Biden accuses oil companies of ‘war profiteering’ and threatens windfall tax


A week out from US midterm elections, president pleads with energy firms to invest profits in lowering costs for American consumers

President Joe Biden has accused oil companies of “war profiteering” as he raised the possibility of imposing a windfall tax if companies don’t boost domestic production.

In remarks on Monday, just over a week away from the 8 November midterm elections, Biden criticised major oil companies for making record profits while refusing to help lower prices at the pump for American people. The president said he would look to Congress to levy tax penalties on oil companies if they don’t begin to invest some of their profits in lowering costs for American consumers.

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Vatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource

A reference to New Ways Ministry, a U.S.-based group that advocates for greater acceptance of gays in the Catholic Church, has been restored on the Vatican website.

A Vatican official has apologized to a leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it from the Vatican website, saying he realized the move caused pain and that the Catholic Church does indeed want to include gays and hear from them.

The Vatican’s General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics ahead of a 2023 meeting of bishops at the Vatican, restored the reference to New Ways Ministries on the website over the weekend.

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