Home improvement giant Home Depot reported a 3.8% drop in fourth-quarter sales, as consumers pulled back on larger home projects amid declining confidence and a sluggish housing market. Housing market freeze weighs on demand CFO Richard McPhail told CNBC the company has seen “a gradual decline in consumer confidence” over the past year, calling the […]
New Hampshire’s two U.S. senators are introducing legislation that would prevent the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from establishing immigration detention centers without first securing approval from local officials and the state’s governor. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, both Democrats, cite DHS efforts to purchase and convert a warehouse in Merrimack, New Hampshire, into […]
A grant program offering non-repayable financial aid may face major disruptions in the coming years if Congress fails to intervene. The Federal Pell Grant Program is facing shortfalls that could exceed $100 billion, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonpartisan budget watchdog. The CRFB found the Pell program is projected […]
Two days before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Moscow launched a massive aerial bombardment against Ukraine’s already battered power grid. According to The New York Times, Sunday’s barrage included hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles as Russia continued attacks on Ukraine’s electricity grid during what officials described as the coldest winter in […]
British authorities on Monday arrested Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the U.S., over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson’s arrest is the second high-profile British arrest of people formerly involved with Epstein, following the arrest of former Prince Andrew. Authorities alleged that Mandelson improperly passed British government information to Epstein. […]
As federal immigration officers continue paring down targeted operations in Minnesota, cities are saying the Department of Homeland Security’s deployments are costing them thousands of dollars. Minneapolis and Portland reported needing to spend an excess of $6 million, collectively, as they shared that DHS racked up costs for police overtime and for street cleanup necessary […]
In 1996, Congress enacted a law to assure Americans that their sensitive personal health data would never be disclosed without their consent. Lawmakers had never heard of AI. Thirty years after passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, artificial intelligence is disrupting the patient privacy that the law created. Individuals’ […]
A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told a congressional forum Monday that the agency’s training is “deficient, defective and broken” and that its leaders have been “lying to Congress and the American people.” Ryan Schwank, a former lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement who taught recruits at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, resigned […]
Escalating violence in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, isn’t just having an impact on American tourists, but the thousands of U.S. expats who call the city home. Census data from 2020 shows more than 3,000 Americans live there. Americans in Mexico That number is about to rise by at least one, because American Todd Price is keeping […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the standard-bearer of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, says President Donald Trump’s order on the weed killer glyphosate will protect the U.S. food chain while also allowing the country to wean itself from the broadleaf herbicide. “I will always tell the American people the […]
