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Employers in the United States added 177,000 workers to their payrolls in April, the Department of Labor said Friday, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2 percent, defying predictions of labor market sluggishness following President Trump’s announcement of tariffs. Economists had been expecting 130,000 jobs and an unemployment rate unchanged at 4.2 percent. The prior month’s jobs figure was revised down to 185,000 from 228,000

Ex-“Squad” Reps. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman claimed that Democrats had originally wanted to pass $10 trillion in spending as part of former President Joe Biden’s doomed Build Back Better (BBB) Act. “We were at 10 [trillion] and then it went down to 6 and down to 3 and down to 1.7, I believe,” Bush said on the “Bowman and Bush” podcast on March 14. The two were reflecting on the collapse of Biden’s ambitious Build Back Better Act, which called for hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in “social infrastructure” programs such as universal child care, an expansion...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) said that he doesn’t believe spending cuts are necessarily needed and “we’d be better off” if the current tax cuts expired, but he wants to see tax cuts for the middle class. Co-host Becky Quick asked, “How would you go about cutting spending?” Pallone answered, “Well, first of all, this is all being done, these Medicaid cuts are being proposed in order to pay for the Republican tax plan, which, basically, just helps the very wealthy and large corporate interests.”

The nation is better off now than it was in 2021, President Joe Biden claimed Sunday at the Democratic National Committee’s holiday reception in Washington, DC. Under Biden’s plan of “Bidenomics,” inflation soared, gas prices spiked, credit card debt exploded, and housing costs skyrocketed. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index recently marked Biden’s economy as a -35 on a scale of -100 to +100.

Insulin resistance may not be on your radar, but it should be. This often-overlooked condition is a precursor to a host of metabolic conditions, especially prediabetes and diabetes.1 ,2 The good news is there are ways to protect against and even reverse insulin resistance. That’s important because cells rely on insulin all day, every day, to effectively use glucose for fuel. Plus, it can reduce your long-term risk of many chronic illnesses. How can you protect against insulin resistance? Read on to learn all about insulin resistance, how it impacts your blood sugar levels, and the best ways to naturally...

Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler slammed Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday for alleging President Joe Biden was stronger than President-elect Donald Trump on securing the southern border. Under the Biden-Harris administration, the southern border remained open: Nearly two million known gotaways evaded U.S. Border Patrol under the Biden-Harris administration, according to numbers released by Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security in April. The administration allows up to 650,000 criminal migrants and suspects — including at least 13,099 migrant convicted murderers and 222,141 migrants facing criminal charges — to roam through American communities, according to data released...

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill, a former Democratic U.S. Senator for Missouri, said Wednesday on “Morning Joe” that President-Elect Donald Trump knew our country better than Democrats. McCaskill said, “I think we have to acknowledge that Donald Trump knows our country better than we do. I think he figured out that anger — and frankly, fear — were way more powerful than appealing to people’s better angels. That anger and fear were going to work in this election. Whether you’re afraid of immigrants or afraid of people who are trans, he figured that out. And I think we all thought everyone’s...

Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley backed her one-time GOP rival Donald Trump Sunday in a new opinion piece, arguing the ex-commander in chief is “clearly the better choice” over Vice President Kamala Harris. Haley urged undecided voters to look at both candidates’ policy proposals, which she said clearly show Trump as the better option in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published two days before Election Day. The former South Carolina governor wrote that she agrees with Trump most of the time — though he isn’t perfect — and disagrees with Harris “nearly all of the time.” “That makes this an...

During an interview with Michigan’s Fox 17 WXMI on Friday, 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) stated that Americans are better off economically than they were four years ago. Fox 17 Special Projects and Investigative Producer Ilene Gould asked, “On Tuesday, during the debate, the first question was, to the vice president, are Americans better off than they were four years ago, regarding the economy? She didn’t necessarily directly answer that question, and I want to give you a chance, what’s your response?”

President Joe Biden claimed he could do the job of president “better than anybody” when asked if he would be able to carry out the responsibilities of being president in his mid-80s. During an interview with TIME magazine, Biden was informed that “large majorities of Americans,” including Democrats, are concerned about his age and ability to serve another term as president.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the “only person who can say they were better off four years ago” is former President Trump, in the wake of legal woes he has faced. “Multiple indictments and half a billion dollars in civil liability later, pretty much the only person who can say they were better off four years ago is Donald Trump,” Clinton said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The comments from Trump’s rival for the 2016 presidential race follow the former president’s lawyers indicating in a Monday court filing that Trump...

Comedian Jay Leno revealed he’s “not a fan” of former President Donald Trump, claiming that America can do “better” than a second Trump presidency. Jay Leno broke with his long-standing tradition of not talking publicly about his politics in an interview this week on Piers Morgan Uncensored. At one point, Piers Morgan asked Leno what he thought of Trump as a politician. “I’m not a fan,” Leno replied, adding that he disagrees with Democrats’ efforts to kick Trump off the presidential ballot in various states. “I’m against that.”

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) took a swing at former President Trump Friday, arguing that despite his myriad of legal woes, the former president is being treated “better” than normal criminal defendants. “Donald Trump is not being treated worse than any criminal defendant. “He is being treated, actually, better,” Swalwell said Friday in an interview with MSNBC’s Katie Zhang. “In fact, most defendants would be in custody and have their bail revoked if they acted the way that Donald Trump has acted.”

Interest rates are high. Banks are collapsing. Inflation is taking a bite. Businesses can’t find workers. Others still can’t find products. Small business optimism is low. Our national debt is exploding. A fungus has killed 99 percent of the world’s population. Wait…sorry, that’s just a TV show. The media love to report on doom and gloom. Meanwhile, and despite all the bad economic news we hear, I’ve got some good news: Things aren’t as bad as they seem. I talk to small and mid-sized businesses every day all around the country, and although there’s lots of grumbling, no one’s denying...

(NEXSTAR) – Scientists are hopeful a new type of vaccine in development could give us a better shot at fighting COVID-19 — without involving any type of shot at all. Clinical trials are underway for a type of intranasal vaccine, which is administered by spraying into the nose, not injecting into the arm. While current vaccines and boosters are very effective at preventing severe disease and death, the hope is that a nasal vaccine would be even better at preventing mild illness.

More Americans said things are going better in the U.S., including the economy and inflation, at the start of 2023 than at the start of last year, according to a new CBS and YouGov poll. The view of how things are going in America is slightly more positive this year, with 34 percent of Americans polled saying things are “going well,” compared to just 26 percent last year. Americans’ views of the economy are also up this year, as 31 percent said the economy is “good,” compared to 22 percent saying the same thing last year.

Former President Barack Obama praised his former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, asserting the country was better off since he took office as president of the United States. “The country is better off than when you first took office,” Obama said, flattering his former vice president. “And we should all be deeply grateful for that.”

Justice Breyer has sent a letter to President Biden informing him that his retirement will be effective 24 hours from now: at noon on Thursday, June 30.

The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region — known as the “breadbasket of the world.” Ukrainian farmers have been forced to neglect their fields as millions flee, fight or try to stay alive. Ports are shut down that send wheat and other food staples worldwide to be made into bread, noodles and animal feed. And there are worries Russia, another agricultural powerhouse, could have its grain exports upended by Western sanctions. While there...

Are you better off than you were one year ago? That’s the message the White House is trying to put over in a year-end memo to Democratic lawmakers and other supporters, according to a new report from Axios. The memo – titled “2021: POTUS Delivered for Working Families” — illustrates in words and graphics what the Biden administration describes as a year of accomplishments, according to the outlet. The two-page document touts the COVID-19 vaccination program, the widespread reopening of schools, and a decline in the unemployment rate and jobless claims. It also hails the passage of two major spending...