When President Joe Biden was asked by the press why many Americans are concerned about the economy, he responded by claiming reporters are “not the happiest people.” Biden spoke to White House reporters following remarks on the latest jobs report Friday afternoon. He cited the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics […]

Prisoners in a Lebanese jail on Friday set their cells on fire, leaving three inmates dead and 16 others injured, according to a police statement. Police said the fire started in several cells on the second floor in the main prison in the eastern city of Zahle after an apparent […]

Canada welcomed on Thursday a trade dispute panel ruling which said the U.S. should review parts of its policy on softwood lumber which includes duties on most such products exported from its northern neighbor. The duties are the legacy of a decades-long trade dispute over the structure of Canada’s timber […]

President Biden appeared to stumble Friday when asked by a reporter about his administration’s resumption of border wall construction in Texas, telling a reporter that “we tried to ask the Congress to consider changing the law,” one day after saying that he had merely tried to “redirect” money for the […]

The U.S. has detected its first case of avian flu on a commercial poultry farm since April, in a flock of 47,300 turkeys in Jerauld County, South Dakota, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. Infected flocks are culled to prevent the spread of the virus, potentially tightening the poultry […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks the future generations of America may be too sheltered.  The former California governor candidly spoke out, warning that if young people are over-pampered, this nation may be “creating a generation of wimps and weak people.” “You can only strengthen your character and become a really strong person […]

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers recently took a dig at Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce over his recent partnership with Pfizer in prompting the COVID-19 vaccine, but on Friday the two-time Super Bowl champion responded with his own dig.  Kelce, 33, was asked by reporters during a […]

The White House mocked “dysfunction-engulfed House Republicans” Friday as they work to select a new speaker of the House, while praising President Biden for focusing on the economy and the American people. The House of Representatives, in a historic first on Tuesday, voted to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as […]

A former Army sergeant has been indicted for attempting to share national security information with China.  Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 29, was arrested Friday in San Francisco after returning from Hong Kong, where he allegedly tried to give Chinese intelligence classified information using a device he kept after he left the […]

It gives me no pleasure to identify the essential problem at the heart of Pope Francis‘s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum: it condemns the economic progress produced by the Industrial Revolution from the mid-19th century to the present. That progress has made life better for the very people the Holy […]