EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) plans to introduce legislation aimed at ensuring that Mexico stops giving preferential treatment to its state-owned energy companies, arguing it is violating the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement and hurting American companies. Arrington, who chairs the House Budget Committee, will introduce the Mexican Energy Trade Enforcement Act on Friday. The bill directs […]

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent sustained serious injuries to his face on Monday during an immigration raid in Houston, the Department of Homeland Security reported on Thursday. According to a DHS press release, Walter Leonel Perez Rodriguez, 33, was arrested during a Monday encounter with ICE agents in Houston. ‘This young officer’s life […]

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) retirement will open up her San Francisco-based House seat for the first time in decades, with eyes already turning to state Democrats to see who will jump into the jungle primary to replace the political powerhouse. Pelosi, who announced her retirement on Thursday, is the latest in a handful of old guard establishment Democrats making […]

Jamie Dimon has been running JPMorgan Chase for nearly two decades. The business press still hails him as the man who steered the bank through the 2008 financial crisis. I’m less impressed. It’s easy to look steady at the helm when you’re floating on a $29 trillion sea of taxpayer bailouts. This is what half […]

THE BATTLE FOR POKROVSK: For a year and a half, Russia has committed an inordinate number of forces and suffered horrific casualties (over 1,500 dead last month) trying to take the city of Pokrovsk, located on the front lines of Donetsk province in eastern Ukraine. The latest battlefield reports suggest Ukrainian defenders of the city […]