Making sense of today’s confusing economic signals is difficult. It’s no surprise Larry Summers finds something for both sides of the fight over President Joe Biden’s policies.
Russia’s Putin told Biden he would ‘really like’ to meet
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Joe Biden he would “really like” to meet for more talks, according to a video clip released by Russian state TV on Sunday from the leaders’ virtual call on Tuesday.
Why the 2022 midterms look like the opposite of 2018
What a difference four years makes in politics. At this point in 2017, Democrats were about to pull off a stunning Senate win against a very flawed opponent in the deeply red state of Alabama. It was one of many indications that Democrats were on their…
This is the crisis of our generation, FEMA chief says
Powerful storms like the ones that tore through parts of the central United States this weekend are the “new normal” in an era of climate change, the top federal emergency management official said on Sunday.
Let the people vote. But which people?
While numerous US states are doing everything they can to make voting more difficult and shrink the number of people taking part in elections, New York City has gone the opposite direction and opened the polls to noncitizen legal immigrants.
Fact check: Deceptive attack ad against GOP Senate candidate Pat McCrory edits his quotes about Trump and rioters
A television attack ad from conservative Super PAC Club for Growth Action uses egregiously deceptive editing to build its case that Pat McCrory, a Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in North Carolina, is a “Trump-hater” and “liberal faker.”
Getting child tax credit to lowest-income parents proves challenging
When President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats temporarily expanded the child tax credit this spring, they repeatedly touted that it would help cut child poverty nearly in half.
DHS warns of critical flaw in widely used software
The Department of Homeland Security’s top cyber official on Saturday urged government and private-sector organizations to address a critical flaw in widely used software that hackers were actively using to try to breach networks.
‘More and more convergence’ with allies on costs to Russia if they invade Ukraine, says State Department official
Each day there has been “more and more convergence” between the US and European allies about the costs that would be inflicted on Russia if they invade Ukraine, a senior State Department official said in a briefing with reporters after Secretary of Sta…
Lawyer says Meadows received, but did nothing, with document that detailed ways to undermine the 2020 election, per New York Times
A lawyer for Mark Meadows says the former Trump White House chief of staff was the recipient of a PowerPoint document detailing ways to undermine the count of the 2020 election but did nothing with it, according to the New York Times.