Obamacare Lives: The Affordable Care Act, the health insurance law known as “Obamacare,” survived its third challenge in the Supreme Court by a 7-2 vote, possibly ending the Republican campaign to kill it.   Justice Stephen Breyer said in the majority opinion that …

Pure Business: President Biden says he told Vladimir Putin that the US would respond in a tough way if Russian hackers were to attack any of 16 vital infrastructure entities in the US. “I pointed out to him we have significant …

Eastern Threat: The 30 NATO defense pact countries issued a warning yesterday that that China increasingly poses a global security problem, shifting the focus of an organization founded to defend Europe and North America.    “The democratic values that undergird our alliance are …

Bye Bye Bibi: Nearly immediately after being voted out by Parliament, Israel’s long-serving prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring down the coalition government that has replaced him after 12 years in office.    “If it is destined for us to be …

Viral News: The Food and Drug Administration ordered Johnson & Johnson to throw out 60 million doses of Covid vaccine because of suspicion that they might be contaminated.   The doses were made at a Baltimore facility that may not have followed …

Deal in the Works:  A bipartisan group of 10 Senate Democrats and Republicans agreed to a nearly $1 trillion, five-year infrastructure bill to improve the country’s roads, bridges, pipes, and internet connections.   The group took up talks after President Biden’s discussions …

Pipeline Cancelled: The company that was building the disputed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Nebraska has given up and cancelled construction.   One of President Biden’s first acts in office was to revoke the pipeline’s permit to cross into the United …

Taxing Question: The 25 richest Americans, including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and Elon Musk, paid relatively little and sometimes no federal income taxes between 2014 and 2018, according to analysis from the news organization ProPublica  based on tax data evidently purloined from the Internal …

Cybercrime: Federal authorities say they recovered more than two million dollars in cryptocurrency paid as ransom to foreign hackers who shut down the Colonial Pipeline that provides nearly half the fuel to the East Coast. It’s believed to be the first …

Apocalypse Now: Saturday night in his first political speech since leaving the presidency, Donald Trump introduced what is likely to be a campaign theme, calling on China to pay trillions of dollars in reparations for the pandemic.   “China inflicted an estimated $ …