Republicans voting solely based on race. “[Republicans] Don’t vote based […]
Speaker Johnson: GOP hecklers responding to ‘overly partisan’ State of the Union
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Republican lawmakers who heckled President Biden during Thursday night’s State of the Union address were responding to an “overly partisan speech.” Several Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), yelled at Biden during remarks on the House floor, but the shouting was heard by Biden and the president about […]
Biden skirts around Trump’s name in State of the Union, mentions ‘my predecessor’ 13 times
President Biden was sharply critical of Donald Trump during his State of the Union address Thursday night, mentioning his predecessor more than a dozen times but declining to mention him by name. Biden, who repeatedly used the phrase “my predecessor” when referring to Trump, began his speech by arguing that the former president incited the […]