President Biden on Friday afternoon signed a sprawling executive order designed to promote competition in the U.S. economy, urging federal agencies to take a broad range of actions such as more closely scrutinizing Big Tech, allowing hearing aids to be sold over the counter and lowering the price of prescription drugs. “The heart of American […]

Louisiana became the first Democratic-run state to drop out of a federal unemployment program that provided out-of-work Americans with an extra $300 a week in aid. Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday signed a bill terminating the federal pandemic unemployment programs on July 31 in exchange for raising the state’s weekly maximum jobless benefit to […]

The Department of Agriculture will begin making loan forgiveness payments to thousands of minority farmers in June as part of President Biden’s sweeping coronavirus relief plan. About $4 billion of the American Rescue Plant was set aside for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous farmers to address years of systemic racism and provide legal assistance to farmers […]

Hillary Clinton weighed in on former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial this week, suggesting in a tweet that if the Senate ultimately votes to acquit him, it will only be because “the jury includes his co-conspirators.” “If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won’t be because the facts were with him or […]