Topline If Russian troops enter Ukraine, the United States will “bring an end to” Nord Stream 2, the $11 billion underwater natural gas pipeline connecting Russia to Germany, President Joe Biden annou...
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How the Biden administration misread the inflation threat
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (L) and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell (R) testify during a hearing before Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill Novemb...
Inventor Of 3D-Printed Guns Scoffs As Biden Vows Crackdown
Cody Wilson at a firing range near Austin, Texas disploying his “zero percenter” firearm. Forbes While President Joe Biden vowed to stem the growing market in “ghost guns,” the man who inv...
U.S. Oil Price Tops $90 For First Time Since 2014
Crude Oil, Fossil Fuel, Price, Growth, Graph getty We’ve had two major boom/bust cycles since then, but 2014 was the last time the price for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate topped the $90 mark. Th...
How Canceling $15 Billion In Student Loans Impacts The Racial Wealth Gap
Portrait of a young African American male student wearing a protective face mask and his headphones … [+] around his neck, walking trough the city in a yellow shirt with a backpack, a book and a...
Airlines ask Biden to drop Covid testing for vaccinated travelers before U.S.-bound flights
A traveler wears a face mask while checking their phone on the arrivals level outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid increased Covid-19 t...
Biden urges against USPS plan to spend billions on gas vehicles
A postal worker loads a delivery truck on October 01, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images The Biden administration on Wednesday attempted to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s plan...
Biden helping states plug orphan oil gas wells, cut methane emissions
Oil pumpjacks operate in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Biden administration on Monday announced it will send $1.15 billion to st...
Biden’s Bitcoin Regulations And The Threat Of Higher Taxes For Crypto
What will President Biden say about Bitcoin and digital assets? It’s hard to find his comments on … [+] it. But next month, the market will know exactly what he thinks about it. KMR Images...
‘A Matter Of National Security’—Reports Reveal Joe Biden’s Surprise Bitcoin, Ethereum And NFT Plan After Extreme Price Swings
The Biden administration is rushing to get a handle on the fast-growing cryptocurrency market after extreme volatility has hit the price of bitcoin, ethereum and collectible non-fungible tokens (NFTs)...
Biden Will Send U.S. Troops To Eastern Europe Soon—But ‘Not A Lot’
Topline President Joe Biden said Friday the United States will send troops to NATO countries in Eastern Europe “in the near term,” after Russia’s deployment of over 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian b...
Biden Vows To Fix Aging Bridges At Site Of Pittsburgh Bridge That Collapsed Hours Before His Arrival
Topline President Joe Biden on Friday vowed to repair aging bridges around the country during an unscheduled visit to the site of a two-lane bridge in Pittsburgh that collapsed hours before he arrived...
Biden Warns Of Imminent Ukraine Invasion
Ukrainian servicemen taking part in the armed conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the … [+] country’s Donetsk region march in Kiev on November 15, 2018 prior to the handover ceremon...
Judge Tosses Out Offshore Oil Leases Signed By Biden Administration
Topline A federal judge rescinded oil and gas leases for a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, arguing the government failed to consider their impact on climate change before they were aucti...
Joe Biden To Push For Crypto Regulations as a Matter of National Security
Joe Biden’s administration wants to clarify once and for all the regulatory landscape surrounding the crypto sphere —taking the opportunity to exert greater control over the industry. Apparently, with...
U.S. Takes On ‘Crisis’ Of Rising Crash Deaths With Bold, Nationwide Strategy
Road fatalities spiked in the first half of 2021, the largest six-month increase in traffic crash … [+] deaths ever recorded in the federal reporting system’s history. Corbis via Getty Images Th...
Biden Administration Sees Crypto Regulation as a Matter of National Security
Key Takeaways The Biden administration is set to order government agencies to propose crypto regulations within weeks. The order is intended to develop a regulatory framework as a matter of national s...
President Biden To Appear In Betty White Tribute Special On NBC
Topline President Joe Biden will join a lineup of celebrities featured in an upcoming special dedicated to the life of actress Betty White, who died last month just weeks before her 100th birthday, NB...
Tucked Inside Biden Infrastructure Bill: Unconstitutional Crypto Surveillance
Before U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law in November, many groups spoke out against a provision that broadens the tax code’s definition of “broker.” B...
Biden Administration Preparing To Release Government-Wide Strategy for Dealing With Digital Assets: Report
The Biden administration is reportedly expected to take sweeping action on the digital asset space in the weeks ahead. According to a new Bloomberg report, a number of unnamed insiders reveal that sen...
Report: Biden administration may soon unveil an executive order on cryptocurrencies
The Biden administration is reportedly working on an executive order emphasizing potential economic, regulatory, and national security challenges that cryptocurrencies might pose in the future. A comp...
Reporters Used To Crucify Trump For Insulting Journalists, But Biden Keeps Doing The Same Thing
US President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with members of his administration on efforts to lower … [+] prices for working families at the East room of the White House, in Washington, DC on Janua...
Biden Administration Planning Executive Order on Crypto
The Biden administration plans to release a comprehensive strategy on cryptocurrencies, consolidating the approach of several government agencies. According to Bloomberg sources, several senior admini...
Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Fed Worker Mandate With Anti-Vaxxer Tropes
On January 21, federal district judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown blocked the Biden mandate requiring federal employees to get COVID vaccinations. This got national attention. Brown’s ruling was pegged a...
NIMBYism Is Global, And That’s A Problem For The Energy Transition
TOPSHOT – Demonstrators block a highway to protest against Anglo-Australian company Rio Tinto’s … [+] plan to mine lithium in the country, in Belgrade on December 4, 2021. – Th...
Biden, Putin, Xi, Are They Crashing the World? – Trustnodes
It must be the first time in history that so much of the world has been ruled for so long by such very old men who by now must have completely lost touch with the needs, desires, and ambitions of thei...
How a Russian invasion of Ukraine could trigger market shock waves
The threat of a devastating European ground war hasn’t done much to rattle financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia attack Ukr...
Opinion: Biden borrows too much, while America’s economy hollows out
It’s easy to be distracted by Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and the Federal Reserve’s new war on inflation but as the economy recovers from the delta and omicron variants, difficult post-pandemic c...