Big Oil heads for biggest profits in years as Trump pushes for lower gas prices

President Trump is ramping up pressure on the industry to lower gas prices ahead of November’s midterm elections.

This Republican Has a Wild Idea for Fixing Housing Prices: Let the Market Actually Work

Louisiana court halts criminal indictment against state attorney general

Republican Liz Murrill was indicted for the alleged intimidation of New Orleans elected officialsSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Louisiana’s highest court has granted a stay of the proceedings in a criminal indictment targeting the state’s attorney general, in the latest twist of a high-stakes political battle between Republican state leaders and Democrats who govern its most famous city, New Orleans.Liz Murrill, a Republican who is Louisiana’s first female attorney general, was slapped with a 16-count indictment on Thursday by a New Orleans grand jury charging her with intimidation and malfeasance. The charges effectively accused her of trying to intimidate New Orleans officials who fought a law passed by Republican legislators to overhaul the city’s courts. Continue reading...

“America-laster”: Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico Slammed in New Ad Ahead of the 250th Anniversary of American Independence for Comments Calling American Flag a “Complicated Symbol” (Video)

Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico proves, time and time again, that he is a radical with no place representing Texans in the Senate. The post “America-laster”: Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico Slammed in New Ad Ahead of the 250th Anniversary of American Independence for Comments Calling American Flag a “Complicated Symbol” (Video) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Trump calls himself ‘best president in the history of Israel’ amid Netanyahu tensions

President Donald Trump called himself the “best president in the history of Israel” on Thursday as his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to strain amid the unresolved Iran war. During an interview with CNBC host Joe Kernen, Trump boasted that he has been the greatest ally of Israel in its most challenging […]

Krugman Calls Labor Market Soft, Disturbed by Warsh's View

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, a research professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, says all jobs data is "noisy" when reacting to the June US employment report. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Krugman also says he is "disturbed" by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's point of view on monetary policy and warns that the Supreme Court's Trump v. Slaughter ruling gives too much discretionary power to President Donald Trump. (Source: Bloomberg)

“We’re Running Out of Oil”: The Lie Used to Support the Green Energy Agenda

In 1874, the state geologist of Pennsylvania, then the nation's leading oil producer, warned that the U.S. The post “We’re Running Out of Oil”: The Lie Used to Support the Green Energy Agenda appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Revealed: How Republicans are plotting how to halt Democratic probes into Trump

Democrats are expected to take back Congress in the midterm elections and Republicans are already plotting a preemptive strike ahead of that takeover to protect the White House.President Donald Trump's scandals are stacking up, from the files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, the push for a $1.8 billion slush fund, the bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House, the funding for the East Wing of the White House, the Kennedy Center debacle and a slew of other money-making schemes. Semafor reported Thursday that one way Republicans could hit back is by conducting their own parallel investigations. "Doing so would amount to an unusual assertion of power from the House minority, which historically has almost no ability to enforce any of its own investigative requests," reporter Nicholas Wu conceded. James Mandolfo, a law firm partner who handled the GOP's investigation of then-President Joe Biden's family said, “If the Democrats take the House in November, the Republican minority will be among the strongest in history because they likely will have the Trump administration backing them on core issues that they remain aligned on." Normally, the committees would have no power to enforce subpoenas or make demands to cooperate with a private GOP investigation. Mandolfo suggested Trump get his Justice Department involved and use the power of the federal government to go after anyone who refuses to do what he wants. "The Trump administration could take action against those companies/institutions that don’t comply with any requests from the minority," said Mandolfo. It's unclear what would happen if such individuals fought back in court.Semafor explained that such a plan doesn't solve a problem Republicans could continue to face: division within their own party. "There was friction between some Oversight Committee Republicans and the Justice Department earlier this Congress, after the GOP-controlled panel voted to subpoena then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation," the report said. The Democratic investigations will likely be conducted within each congressional committee, but there could also be special investigative committees, similar to the Jan. 6 committee.