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Inflation set a new four-decade high in February, with one expert warning on Fox Business Network that the United States is “headed toward a recession.” The expert, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett, made the announcement while discussing the latest troubling Labor Department report with Maria Bartiromo. As Fox Business’ Talia Kaplan reports: Hassett noted on Thursday, shortly after the release of the report, that “wages aren’t keeping up with prices,” which means “real incomes are going down.”He warned that the next CPI report will reflect “way worse” data. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) shows the…

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol charged Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) on March 3 for driving while his license was revoked. The misdemeanor charge includes the possibility of a 20 day jail sentence for the 26-year-old congressman, though most offenders are given a fine or probation. The Charlotte Observer continues: McClatchy obtained a copy of the citation, which said Cawthorn was very polite and cooperative during the exchange and that the trooper learned that there was “a pickup order” to take Cawthorn’s license.Knox told McClatchy that he can’t comment on why Cawthorn’s license has been revoked because that information is…

Frustration over an initial mail-in ballot discrepancy has led Harris County Election Administrator Isabel Longoria to submit her resignation. Following last Tuesday’s primaries in Texas, Longoria’s office revealed that roughly 10,000 mail-in ballots were not added to the unofficial Election Night count. https://twitter.com/BrianaReports/status/1501420473590165504 As of this week, all of the ballots had been added to the count. Longoria’s resignation will be effective July 1. Harris County, which includes Houston, has a population of nearly five million people. KHOU-11 reports: “Today I am submitting my resignation, effective July 1,” Longoria said. “I think this date ensures that there is a presiding officer…

A Russian airstrike has reportedly destroyed a maternity ward and children’s hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. As The New York Times reports: The videos from the hospital showed several wounded people being evacuated. Seventeen people were injured, including staff members and maternity ward patients, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the regional governor, said in an interview with a Ukrainian television station. WATCH: https://twitter.com/InnaSovsun/status/1501573868426874884 The extent of the casualties was not immediately clear. It was also not clear whether the hospital was fully operating at the time of the strike or had been evacuated to some degree. The strike was another apparent instance…

After some haggling, congressional leaders have come to an agreement on a two-and-a-half thousand page omnibus spending bill. That included a dramatic, last-minute decision by Speaker Pelosi to strip $16 billion in COVID relief from the bill after Democrats faced a revolt from within their own caucus for using funds from the American Rescue Plan to offset the cost of the latest round of COVID relief in the massive bill. Many House Democrats took umbrage at that development, which they argued took money away from their districts that they had been promised. A vote on the massive spending bill is…

The Biden administration has sent home a Saudi detainee at Guantanamo Bay who had hoped to kill innocent Americans on 9/11. Since 2002, U.S. authorities have held Mohammed al-Qahtani at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Back in February, the White House announced plans to repatriate al-Qahtani to Saudi Arabia for mental health care. The announcement generated outrage from some Republican lawmakers. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) called the decision an “appalling capitulation to the far-left.” The Washington Free Beacon reports: The news comes as the Biden administration is reportedly considering a trip to Saudi Arabia to discuss increased oil exports. During his campaign, Biden…

Amid mounting bipartisan pressure, President Joe Biden will announce a ban on Russian oil imports Tuesday morning. The development comes on the 13th day of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. An invasion, which has claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians and shows no signs of subsiding. Fox Business reports: As the war in Ukraine rages on, Americans are facing the surge in gas prices, and the Biden administration is facing calls from Republicans and Democrats in Congress, as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ban imports of Russian oil, and increase domestic energy production.Zelenskyy, on Monday, called for…

UPDATE: One of the victims in Monday’s drive-by shooting at East High School in Des Moines, Iowa has died. Jose Lopez, 15, died following the gang-related shooting on school grounds. The two female victims remain hospitalized. Four of the six older suspects, Henry Valladares-Amaya, Octavio Lopez, Manuel Buezo and Romeo Perdomo, have their first court date set for Friday, March 18. The two younger suspects, aged 14 and 15, are being tried, at this point, as juveniles. All six suspects face murder and attempted murder charges. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A shooting today at East High School in Des Moines, Iowa has…

The Baltic States have watched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with increasing anxiety. Their people painfully aware of Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s desire to expand Moscow’s European sphere of influence. However, unlike Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are NATO members. That prompted Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to tell Lithuania, and its neighboring NATO members, that the United States will defend the Baltic people if Russia ever decides to invade again. WATCH: https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1500778769963012097 Blinken added that no decision has been made on whether or not to station U.S. troops permanently in the Baltic States. As CNBC reports: Blinken was speaking at…

Authorities have charged the former mayor of Beaverton, one of Oregon’s largest cities, with possessing child pornography. U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug announced the charge against Dennis “Denny” Doyle earlier today. https://twitter.com/AngelicaKATU/status/1499780103198294019 According to court documents, Doyle obtained sexually explicit digital material involving children under the age of 12. The Oregonian reports: The charges stem from an old computer thumb drive or flash drive that was turned over to authorities containing the alleged pornography and other personal material belonging to Doyle, according to a source familiar with the investigation.Doyle is expected to make his first appearance before a federal magistrate…