Fueled by low mortgage rates, pent-up demand, and Americans working from home seeking larger quarters, new home sales shattered predictions and drove up the median sales price 5.3% to $346k from a year earlier, marking the highest for any January on record. Government data showed a 4.3% increase in new home purchases in January to … Read more
Over 3 trillion dollars in daily transactions for the world’s biggest banks were disrupted Wednesday, according to an alert status on the Fed’s website announcing a disruption in several business lines for Fedwire, FedACH, and 11 other areas affecting wire transfers, ACH transactions and check-clearing in the U.S. banking system. About 850,000 transactions each day … Read more
More than 100 pastors, ministry and seminary leaders, and other prominent American evangelicals have penned an open letter calling on other Christians to take a public stand: “We recognize that evangelicalism, and white evangelicalism in particular, has been susceptible to the heresy of Christian nationalism because of a long history of faith leaders accommodating white … Read more
A well-known property of matter that converts it from solid to gas is at the center of a wave of Tik-Tok videos alleging that the Texas snow is fake and part of a government plan to control citizens . The videos show how a handful of snow exposed to fire fails to drip water. “See? Proof,” … Read more
Following similar defamation lawsuits in federal court against former Trump attorneys Rudy Guiliani and Sidney Powell (both also sued for $1.3b) for claiming election fraud to enrich themselves, this lawsuit has a twist in that it alleges MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell used conspiracy claims against the voting systems company “because the lie sells pillows,” according … Read more
The 900-member police group said they had no warning and cannot see why their 7500-follower page was taken down but has reported that FB has told them that it will review its decision. Milan Sime Martinić Read more
“[A]n individual maintains a legitimate expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements” – Chief Justice John Roberts This week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for a change in the law regulating the ability of police to search citizens’ phone records. Since a 1979 ruling, which decided that citizens had no expectation of … Read more
Tennessee is the first state in the country to offer community college free for almost all adults. The state already had free community college for all graduating students, but now it has extended this to pretty much everyone. And the state lets attendees do it part time if they want, since many people work while … Read more
At a Senate intelligence hearing for an unrelated matter this week, senators ended up asking NSA and other intelligence brass about the president and the Russia investigation. The officials told senators they would not discuss the specifics of conversations with the president. They said they thought it was confidential information that should be protected from … Read more
Fired FBI Director James Comey has delivered a prepared statement to Congress this week. The statement described the six meetings Comey had with the president, some of which are considered quite unusual by analysts. During one meeting with Trump, Comey testified, he shared with the president sensitive information of a salacious nature that had been … Read more
On the test that measures critical thinking, some colleges actually had scores lower for grads than for freshmen, although other schools showed pretty good improvements. ‘Critical thinking’ refers to certain skills: Being able to understand the value of an argument based on the validity of facts involved, forming a conclusion about veracity based on available … Read more
A Walgreens in New Mexico is being criticized after one of its pharmacists refused to fill a prescription for birth control (Misoprostol), according to the frustrated mother. The ACLU is now in on the action. They’re filing a complaint against Walgreens: “A mother and her daughter who were discriminated against when they attempted to pick … Read more