Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday issued a new directive raising the maximum rate that lawmakers can pay House staff to $212,100 annually — $38,000 more than what members of Congress make.  The move comes after Pelosi already issued a directive ...

The new year will place new hurdles in the path of North Carolina’s current and future governors before states of emergency they issue can extend into months or even years, as happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. A provision in the ...

Democratic Rep. GK Butterfield of North Carolina has resigned early from Congress, his office announced. Butterfield’s resignation comes just ahead of Tuesday, when his term would come to an end. The representative previously announced his intention to retire from public ...

Washington, DC – The repeal of the military’s vaccine mandate put this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, in the spotlight. The repeal, however, is just one of the many provisions attached to the $847 billion bill that outlines military ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s wife Christine Grady serves in a leadership role overseeing bioethics research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a position that doesn’t give her oversight of her husband’s work. Earlier this week, Twitter CEO Elon Musk suggested ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Boston arrested a Brazilian criminal fugitive Wednesday in Worcester, Massachusetts, who was convicted in Brazil and sought by police there, according to a report. Jaconias Rosa Pereira, 50, a citizen of Brazil, ...

The market is a relentlessly evolving ecosystem that bubbles up and retreats in different areas of the market at any given time. It is so important to be aware of when the trend changes under the surface. I have been ...

I have been quiet on the video and blog side of things over the past weeks. Still, just before you pop the champagne for a grand New Year’s eve celebration, I want to take the opportunity to look back at ...

Republicans who won seats in districts taken by President Biden in 2020 backed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for speaker, with one vowing the top House Republican would be in charge whether it takes ‘one ballot or 100 ballots ...

Deportations of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in FY 2022 rose slightly compared to the prior fiscal year, although still significantly lower than during the Trump administration, as ICE diverted significant resources to assist overwhelmed Border Patrol ...