Landmark Climate Bill Could Help Boost Struggling Nuclear Plants—Here’s Why

Topline Nuclear plants could see their bottom lines improve thanks to a new tax credit in the massive climate, health care and deficit reduction package passed by the Senate this weekend—a potential l...

Beijing’s Blockade Of Taiwan Is The Latest Sign Washington Needs To Streamline Its Defense Trade With Allies

China’s live-fire exercises around Taiwan in response to a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are being described as a de facto blockade, foreshadowing the strategy Beijing could one day use to force...

China Carries Out Biggest-Ever Military Drills Around Taiwan

Topline The Chinese military on Thursday carried out missile strikes as part of its biggest-ever military drills surrounding Taiwan, just a day after a U.S. delegation led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi visi...

China’s Retaliation to Pelosi’s Trip Keeps Chips Off the Menu for Now

China’s fresh blockade of food imports from Taiwan wasn’t enough to further destabilize markets nervous about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s historic visit to the island. Beijing’s four days of military...

China’s Problem Isn’t Nancy Pelosi —It’s Turning Japanese

A staff member counts yuan notes deposited by customers at a bank in Haian, East China’s Jiangsu Province, July 12, 2022. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Xi Jinping has a growing list o...

Pelosi Says U.S. Is Determined To ‘Preserve Democracy’ As She Meets Taiwanese President

Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday met Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and several representatives from the country’s parliament, as part of a high-profile visit that has angered China w...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says U.S. Commitment To Taiwan Is ‘Ironclad’

Nancy Pelosi, left, and Tsai Ing-wen wave to photographers at the president’s office on August 03, 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan. Handout/Getty Images U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Taiwan Pr...

China Mints New Billionaire Amid Military Tension

A security officer wearing a face mask walks in front of the Shanghai Stock Exchange building in … [+] Shanghai in 2020. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS China minted a new billionaire on Wednesday e...

Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan Is a Risk to More Than Just the Chip Industry

Asian stocks worked out early there is no good outcome from Nancy Pelosi’s current tour of the region. By landing in Taiwan Tuesday or Wednesday, the speaker of the House risks Chinese military retali...

U.S. And Chinese Stocks Plunge As Tensions Escalate Before Pelosi’s Visit To Taiwan

Topline Global stocks tanked ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned visit to the democratically governed island of Taiwan on Tuesday, a move which has led to rising tensions with China and that...

Washington Urges Calm Over Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit But Tensions Cause Asian Markets To Slide

Topline Chinese social media users reacted with anger while markets in the region slumped amid growing tensions ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s arrival in Taiwan, which is expected to take place...

Texas Militia Member Gets 87 Months In Prison For Jan 6. Riots—Longest Sentence So Far

Topline Guy Reffitt, a recruiter for the far-right Texas Three Percenters militia group who prosecutors say brought a semiautomatic pistol and zip ties to the January 6 Capitol attack, was sentenced t...

Crypto prices continue to tick upward as recession fears grow: the week in markets

Crypto prices continued to rally over the past week while the global macroeconomic environment was worsening. At the time of writing, bitcoin was trading at $23,739, down 3.1% over the past 24 hours, ...

Nancy Pelosi Heads To Asia—But Itinerary Is Silent On Possible Taiwan Stop

Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is leading a congressional delegation to Asia that will visit four different countries, her office confirmed Sunday morning, but her trip’s itinerary made...

Biden says he expects to speak with China’s Xi in 10 days

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with media on July 20, 2022, after disembarking Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — U.S. President Joe Bid...

Steve Bannon’s Contempt Of Congress Trial Will Begin Next Week, Judge Rules

Topline Former White House strategist Steve Bannon must face trial next week for contempt charges over his refusal to testify to the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capi...

Pelosi unveils abortion rights proposals after ruling

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) finishes a news conference after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, which guaranteed a woman’s right to an abortion, in the Capitol Visitors ...

Documentary Catches Pence’s Reaction To Call For Trump’s Removal: ‘Excellent’

Topline A documentary film crew captured former Vice President Mike Pence’s somewhat opaque reaction (“Excellent,” he says, but with restraint) to seeing a draft Congressional resolution calling for h...

CEOs of GM, Ford and others urge Congress to lift EV tax credit cap

The all-electric Chevrolet Silverado at the New York Auto Show, April 13, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC DETROIT – The CEOs of General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler parent Stellantis and Toyota Motor North Am...

Pelosi Joins Biden, Kerry, Giuliani And Other Catholics Threatened With No Communion Because Of Abortion Support

Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), banned from receiving communion by her local diocese, became the latest Catholic U.S. politician targeted for their views supporting abortion rights. Spe...

Nancy Pelosi Leads Congressional Delegation In Secret Visit To Kyiv, Meets Zelensky

Topline A U.S. Congressional Delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Sunday in another high profile show of support by Washin...

Uninsured face testing, hospital bills after pandemic aid runs out

Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the coronavirus disease (...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has Covid, stood next to Biden

US President Joe Biden signs H.R. 3076, the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 6, 2022. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Ge...

Pelosi Calls Ginni Thomas A ‘Proud Contributor To A Coup’ — Pushes For Supreme Court Code Of Ethics

Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stopped short Thursday of joining other Democratic House members who have called for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, but she said his wif...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi To Run For Reelection To Congress

Topline Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she plans to run for reelection—but she didn’t indicate whether she would vie for another term as speaker after previously promis...