1/6 panel lawyer urged to run for Missouri US Senate seat
Former Republican U.S. Sen. John Danforth and others are urging a former federal prosecutor who now serves as an attorney for the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection to make an independent run for one of Missouri’s Senate seats.
Why ‘NOPEC’ Keeps Arising as a U.S. Answer to OPEC
For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.
washingtonpost.comWhy ‘NOPEC’ Keeps Arising as a U.S. Answer to OPEC
For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.
washingtonpost.comWhy ‘NOPEC’ Keeps Arising as a U.S. Answer to OPEC
For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.
washingtonpost.comGeorge P. Bush’s defeat could be the end of the line for a four-generation political dynasty
Bush’s defeat in the race for attorney general could mark the end of a four-generation political dynasty, and the end of an era of Texas politics that began when the first George Bush moved to Odessa in 1948.
Trump declined to engage with former presidents on COVID, saying 'Ugh. They're all horrible to me,' Kellyanne Conway writes in her new book
"'Ugh,' he said. 'They're all horrible to me,'" Kellyanne Conway wrote of Trump's response when she suggested engaging with former presidents on COVID.
news.yahoo.comISIS operative in U.S. plotted to assassinate George W. Bush, FBI alleges
An Iraqi citizen who entered the U.S. in September 2020 allegedly plotted to kill George W. Bush, even traveling to Dallas to surveil the former president’s home, according to an FBI search warrant affidavit obtained by NBC News.
ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush broken up: report
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uncovered a plot by an alleged ISIS operative to assassinate former President George W. Bush, Forbes reported Tuesday, citing an FBI search warrant. The alleged plot was uncovered after the suspect revealed information about his plans and asked a confidential FBI source to “obtain replica or fraudulent police and/or…
news.yahoo.comCandidate in hospital, others scrambling before Pa. primary
The last full day of campaigning in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested primaries for governor and U.S. Senate is under way, with a top Senate candidate in the hospital and establishment Republicans trying to stave off victories by candidates they view as too toxic to win in the fall.
Why ‘NOPEC’ Keeps Arising as a U.S. Answer to OPEC
For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.
washingtonpost.comActor Terry Crews on new book, career, self-transformation
Actor Terry Crews is laying it all out there in his new book, "Tough: My Journey to True Power." Crews joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his 12-year journey of transformation, what the word "tough" means to him, and how he found his voice in Hollywood.
news.yahoo.comWhat If George W. Bush Had Been MLB Commissioner?
Before he became a two-term president or even ran for Texas governor, George W. Bush was part-owner and General Managing Partner of MLB’s Texas Rangers, in a deal inked this week in 1989. We now know that the world of baseball almost kept the younger Bush away from following his father’s path to the highest office. In a memoir published in 2019, former MLB commissioner Bud Selig writes that “[h]ad things been different, he could have been the ninth commissioner, not me.” Yes, George W. Bush wasn’t so far from leading Major League Baseball, as opposed to the world’s most powerful country. In this counterfactual history, the implications for baseball are rich. But the much bigger question is what he would not have done for the nation and the world. Will and LZ talk about an alternate universe in which George W. Bush stuck to sports, with repercussions on the World Series and performance-enhancing drugs — and of course, on the course of the post-9/11 world.
news.yahoo.comThe Bush sisters join Houston Life team to talk about their exciting new projects
Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. on Houston Life: Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush Coyne. The twin sisters are the daughters of former President George W. Bush. Hager is currently the co-host of, “Today with Hoda & Jenna,” the fourth hour of NBC’s Today Show on KPRC 2. Coyne recently co-founded a non-profit and is a new mom. They’ll discuss plans about a big return to Houston and the release of their new children’s book.
How the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works: QuickTake
As U.S. president, Joe Biden has a rarely used but potentially powerful tool to make up for energy supply shortages or economically damaging price spikes: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR. Set up in the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s as a national energy safety net, it’s the world’s largest supply of emergency crude, stored in deep and heavily guarded underground salt caverns along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Biden administration is weighing a plan to release a million barrel
washingtonpost.com'She became our voice': Albright hailed by world leaders
As she pressed the Clinton administration into action against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic over war crimes in the Balkans, Madeleine Albright would harken back to her own childhood as a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled the Nazis in war-torn Europe.
WATCH LIVE: Ketanji Brown Jackson faces a 2nd day of questioning from senators – Houston Public Media
On Day 2, she faced questions from Republicans on her view of critical race theory, whether she called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "war criminals," and on the length of sentences she has handed down in child pornography cases.
houstonpublicmedia.orgBook review of The Year that Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Ev
The events of 2000, including the disputed election and the 9/11 hijackers' preparations, "broke" America, Andrew Rice argues.
washingtonpost.comJohn Oliver knocks Bush statement on Russia, Ukraine: 'You are not the guy for this one'
Comedian and television host John Oliver took a shot at George W. Bush for a statement the former president issued condemning Russian's invasion of Ukraine last week. "I join the international community in condemning Vladimir Putin's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine," Bush said after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "Hold on, George. Not from you," Oliver shot back during a segment on the...
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