(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The median age for a first-time home buyer just hit 40, a record high, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors.
The median buyer age increased to a peak of 59 years, up from 56 the previous year. The median age...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) For the 14th time, U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday filibustered Republicans’ funding bill to reopen the government, guaranteeing that the ongoing shutdown, now on its 35th day, will be the longest in U.S. history.
The government has remained closed since Oct. 1, after Democratic senators...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Safety concerns, two triple-fatals involving 18-wheelers and a closer look at commercial driver’s licenses has led the U.S. Department of Transportation to say, “We are going to go after the CDL mills.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at a news conference said some schools for CDLs...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel has been taking criticism online for using an FBI Gulfstream jet to fly around the country for personal reasons, including hockey games, UFC fights and visits to his girlfriend in Tennessee.
Patel is continuing to fly for private reasons amidst the government...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Black Lives Matter organization is reportedly under federal investigation over allegations its leaders defrauded donors out of $90 million, most of which came after George Floyd died in 2020.
The group, formally known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc., or BLMGNF, has faced mounting...
(Spencer Pauley, The Center Square) Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has pledged up to $8 million in city funds – $4 million per month through 2025 – to offset the looming halt in federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits triggered by a congressional funding impasse.
A Senate vote to...
(Money Metals News Service) On a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviews David Morgan, publisher of The Morgan Report and co-author of The Silver Manifesto, after a volatile stretch in precious metals. Morgan is calm about the turbulence and quick to stress discipline as...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Millions of tax-exempt dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros have quietly flowed into the New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner and self-described democratic socialist, a new bombshell report alleges.
The report — authored by forensic accountant Sam Antar and published Tuesday — uncovered an alleged “systematic...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.'s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn't been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Economists told the U.S. Supreme Court that President Donald Trump's plan to reduce U.S. trade deficits will backfire, exacerbating the underlying issue the president used to justify the sweeping tariffs.
The economists filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that Trump's trade policies won't address the trade...
(Headline USA) U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead.
But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity...
Despite opposition from major federal labor unions, Senate Democrats blocked Republicans’ Continuing Resolution to reopen and fund the government for the 13th time Tuesday….