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Texas power retailer Griddy Energy LLC on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after the state grid operator cut off the company’s access to customers for unpaid bills following a rare deep freeze in the state. Griddy sold power to customers at market rates. When power prices spiked to $9,000 per megawatt hour (MWh) and […]

Former President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at an event organized by the campaign of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary. Sanders is running for governor in Arkansas. She was the first candidate to be endorsed by Trump after he departed the White House on Jan. 20. “Great weekend on the

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday excused Democrats who launched an investigation into possibly unseating an elected GOP House representative, explaining that the margin of victory was extremely slim. “It was six votes,” Pelosi told ABC News on Sunday, noting the number of votes by which Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) defeated her Democratic opponent, Rita

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed a bill into law that gives students across the state an excused absence when they use it to “engage in a civic or political event,” such as a protest. Fairfax County Public Schools, the largest public school system in Virginia, began giving students from 7th-12th grade a day off

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the Biden administration is looking at raising taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations—and may mull an outright wealth tax—to pay for future programs, as attention turns to funding measures for the next big-ticket legislative pushes like the infrastructure plan. Yellen made the remarks in an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This

Shares of China’s second-largest cell phone maker, Xiaomi Group, have dropped almost 40 percent in value since the company was blacklisted by the U.S. government in January, and its market value has now evaporated by more than HK$300 billion ($38.64 billion). Following the first open day on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2021, Xiaomi’s share

MONTREAL—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is offering reassurances on the safety of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as more European countries suspend its use due to safety concerns. Germany today joined the list of countries pausing their use of the AstraZeneca vaccine over reports of blood clots in some recipients, even though European regulators say there’s no

Authorities on Monday confirmed two suspects were arrested and charged for assaulting Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who reportedly died after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, although his cause of death has not been disclosed. In a news release from the Department of Justice, Julian Elie Khater, 32, of State College, Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios,

The recent surge of illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors attempting to cross the U.S-Mexico border can be directly attributed to the immigration policies enacted by President Joe Biden, according to experts as well as the administration’s own officials. Biden, who pledged on the campaign trail to reverse his predecessor’s immigration policies, is refusing to describe

One of France’s finest wine-growing regions, and one of its least understood, is the northern district of Alsace, a hilly region bordering Germany with a populace that’s as comfortable speaking German as it is French. Moreover, the grape varieties of Alsace (almost all of them white) are also found in Germany, with riesling, gewurztraminer, and