Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday that air travel could take ‘days if not a week’ to get back to normal once the government shutdown ends. ‘If the government opens tomorrow — which it won’t, it doesn’t look like — it’s going to take us days to assess the controllers coming back into their facilities or their towers,’ Duffy told ...
Senate Republicans had planned to put the House-passed bill to reopen the government on the floor for a vote again on Friday, but after Senate Democrats signaled that they were willing to hold out longer, that course of action is likely to change. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., opted to keep the chamber in session for a rare Friday ...
Senate Democrats for years have warned of the negative side effects of government shutdowns that would largely affect their priorities, but as the shutdown drags on, they find themselves in direct opposition to their own pet projects. ‘There’s a tremendously twisted irony,’ Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told Fox News Digital. John Feehery of EFB Advocacy, who served as press secretary ...
North Korea launched a ballistic missile off its east coast Friday, just days after U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth wrapped up a visit to South Korea focused on deterring Pyongyang and reinforcing the alliance between the two countries. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the suspected short-range missile was fired from an inland area around the western county of ...
A Democratic lawmaker is backing the Trump administration’s decision to reduce air traffic as a consequence of the ongoing government shutdown. Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., said, ‘Safety must always be the highest priority’ for the aviation industry in a statement on Thursday evening. ‘The decision by Secretary Duffy to reduce flights at America’s 40 busiest airports is the right call ...
Colleen Hroncich When the first Chesterton Academy opened its doors nearly two decades ago, there was no grand plan to build a national network. It was just a few parents who wanted an affordable classical Catholic high school for their children. “The network was never a planned thing,” says Brenie Bowles, vice president of the Chesterton Schools Network. “It just ...
Rachel Reeves is considering a pay-per-mile tax on electric vehicles (EVs) as part of her forthcoming Budget, in a move that could raise hundreds of millions of pounds a year and help offset the sharp decline in fuel duty revenues caused by Britain’s shift to greener transport. The proposed levy, expected to feature in the 26 November Budget, would see ...
The government is still reviewing plans to tighten reporting requirements for small and micro companies, with ministers yet to decide whether to press ahead with rules that would require them to publish profit-and-loss accounts for the first time. In an interview with The Times, Blair McDougall, the new small business minister, said that “all options are on the table” as ...
One year ago, Donald Trump won a transformative election victory, sweeping all seven swing states, the popular vote, and moving all fifty states redder than they were in 2020. How did he do it? By motivating men, young men in particular, and sports fans who were fed up with the insanity of men winning women’s sports championships. I wrote about ...
MPs have urged the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to ignore “scaremongering” by gambling companies and push ahead with higher taxes on the most harmful products, as pressure mounts on the Treasury to extract more from the £11 billion industry ahead of this month’s Budget. In a report published on Thursday, the Treasury select committee accused betting firms of hiding their most ...