By Blake Neff Jeb Bush may have made his first notable gaffe of the 2016 presidential campaign, declaring in an interview that Americans need to “work longer hours” for substantial economic growth to return. The Republican presidential candidate was conducting a recorded interview with New Hampshire’s The Union-Leader and was answering a question about his tax plan,…
By Jonah Bennett District of Columbia council members voiced their support Wednesday for a new law that would allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. “These are residents who are well on their paths to citizenship,” Councilman David Grosso said. ”Unfortunately not all of our residents have a say in the politicians who are elected to represent…
By Michael Bastasch President Barack Obama’s push to unilaterally commit the United States to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions in the coming years is about changing the constitutional system that similarly hampered former President Bill Clinton’s global warming goals, according to a law professor. In a congressional hearing Thursday, George Mason University law professor Jeremy…
By Casey Harper After a series of violent months and scathing police union accusations, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts. Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis will replace him as interim commissioner. Batts led the department during the incident with Freddie Gray and the following riots that have brought the entire department…
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Maybe video games really do cause violence? Just kidding, we’ve already debunked that. However, in China, kids are taking the stock market crash a little hard. Just kidding. They probably don’t care about that at all. In a newly released video from an Internet cafe, a dispute breaks out between two kids, ending in one…
A Muslim in France was video recorded as he flipped out on diners at a cafe who were eating during Ramadan. It’s common for Muslims to fast during the holiday. The man was seen grabbing a microphone from a singer at the restaurant and screaming “People can’t eat because it’s the Ramadan,” before he flipped…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Obama administration unveiled new rules Wednesday to rid the country of racially segregated neighborhoods by directing cities and towns to set goals for reducing segregation, and then regularly report their progress to the feds. Communities nationwide will be given a series of questions designed to help them figure out whether racial bias is…
By Blake Neff A Twitter account tied to the online hacktivist group Anonymous may have foretold Wednesday’s sudden outage of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in a tweet Tuesday. The curious tweet was made by the account @YourAnonNews, the largest Twitter account tied to the group, with over 1.4 million followers. The tweet, made at 11:45…
By Blake Neff Wall Street was blindsided Wednesday when the New York Stock Exchange abruptly announced that it was suspending trading due to a technical glitch. Now, a tweet from Eric Scott Hunsader, the founder of the real-time transaction data company Nanex, has provided a handy visual indicator about just how dramatic the hiccup is…
By Blake Neff The stock market of China is in a free fall, and critics both inside and outside the country are accusing its Communist government of doing virtually everything wrong in its efforts to contain the crisis, risking the creation of Great Depression-level crash. The implosion began about a month ago, when the Shanghai Composite Index closed at…