From $2.4 million for an Arctic dinosaur film to $250 million for border walls in the Middle East and North Africa, Kentucky senator uses Festivus list to call attention to wasteful spending.
Another 205,000 American workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, matching the prior week’s jobless claims number and roughly in line with pre-pandemic levels, suggesting that the recent rise in COVID-19 infections was not driving a fresh wave of layoffs.
Newsweek review of financial filings in Congress has found that lawmakers who are driving legislation to protect Uyghurs in China are also invested—either directly in the form of stocks, or indirectly via mutual funds—in major companies tied to the oppression in Xinjiang.
States with Republican governors and legislatures are leading Americans back to work quicker than those led by Democrats, according to an analysis of the state-by-state unemployment data from the Department of Labor.