Topline The Biden Administration approved a multibillion-dollar oil drilling project in Alaska on Monday, known as the Willow project, a move that will appease Alaskan lawmakers while angering climate...
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Controversial Alaska Oil Drilling Project Could Be Approved Monday—Here’s What You Need To Know
Topline The Biden Administration is reportedly set to approve a multibillion-dollar oil drilling project in Alaska on Monday, known as the Willow project, a move that would appease Alaskan lawmakers w...
How TikTok Users Are Mobilizing Against Proposed Alaska Oil Drilling Project
Topline Social media users have rallied against a proposed oil drilling project in northern Alaska over the past week, using the #stopwillow TikTok hashtag to educate viewers on the project’s potentia...
Walgreens Sparks Calls For Boycotts After Refusing To Dispense Abortion Pills In Some States
Topline Walgreens is coming under an increasing amount of scrutiny after it confirmed last week it won’t sell the abortion drug mifepristone in states where Republican attorneys general told the pharm...
Secretary Of State Blinken Unexpectedly Meets With Russian Counterpart At G20 Meeting
Topline Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had an unscheduled meeting with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in New Delhi, multiple outlets report, as tensions esca...
Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Wary Of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Topline The Supreme Court’s conservative justices questioned the legality of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program Tuesday, as the court heard arguments in two cases from plaintiffs s...
Student Debt Forgiveness At Supreme Court Tuesday—Here’s What You Need To Know
Topline The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in two cases that will determine whether President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness can go back into effect, with millions of Americans’ ...
Ukraine Will Win War This Year If Allies Remain United ‘Like A Fist’
Topline Speaking to reporters on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed his forces would win the war this year but only if western allies remain...
Texas Sues Biden To Undo Congressional Spending Bill
Topline Texas is trying to invalidate the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill Congress passed in December, as state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Biden ...
The Biden Administration Should Learn Japan’s Painful Lessons On Hydrogen
Los Angeles, CA – March 17: A view of the backside of Unit 5, which uses the waste heat from another … [+] turbine generator, to create steam and generate additional electricity, and the H...
Americans’ Satisfaction With U.S. Immigration At Lowest Point In Decade
Topline Americans are less satisfied with the level of immigration into the U.S. than they have been at any point since 2012, according to a new Gallup poll, as the crisis at the border that’s caused ...
Why To Invest Regardless Of The Supreme Court Decision On Student Loan Debt Relief
Getty Images Key takeaways The Biden Administration’s student loan debt relief plan will debut before the Supreme Court on February 28 Two lawsuits against the plan argue that the Biden Administration...
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh Plans To Leave Biden Administration For NHL Union Job
Topline Marty Walsh will leave his post as labor secretary for a job running the National Hockey League Players’ Association, sources told multiple news outlets Tuesday, marking the first cabinet offi...
If Chevron Can Sell Shares, Why Can’t They Buy Them Back?
A Chevron Global Technology Services Company logo is seen at an administrative office in Caracas on … [+] November 29, 2022. – The US government’s authorisation of energy giant Chevr...
Biden Visits Southern Border As Texas Gov. Abbott Blasts President For Arriving ‘Two Years Too Late’
Topline President Joe Biden arrived in El Paso on Sunday for his first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) greeted the president with a letter attacking his immigration pol...
Abbott And Mayorkas Spar Over Immigration As Biden Heads To Border For First Official Visit
Topline Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sparred with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) over the Biden Administration’s handling of the border crisis, with both sides blaming each other for a l...
Police Identify Suspect In Utah Family Murder-Suicide That Left 8 Dead
Topline The suspect in the shooting deaths of seven family members was identified as 42-year-old Michael Haight, who later killed himself, according to city officials, after their bodies were found We...
Biden Effort To Cap Gas Flaring Hangs On 15 Little Words
A gas flare burns at an oil well site outside Williston, North Dakota. Gas flares are created when … [+] excess flammable gases are released by pressure release valves during the drilling for oi...
Biden Asks Supreme Court To Intervene In Second Lawsuit — Here’s When A Decision Could Come
Topline The Biden Administration asked the Supreme Court Friday to take up a second case challenging the White House’s student loan forgiveness policy—a move that won’t result in student debt relief b...
Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments On Biden’s Stalled Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Topline The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case challenging President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, the court announced Thursday, which means a final decision on the program’...
Appeals Court Rules Against Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan—Likely Sending Second Case To Supreme Court
Topline A federal appeals court ruled against the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness plan Wednesday, siding with a lower court that struck down the policy, ensuring the program will remai...
Yellen calls for ‘more effective oversight’ of crypto markets
The collapse of crypto exchange FTX is proof digital asset markets need more effective oversight, according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. “Further interconnections of the traditiona...
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Kept On Hold As Court Sides With GOP States
Topline The Biden Administration will remain blocked from dispersing student loan forgiveness to millions of borrowers, at least while litigation against its policy plays out, as a federal appeals cou...
White House is monitoring FTX implosion, calls for more crypto regulation
The Biden administration has renewed its call for more rules around cryptocurrencies in the U.S. “The administration has consistently maintained that without proper oversight cryptocurrencies ri...
Biden’s “Windfall Profits Tax” On Oil Companies Would Give Voters What They Want—And That’s The Problem
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 31: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on oil company profits in the … [+] Roosevelt Room of the White House on October 31, 2022 in Washington, DC. Biden is...
What Next For The Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
In an aerial view, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve storage at the Bryan Mound site is seen on … [+] October 19, 2022 in Freeport, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Getty Images The Adm...
Biden Administration Wants To Make It Easier To Seize Crypto Without Criminal Charges
Buried deep in a 61-page recent report by the U.S. Attorney General, the Biden Administration called for a dramatic expansion in the federal government’s ability to seize and keep cryptocurrency. If e...
Group Asks Supreme Court To Halt Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Topline A Wisconsin taxpayers association asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to block the White House’s student loan forgiveness program before funds start rolling out to borrowers later this month, on...
Gas Prices Fall For 7 Days As White House Considers Selling Emergency Reserves To Avoid Dreaded Return To $4 Mark
Topline The Biden Administration is planning to tap into the country’s emergency petroleum reserves in an attempt to cut gas costs ahead of the midterm elections next month, sources told Reuters, even...
Supreme Court Won’t Consider Rights For U.S. Territory Citizens—Even After Neil Gorsuch Slammed Its Racist Precedents
Topline The Supreme Court will not consider whether citizens of U.S. territories like American Samoa will have full constitutional rights, as the court declined Monday to hear a case that could have o...
Here Are His New Measures To Protect Abortion Rights
Topline President Joe Biden acknowledged the wide-ranging effects of the Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade in a speech Tuesday, approximately 100 days after the conservative-leaning court let ...
U.S. Gearing Up For Offshore Storage By Establishing Rules Of The Game
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar 378913 01: Pennzenergy Company Oil Exploration Drilling Rig In The Gulf Of Mexico During Sunset. … [+] (Photo By Getty Images) Getty Images We are still in the ...