Commentary Oh, great- another addition to the energy crisis. One of the world's largest natural gas liquefaction plants suffered an explosion on Wednesday. The cause of the blast is not known, but the Freeport LNG plant on Quintana Island - about 70 miles south of Houston - will be out of service for at least three weeks, the Houston Chronicle reported.

It's no secret that Americans are paying record prices at the gas pumps. Rapidly ascending prices also affect the cost of all the goods and services that are an integral part of the American economy. Farmers, manufacturers, delivery companies, repair people...you name it: they're paying more to do their jobs, and they're passing those costs to consumers.

President Joe Biden's administration said Wednesday it doesn't plan on closing any Texas child care facilities housing immigrant minors, rebuking a recent order from GOP Governor Greg Abbott to remove the sites' licenses. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that the agency's "top priority is the health and safety of the children in our care."

A federal judge has stayed her previous ruling that would have ended a federal moratorium on evictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, The Hill reported Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich on Friday placed a stay on her May 5 ruling that would have ended a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention federal eviction freeze due to the pandemic, giving renters behind on payments a brief respite.

"Even though freedom is its own wondrous virtue, panicky politicians erased it in 2020 on the supposition that personal and economic desperation was the best solution for a spreading virus. Historians will marvel at the abject stupidity of the political class in 2020." ~ John Tamny

The spy agency is known for its sometimesquestionable tactics and violations of other nations' sovereignty in order to carry out its duties. And sometimes those actions, while alarming and despicable, may even be justified for national security. But now the CIA just got exposed for the most massive conspiracy of...

The Punjab Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC), in India, has been caught cooking the books and misreporting non-preforming loans (NPL) of Mumbai-based real estate developer Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL).