Dave Boyer

Stocks nosedive on recession fears, wiping out gains after Fed’s move

Stocks plunged Thursday amid lingering concerns of a recession, wiping out the big gains of a day earlier that followed the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates to curb inflation.

May 5, 2022

Biden says abortion, personal freedoms can’t be decided by the ‘whims’ of local communities

President Biden said Tuesday he doesn't want a conservative Supreme Court majority to result in personal freedoms being decided by "the whims of the public" in local communities.

May 3, 2022

Democrats say leaked Supreme Court ruling on abortion will fire up party base for midterms

Congressional Democrats said Tuesday that the leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide will energize their voters in November, predicting a seismic shift in a midterm campaign that had them playing defense amid record-high inflation and accusations of weak leadership from President Biden.

May 3, 2022

Google searches for ‘U-Haul’ spike after report that Supreme Court will overturn Roe

Online searches for U-Haul services spiked after a report that the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on the right to an abortion, according to an online gambling site.

May 3, 2022

Roe v. Wade leak called an effort to intimidate Supreme Court justices

The leaking of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion prompted outrage Monday night including accusations by Republican senators of a liberal-left effort to intimidate the justices into changing their ruling.

May 2, 2022

Report: Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court will overturn outright the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion in the coming weeks, according to a Politico report.

May 2, 2022

Oz performed surgeries at Chinese military hospital in the early ‘90s

Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, who has built his Republican primary campaign on a "tough on China" approach, once performed surgeries at a Chinese military hospital in the 1990s.

May 2, 2022

U.S. economy retracts in the first quarter; Biden blames ‘technical factors’

The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter amid record-high inflation, a sharp reversal that President Biden blamed on "technical factors" as he tried to tamp down concerns of a recession in the midterm election year.

April 28, 2022

White House backs new Homeland Security ‘misinformation’ board

The White House expressed support Thursday for a new Homeland Security board to address "misinformation" online, although press secretary Jen Psaki said she isn't familiar with the woman chosen to lead the effort.

April 28, 2022

Biden hosts small business owners, says growth trend will continue

President Biden met with small business owners Thursday to highlight the record growth of mom-and-pop establishments last year, but he avoided discussion in front of TV cameras of the high inflation that is hampering businesses small and big nationwide.

April 28, 2022

Biden says he’s not worried about recession as economy shrinks in first quarter

President Biden, who was wrong last summer when he predicted high inflation would be "temporary," said Thursday he doesn't foresee a recession despite the news that the U.S. economy registered negative growth in the first quarter of 2022.

April 28, 2022

U.S. economy shrank 1.4% in first quarter amid inflation, shortages

The economy slumped in the first quarter of this year for the first time since the pandemic began, shrinking at a 1.4% annual rate amid rising interest rates, soaring gas prices, inventory shortages and record high inflation.

April 28, 2022

Joe Biden to travel to South Korea, Japan next month

President Biden will make his first trip to Asia as president when he travels to South Korea and Japan from May 20-24, the White House announced Wednesday night.

April 27, 2022

Ex-Marine Trevor Reed released from Russian custody

President Biden said Wednesday that Trevor Reed, a former Marine, has been released from Russian custody and is being returned to his family as part of a prisoner exchange.

April 27, 2022

Biden’s approval slumps coast-to-coast as concerns rise about performance, fitness

President Biden has negative approval ratings in 40 states including key midterm battlegrounds, according to an analysis, losing ground with Democrats, young voters and independents, and looking as befuddled as ever.

April 26, 2022

Vice President Harris tests positive for COVID, not showing symptoms

Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday but has shown no symptoms, her office said.

April 26, 2022

WH expands access to COVID-19 pill, warns options will wane if Congress blocks virus money

White House COVID-19 Coordinator Ashish Jha said Tuesday the administration will make an all-out push to save lives with Pfizer's effective treatment for COVID-19 by nearly doubling the number of pharmacies that stock the pills and setting up federally supported "test-to-treat" sites offering the drug to people who test positive.

April 26, 2022

Biden confuses COVID border policy with the appeal of CDC mask mandate ruling

President Biden on Thursday confused his plans to lift a pandemic border policy with his administration's appeal of a court ruling that halts mask-wearing on airplanes and other public transportation.

April 21, 2022

Biden’s first national drug strategy relies on antidotes, border enforcement

President Biden's first drug control strategy promotes the greater use of the opioid antidote Naloxone, syringe giveaways and a promise to step up border enforcement to reduce drug smuggling, administration officials said.

April 21, 2022

Plane carrying Army parachutists for baseball game prompts evacuation of U.S. Capitol

Confusion about a plane dropping Army parachutists over Nationals Park baseball stadium in Washington prompted U.S. Capitol Police to order an evacuation of the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday evening.

April 20, 2022