According to The Independent, the AAA is saying that the price of gasoline in the US was above $4 a gallon every day of August, which is an unprecedentedly high price, even greater than in August 2022 ...

In mid-July testimony before Congress, Russell Vought boasted that, as the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he’d refashioned the agency’s approach to pursuing banks and other ...

House Democrat presses Trump Jr.’s venture firm on Pentagon-linked deals. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., sent a letter to 1789 Capital Management ...

Confirmed surely is that backing Trump three times was no random sucker punch, nor came with any hope of life improvements. Au contraire, the peculiar MAGA masochism fits perfectly with Trump’s ...

The American Economic Liberties Project released a healthcare agenda on August 27 projecting that breaking up consolidated hospital, insurance and pharmacy benefit systems could save American ...

The Pentagon issued separation notices on Friday to the editor-in-chief, the publisher and a Middle East reporter at Stars and Stripes. Erik Slavin, the paper’s top editor, told ...

Martin Luther King III said the march was meant to demonstrate “unity to defend the right to vote,” according to Washington City Paper. Arndrea Waters King, in a statement carried by the same outlet, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on August 24 that a coalition of 23 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia sued too early to block President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting ...

The 100 corporations in the S&P 500 that pay their median workers the least spent a combined $718 billion on stock buybacks between 2019 and 2025, according to a report published August 27 by the ...

Reich goes on to discuss economic inequality, pointing out that while inflation is on the rise, “most Americans are finding that their wages are stagnant … which means that most Americans are getting ...

The United States has announced its latest plan to put maximum economic pressure on Iran. Launching “Operation Economic Outcast” on August 24, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said the plan ...

Agents of Brazil’s Indigenous agency, FUNAI, spent 60 days in June and July 2026 physically marking the borders of the Rio Pardo Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. The 411,000-hectare area in the Amazon ...