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US President Joe Biden will apparently allow new leasing of federal lands for oil and natural-gas exploration, though with new restrictions and higher fees on producers, rather than fulfill a campaign promise to halt drilling.

At least 600 Google employees signed a manifesto opposing the company's Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

Despite harsh criticism of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handling of the coronavirus by Democrats, including President Joe Biden, Florida reported the lowest new COVID-19 case rate in the nation this week.

Treasury yields slide as investors shed riskier assets and pile into havens.

Five Senate Democrats tell Biden they won't back Lenin scholarship winner Saule Omarova

The Biden administration’s failure to tackle high and rising inflation pushed consumer sentiment this month to its lowest level in a decade.

The U.S. Commerce Department has added a dozen Chinese companies to a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns and some of the firms’ involvement in aiding the Chinese military’s quantum computing efforts.

Initial claims for jobless benefits fell last week to 199,000

If a number of politicians who are hostile to the Second Amendment get their way, American banks will essentially begin spying on American citizens who buy guns and/or ammunition. And if those citizens are buying what the politicians consider to be too much ammunition or too many firearms, those very citizens could be labeled potential domestic terrorists.

Seventy-seven percent of Americans believe inflation is impacting their holiday season, according to Tuesday’s Yahoo News/YouGov poll.