The Jones Act requires that shipping between different U.S. ports be done by American ships.
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Pirro's office had investigated the renovation of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., which has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.
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The CEO of the world's largest condom producer said that supply chain restraints are depleting stockpiles of condoms and driving up prices.
'This whole school knew'
A prosecutor handling the case conceded at a closed-door court hearing in March that the government hadn’t yet found any evidence of a crime.
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Jake Reiner, the eldest son of renowned director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, is speaking out on Substack.
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The Department of Justice said it will drop a criminal probe into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Friday, a sharp pivot in an unprecedented investigation into the nation's top central banker. Why it matters: It opens the path for President Trump's pick to lead the Fed to be confirmed to the post after a standoff with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who blocked confirmation until the investigation was closed. What they're saying: "I have directed my office to close our investigation as the IG undertakes this inquiry," the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, wrote on X . - "This morning the Inspector General for the Federal Reserve has been asked to scrutinize the building costs overruns – in the billions of…
The lawyer tasked with defending Mississippi’s 15-week abortion limit in front of the U.S. Supreme Court did so in the face of “overwhelming advice” not to demand the overturn of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Mollie Hemingway’s new book Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution details. […]
The office will seek to crack down on the practice, in which people fraudulently take ownership of others’ homes.
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A few carriers are making a lot of money while many are struggling. President Trump and industry executives seem to think mergers may be the answer.