Congress is back in session, and one of the first orders of business will be to confirm several new Cabinet members, including the following:
Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) as Secretary of State. Kerry was the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and has been a foreign policy confidante of President Obama. He is of equal profile to replace Secretary Hillary Clinton. It would have been difficult to replace Clinton with a diplomat because Clinton was perceived to have a broader, deeper political perspective in addition to the president's attention. At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the replacement is less clear. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is leaving after serving all four years of Obama's first term. As our t...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
Developer's Note 24 August 2026: WPI recently completed an exercise that updated the codebase for this app and solved some of the discrepancies between our five-year average calculation and USDA's. There are a few lingering cases where early (late) starts (finishes) to the crop cycle resu...
