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Friday, March 29, 2024

"We are sacrificing time away from family and making more money in the private sector for the vanity of a few people (on both sides) that want to raise money and their media profiles," said one House Republican. "The vast majority of members came to make a difference. We understand the utility of posturing and politics for the goal of governing. That's not what's going on anymore though. The inmates are running the asylum," the lawmaker added. read more


A California judge has formally recommended that attorney John Eastman lose his law license for his role in Donald Trump's legal effort to remain in power after losing the 2020 presidential election. read more


The US stock market has hit a record high after a string of downbeat trading sessions. read more


Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to lead North Carolina K-12 schools touted her work for a group that said school shooting are false flags, 9/11 was an inside job, and that Obama had a "Hitler bloodline." read more


Fast food workers are losing their jobs in California as more restaurant chains prepare to meet a new $20 minimum wage set to go into effect next week. read more


The exploding demand for cheap power means Iceland has become a global hub for Bitcoin mining, and that's something Iceland's Prime Minister Katrn Jakobsdttir is not happy with. read more


Louis Gossett Jr., who became the first Black man to win the Oscar for best supporting actor for playing a no-nonsense drill sergeant in "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982), has died, his family said Friday. He was 87. read more


A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, who was given a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised release for federal tax evasion. read more


A CNN fact check found that a bus that Republican state representative in Michigan Rep. Matt Maddock said was a bus of "illegal invaders" was actually a basketball team arriving in Detroit to play in a March Madness game. read more


They came to the United States for a chance at a better life. They found work filling pot holes on a bridge in the middle of the night, and they ended up dead in the Baltimore harbor. The six victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse were all immigrants from Mexico and Central America, doing the kind of grueling work that many immigrants take on and sent them plunging into the icy Patapsco River. read more


Automaker Stellantis (STLA) , which manufactures top car brands such as Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge, laid off about 400 of its U.S. corporate employees late last week, and it used a sneaky new tactic to do it. read more


Simon Montlakeriley Robinson: People are having fewer children later in life. What do smaller families mean for society? read more


Thursday, March 28, 2024

U.S. consumer sentiment rose unexpectedly in March to the highest in nearly three years thanks in part to growing confidence that inflation will keep softening. The University of Michigan's benchmark Consumer Sentiment Index rose to a final reading for the month of 79.4, the highest since July 2021, from February's 76.9. read more


Since leaving office in 2021, former President Donald J. Trump has spent more than $100 million on lawyers and other costs related to fending off various investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials. The remarkable sum means that Mr. Trump has averaged more than $90,000 a day in legal-related costs for more than three years - none of it paid for with his own money. read more


With Americans living longer and spending more years in retirement, the nation's changing demographics are "putting the U.S. retirement system under immense strain," according to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in his annual shareholder letter. One way to fix it, he suggests, is for Americans to work longer before they head into retirement. read more


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