Senate tees up more confirmations while House GOP holds retreat to talk Trump agenda
The Senate is expected to vote on more of Trump's Cabinet nominees this week, with a handful of his controversial Cabinet nominees set to answer questions during confirmation hearings. Tulsi Gabbard was nominated by President Trump to be Director of National Intelligence. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human […]
Gold prices retreat on strong dollar amid Trump tariff uncertainty – Investing.com
Investing.com–Gold prices fell in Asian trading on Monday, retreating from last week's sharp gains. This is because the US dollar strengthened after President Donald Trump's brief tariffs on Colombia. Market sentiment is cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's upcoming interest rate decision later this week. It fell 0.7% to $2,752.09 an ounce before expiring in […]
Disney’s Magic Kingdom honors 100-year-old WWII veteran during flag retreat ceremony
Surrounded by loved ones, retired U.S. Army Col. William “Bill” A. Connelly, 100, was honored at a flag evacuation ceremony Friday night at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Orlando. . Connelly stood tall and proud with the flag, which was raised from half-mast in honor of the late former President Jimmy Carter, before it […]
Republicans Cheer Facebook’s Retreat from Censorship
Conservatives praised Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for reining in the company's longstanding practices of censoring political speech. Facebook, which has faced pressure from the Biden administration to tackle censorship, plans to end its fact-checking program and replace it with a community notes approach. Deliver a more personalized approach to political content. We're also removing some […]
US Futures Signal a Rebound From Year-End Retreat: Markets Wrap – Yahoo Finance
(Bloomberg) – Tech stocks led gains as U.S. stock futures rose, showing Wall Street is recovering from a four-day slump that marks the end of 2024. Most Read Articles on Bloomberg The Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) rose 0.8%, and the S&P 500 (ES=F) rose 0.6%. European energy stocks supported a modest rise in the region's STOXX […]
Wokeness is in retreat, but Nasdaq’s ‘diversity rules’ show its awful stench will be hard to eliminate
Awakening is receding, but the stench will be difficult to remove. Consider the strange case of the laborious “Nasdaq diversity rule''. A stock market giant that forces all companies “listed” on the Nasdaq to elect boards that emphasize intersectionality, or racial, sexual, and gender diversity, rather than racial, sexual, and gender diversity. It is a […]
Democrats Perform Tactical Retreat on Trangenderism
Pro-transgender officials in President Joe Biden's administration are withdrawing draft regulations that threatened costly lawsuits against schools that protect girls' sports. The move would block President-elect Donald Trump's lawmakers from rewriting draft regulations to protect rather than penalize single-sex K-12 sports. The Department of Education's pro-trans regulations would force public schools to downplay heterosexuality by […]
Walmart, Canada, and the great DEI retreat: Are we finally waking up?
Is freedom moving backwards or moving forward? Just a few weeks ago, I would have said it was regressing. But something is changing, and America, though bruised and battered, is at the forefront of the pullback. What did we do over the last four years when everything went wrong for us, when we felt like […]
Actress dies after consuming amphibian’s venom at spiritual cleansing retreat
A Mexican actress died after ingesting poison from a poisonous Amazonian frog during a voluntary spiritual cleansing ritual. According to local reports, Marcela Alcazar Rodríguez, 33, ingested some of the poison as part of a spiritual cleansing procedure used by some indigenous peoples of South America to cleanse themselves of toxic substances. Rodriguez began vomiting […]
Syrian militants reach central Aleppo as government forces appear to retreat | Syria
Once exiled to the mountains of rural Syria, Islamic rebels now roam the streets of central Aleppo, posing for photos beneath the ancient citadel and vandalizing symbols of President Bashar al-Assad's rule. I'm doing it. The surprise attack, in which rebels seized territory across northwestern Syria, appears to have dramatically shifted the balance of power […]