Federal debt is nearing “unsustainable” levels, but low interest rates have created a window of opportunity for policy-makers to rein it in, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday, delivering a mixed outlook for the government’s long-term outlook. Federal spending, currently 21% of gross domestic product, will rise to 31% by 2050, with most of that…
A group of leading Democrats on Capitol Hill have subpoenaed four top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after they allegedly resisted calls to appear for depositions related to the firing of former department Inspector General Steve Linick. New York Reps. Eliot Engel, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Carolyn Maloney, chair…
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wa., organized a letter signed by 44 of 45 Senate Democrats on Friday, urging the White House to withdraw changes to hospital reporting requirements that sidestep the CDC. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wa., organized a letter signed by 44 of 45 Senate Democrats…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…