Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday warned Congress that if lawmakers fail to reach an agreement to raise or extend the debt ceiling, her department must take “extraordinary measures” on August 2 to prevent the US government from defaulting. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, Yellen warned lawmakers that in late July…

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) didn’t just fight back against Tucker Carlson’s lies. He released a text exchange and suggested that the host was “losing his mind.” Rep. Swalwell tweeted: After years of lying about me and my family, @TuckerCarlson is losing his mind that I won’t return his calls. Sorry, Tucker, I’m just not that…

Royal Caribbean’s Odyssey of The Seas arrives at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on June 10, 2021. Joe Raedle | Getty Images A federal appeals court on Friday sided with Florida in challenging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over federal cruise ship regulations that the state said were too burdensome and cost…

Jacob Chansley, the man nicknamed the “QAnon Shaman” after being photographed in the Capitol with a horned headdress, shirtless and heavily tattooed, is negotiating a deal after officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) visited him Have been diagnosed with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. Defense attorney Albert Watkins said officials confirmed…

A view of the entrance of the ice-cream shop inside the Ben & Jerry’s factory in Be’er Tuvia in southern Israel, on July 21, 2021. Emmanuel Dunand | AFP | Getty Images The fight between Israel and Palestinians is spilling over into 30 U.S. states with laws on their books preventing pension funds from investing…

Comcast helps Fox News kill Americans with anti-vaccination propaganda by refusing to air a new ad for The Lincoln Project. Here is the ad of the Lincoln project: “Rupert Murdoch’s network has become the leading voice against COVID-19 vaccination in the United States,” said Lincoln Project Co-founder Rick Wilson in a statement to PoliticusUSA. “At…

Workers during the production process of pipes at the Nord Stream 2 facility at Mukran on Ruegen Islandon in Sassnitz, Germany. Carsten Koall | Getty Images WASHINGTON – The United States and Germany reached an agreement to allow completion of the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a thorny, long-standing point of contention between the…

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) spoke to reporters after McCarthy pulled the GOP members of the 1/6 Committee and suggested McCarthy is a danger to democracy. Video of Rep. Cheney: Rep. Liz Cheney basically calls Kevin McCarthy unfit for office, “I think that any person who would be third in line to the presidency must demonstrate…

The arrest on Tuesday of a key Trump ally accused of illegally lobbying the United Arab Emirates shows just how much the oil-rich Middle Eastern country ingratiated itself with the United States during the Trump administration. Between arms deals and diplomatic deals, the UAE, a relatively small spit of land between Saudi Arabia and the…

The Chairman of Trump’s 2017 Inaugural Fund has been arrested for illegal foreign lobbying. Video: The Chairman of the Trump Inaugural, Thomas Barrack, has been arrested for illegal foreign lobbying while he was advising Trump on Middle East policy. pic.twitter.com/toUSfRcUgQ — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) July 20, 2021 NBC’s Pete Williams reported: This is about…