Backlink: REUTERS The dollar edged back from a 20-year high on Friday as traders digested a report that showed the pace of hiring rose slightly more than expected in August, giving the Federal Reserve some wiggle room in how aggressively it hikes interest rates later this month. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 315,000 jobs in […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES The Colorado River Basin meanders through seven U.S. states and supplies water to Lake Powell in the Upper Basin and Lake Mead in the Lower Basin. In turn, these reservoirs deliver water and power to millions of Americans. Pointedly, these drops threaten hydropower generation and municipal water needs for 40 million […]
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Backlink: NATIONAL REVIEW The president called for “funding the police” instead of “defunding” to enhance public safety. President Joe Biden said Americans “need an F-15” to protect the country, not just a gun, Tuesday while saying the Second Amendment needs to be limited. “For those brave right-wing Americans who say [the Second Amendment] is […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES As the American middle class has been rocked by 2022’s record inflation, the Governor of Pennsylvania wants to deploy the same solution that many argue got the country into its current mess: another round of helicopter drop financial stimulus checks. “I want to give Pennsylvanians the step up they need to survive […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, operating out of Arizona, seized thousands of rainbow-colored fentanyl pills over the weekend that smugglers attempted to sneak into the United States over the border with Mexico. Officers in the border community of Nogales, which borders Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, seized 625,000 pills after conducting five separate […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES From grandmothers to college students, Americans have many reasons for aiding ‘Coyotes’. This is the second article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona’s border with Mexico. CASA GRANDE, Ariz.—Mexican drug cartel money drives international human smuggling operations in the United States, said Sam, owner of a private […]
Backlink: REUTERS U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, adding to last week’s sharp losses on nagging concerns about the Federal Reserve’s determination to aggressively hike interest rates to fight inflation even as the economy slows. […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Friday (August 26) in remarks warning there is no quick cure for fast rising prices. “Reducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-trend growth. Moreover, there will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions. While higher interest rates, slower growth, […]
Backlink: VISIONTIMES The National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA) was paraphrased as describing the situation as “the worst crisis the group has ever documented” in Aug. 23 comments to Bloomberg revealing the statistic. Data shared illustrated that the total overdue utility balance across all households piled up to $16 billion, up from $14 billion from January and […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Aug. 24 that it will waive penalties levied against American taxpayers who failed to file their 2019 and 2020 returns in a timely manner during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the IRS, roughly 1.6 million taxpayers, including individuals and businesses, will automatically receive the billions in refunds or credits […]
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Backlink: NEWS MAX All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under plans set to be adopted by the state this week, as the biggest economy in the United States drives a nationwide evolution away from fossil fuel. Proposals to be debated by the California Air Resources Board […]
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Link: REUTERS With almost all of Texas in drought, ranchers are sending ever more cattle off to slaughter, a trend likely to increase beef prices over the long term due to dwindling supply from the largest cattle region in the United States. […]
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