Red States Are Winning In The Economic Recovery From COVID

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The economies of red states – those that lean Republican – have recovered more quickly from the pandemic than blue states, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal analyzed federal data and numerous studies and reported that Republican-led states are “winning” the economic recovery by multiple measures. “Since February 2020, the month before the pandemic began, the share of all U.S. jobs located in red states has grown by more than half a percentage point, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Brookings Institution think tank. Red states have added 341,000 jobs over that time,

Secret Service Director Leaving To Take Job At Snapchat

Secret Service Director James Murray is retiring from the agency at the end of this month for a top security job with Snapchat’s parent company. “We’re thrilled to welcome Jim Murray to Snap and look forward to him joining our team on August 1st,” a Snap, Inc. spokesperson said in an email to the New York Post. The Secret Service announced Murray’s retirement in a statement on Thursday. “Director Murray has served as the agency’s chief executive since May 1, 2019,” the statement said. “As Director, Murray contributed significantly to the agency’s continued professionalization and growth, and helped the agency

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson Resigns

On Thursday, Boris Johnson announced that he would be resigning as Britain’s Prime Minister after many of his advisers and government ministers called for him to do so. “It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister, and I’ve agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench M.P.s, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now and the timetable will be announced next week,” Johnson said in his resignation speech. “And I’ve today appointed a cabinet to

Biden Admin Plans To Block New Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Pacific

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As gas prices remain near record highs, Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has released a plan to block new offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, while potentially allowing limited expansion in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s south coast. “The proposed plan puts forward several options from no lease sales up to 11 lease sales over the next five years. Like the current program finalized in 2016, it removes from consideration the federal waters off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts while inviting public comment on 10 potential sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one in the

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