Tag: Policies & Impacts

US Decides to Send ‘Cluster Bombs’ to Ukraine—With Conditions

The United States will send so-called “cluster munitions” to Ukraine in its ongoing fight to drive Russian forces out of the country. Speaking from the White House on July 7, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said President Joe Biden deferred the decision long as possible. After consulting international leaders and reviewing the situation on the…


CDC Has ‘Lost All Credibility,’ Lawmaker Says as Agency Pushes ‘Chestfeeding’

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance for transgender individuals seeking to “chestfeed” their infants has some lawmakers concerned that the agency is prioritizing politics before patients’ health. Under “Health Equity Considerations” on the CDC website, the agency asserts, “Transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the chest (chestfeed).”…


How Xi Jinping Weaponizes Trade as an ‘Aggressive Lever’ Against Any Country That Crosses Him: Anders Corr

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in China for a four-day visit. Her trip is taking place as several major issues are continuing to unfold: Firstly, the CCP is forming a global bloc against the United States; secondly, it’s pushing other nations to drop the U.S. dollar; and thirdly, it recently put restrictions on key…


Scientists Investigating ‘Long Vax’ Symptoms Linked to COVID Shot

Scientists at Yale and Harvard say they are starting to pay attention to conditions that may be caused by COVID-19 vaccines, which has been dubbed “long vax” in media outlets this week. “You see one or two patients, and you wonder if it’s a coincidence,” Dr. Anne Louise Oaklander, a neurologist and researcher with Harvard…


Supreme Court Ethics Reform Bill Moving Forward, Top Senate Democrat Says

The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote soon on Supreme Court ethics reform legislation, its chairman announced on July 6. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a press release: “The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards. That’s why, as I previously announced, the Senate Judiciary Committee will mark up…


University Reprimands Associate Professor Who Failed Student for Using Term ‘Biological Women’–Then Rescinds It

Olivia Krolczyk, a student at the University of Cincinnati, received a zero-percent grade because of her use of the term “biological women.” After she took to social media with her story—racking up more than 14,000 comments in the process—the university issued a reprimand to the associate professor who failed Ms. Krolczyk on her project proposal. The…


Supreme Court to Hear Veteran’s Claim He Was Unfairly Denied Education Benefits

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case that could make 1.7 million post-9/11 veterans eligible for additional education benefits potentially worth billions of dollars. The case is about whether a veteran who qualifies for education benefits under multiple GI Bill programs is required to use up or abandon the benefits of one…


US Utilities Lobby Congress to Keep Gas Stoves Legal

American gas utilities are lobbying support for bills to keep gas stoves operational, as the Biden administration recommends their elimination for climate change purposes. Natural gas companies are gathering their political allies in Congress to ward off any attempts that gas stove use be curtailed, according to federal records. Gas utility companies fear that gas…


‘Wide Loophole’ in SCOTUS Ruling Leaves Opening for Race Preference Admissions: Heather Mac Donald

Although the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled it is unconstitutional to consider race as a determining factor in college admissions, they still left a path for colleges to accomplish their racial balancing goals, according to author and social commentator Heather Mac Donald. “I’m too familiar with colleges to believe that this is going to be…


Americans’ Excess Savings From The Pandemic Are Now Depleted, Say Federal Reserve Economists

A team of Federal Reserve economists found that the cash surplus accumulated by American households over the past few years since the start of the pandemic has now largely evaporated. The expenditure of household excess savings by U.S. consumers partially came from government pandemic stimulus checks, which caused the spur in economic growth over the…