An analysis of global energy markets indicates that the U.S.-led war in Iran has generated substantial financial gains for the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, with the top 100 oil and gas producers collectively earning an estimated $30 million per hour in windfall profits as petroleum prices surged following the outbreak of hostilities.
In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far the minimum wage is from economic security for workers and their families. Click for the complete article
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appears on Fox Business for an interview with host Maria Bartiromo on April 10, 2026.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during an event on February 5, 2026.
During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance promised that mass deportations and a crackdown on immigration would open up jobs for unemployed U.S. citizens. The theory was simple: remove immigrant workers, and native-born U.S. citizens would fill those open positions. Well, the results are in, and the opposite is happening.
Several attacks involving OpenAI’s chatbot—including Tumbler Ridge and FSU—raise urgent questions about the technology
A primary election will be held for voters registered in Tippecanoe County.
In-person early voting begins on Tuesday, April 7th, 2026, at the Tippecanoe County Office Building on the 1st floor during regular business hours.
President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper rifle while speaking with reporters at the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) talks with reporters after a Senate Armed Services Committee closed briefing on the Iran war, in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
Pope Leo XIV leads his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Squarein Vatican City on April 8, 2026.
President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The White House today released the president’s proposed budget for FY 27. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement:
Mohsen Borhani, a law professor at Tehran University, said that as he read through Mr. Trump’s threats toward those the American president had called the “crazy bastards” running Iran, his first thought was of the founding fathers. In particular, he thought of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, “and the values that America was supposed to lead by,” he said.
At 8:03 this morning, Easter Sunday, President Donald J. Trump’s social media account posted: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F*ckin’ Strait, you crazy b*stards, or you’ll be living in Hell—JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
There are many things that could be going on with this ultimatum, which actually doesn’t sound like Trump’s usual style, in the same way the post of yesterday morning didn’t.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, addresses an audience on the campus of the University of Chapel Hill during a campaign rally on September 19, 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)
Hoosier children are less likely to get an annual checkup each year than children in other states, a new report commissioned by the Indiana Business Health Collaborative found. (Getty Images)
Hoosiers are less likely to undergo routine cancer screenings or take their children to an annual checkup than residents of other states, according to a new report commissioned by the Indiana Business Health Collaborative.
Over the past few weeks, Democratic establishment figures and the Israel lobby have come together to denounce mega-streamer Hasan Piker and to demand that left-wing Democrats shun his extremely popular platform. Their charge is that he’s an antisemite. The reality, of course, is that Piker is not an antisemite.
Legal expert David Cole speaks about the “blatantly illegal” U.S.-Israeli war on Iran: “The U.N. Charter absolutely prohibits one country from aggressively attacking another country, using force against another country, unless that country has attacked us — and Iran had not attacked us.”
In Gaza, a Palestinian man died from his injuries Thursday after Israeli soldiers shot him in the outskirts of Khan Younis. The killing came after two Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of people in Khan Younis. A relative said the strike killed a father and a toddler.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought speaks during a news conference with Republican leaders on September 29, 2025.
More than $100 billion has flowed from consumers and businesses around the world to fossil fuel companies during the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran, according to new analysis highlighting the economic consequences of energy price spikes tied to the conflict.
President Donald Trump wants his “SAVE America Act” (officially the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) to become law so badly that he is demanding Senate Republicans eliminate the filibuster in order to pass it. Enough Republicans are resisting that the issue has become a drawn-out battle within the GOP, grinding work in Congress to a halt and garnering much media attention.
The bill, which passed the House in early February:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) holds a “Tax the Rich” rally at Lehman College to press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on millionaires in New York City on March 29, 2026.
House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) talks with reporters outside the US Capitol on March 19, 2026.
An explosion over a sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, reportedly carried out with a US missile previously not used in combat, is seen on February 28, 2026.
Rendering: Courtesy of Purdue University
The ascendance of Christian nationalism inside of the second Trump administration has meant a lot of work for Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU). The 70-year-old organization has rarely been so challenged on both the legal and policy fronts. The AU is currently involved in lawsuits and political organizing on issues including abortion, LGBTQ rights, the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, and more.
