Energy

The price of gasoline has reached record highs in California. The state become in American history to charge averages of over $5 a gallon for the essential fuel with Los Angeles and San Francisco eclipsing that mark earlier this week.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a tweet on Friday declaring that oil and gas output should be ramped up, even though he acknowledged that such a move would have a negative impact on Tesla, which sells electric vehicles.

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to give an answer as to whether the U.S. would ban Russian oil in the daily press briefing Thursday.

Hungary’s prime minister said on Friday that he doesn’t believe Western countries can depend on NATO for national security.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s assertion that Russia had shelled a nuclear plant and caused a radiation leak that could affect a large number of countries was deemed false and fact-checked by the White House.

Russian MoD spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Ukrainian "saboteurs" started the fire.

President Joe Biden and his administration said Americans should reduce their consumption of oil and gas in order to keep prices down and ultimately punish Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Hunter Biden's close friend and former business partner Devon Archer was sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a $60 million fraud scheme against a Native American tribe.

BBB slogan Biden campaigned on missing from State of the Union speech.