Existing home sales fell in December to the lowest level in more than a decade as higher mortgage rates cause turmoil in the housing market. Home sales in December slowed 1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.78 million, the National Association of Realtors reported on Friday, as higher mortgage rates priced out would-be buyers and led many homeowners to […]
The Biden administration announced it would cancel $5 billion in debt for 74,000 student loan borrowers who spent decades working in public service jobs. President Joe Biden said in a release on Friday that 44,000 of the approved borrowers had worked in the public sector for 10 years as teachers, nurses, and firefighters. Almost 30,000 […]
An Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 cargo plane made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport Thursday evening after experiencing an engine malfunction shortly after its departure. Unverified videos that circulated on the social media platform X showed flames and sparks shooting out of the aircraft’s left wing in midair. The aircraft landed safely at Miami […]
Former President Donald Trump defended his claim of presidential immunity against prosecution again Thursday, using former President Barack Obama as an example. “Obama dropped missiles, and they ended up hitting a kindergarten or a school or an apartment house. A lot of people were killed,” Trump said on Fox News. “Well, if that’s the case, he’s […]
EXCLUSIVE — Kari Lake has secured another endorsement from within the House of Representatives, giving her a boost as she seeks to flip control of one of the Senate seats in the swing state of Arizona. Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) will endorse Lake for the high-profile Senate race, lauding her as a “voice of sanity” […]
ANOTHER STRIKE, SAME RESULT: Thursday in the Red Sea was another day when a U.S.-owned tanker ship was targeted by Houthi missiles. It was the third this week, and it came several hours after the fifth U.S. strike on missiles in Houthi-controlled Yemen that were “aimed into the Southern Red Sea and were prepared to […]
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) kicked Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) out of a House committee hearing about relations between the United States and Cuba, accusing the California Democrat of spreading “communist propaganda.” On Thursday, Lee attended a hearing of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which she is not a member […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) likened House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) spending deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to something that would have been passed under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). An additional continuing resolution passed the House on Thursday to push the laddered deadlines for appropriations bills into March. The House voted 314-108 in […]
(The Center Square) – The state of Illinois spared no expense in taking part in this year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. According to documents obtained by The Center Square, the cost of constructing the Enjoy Illinois float, the performances and the entry fee cost taxpayers $560,000. The 24-foot-tall float took three months to build using about 22,000 […]
(The Center Square) — The House Budget Committee passed a bill Thursday to create a bipartisan fiscal commission designed to keep the federal government from going broke. The Committee passed H.R. 5779, the Fiscal Commission Act of 2023, with bipartisan support. Passage of the bill marked the first time the House Budget Committee had passed bipartisan legislation outside […]
