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U-Haul’s #1 KC Mover? It’s Not Who You Expect
If you had to guess what state has residents that move to Kansas City the most, which would you say? If you gave me 50 chances, I probably still wouldn't get it right based on new data just shared by U-Haul. I find these annual migration data...

MemorialCare Hospitals Recognized by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospital Rankings
All MemorialCare Hospitals recognized as high performing among 46 procedures and conditions. FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MemorialCare's Long Beach Medical Center, Orange Coast Medical Center, and Saddleback Medical...

FMLS: Continued Challenges Impact Housing Market Amid Elevated Mortgage Rates, Tariff Pressures
Georgia-based First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS), one of the nation’s largest MLSs with over 57,000 members, has released its July 2025 Market Intel Report, providing valuable insights into the current housing and economic climate. The report...

JJ’s Star Spangled Salute: A Veteran Gets Keys To A New Home
Today, I salute Veteran U.S. Army Specialist Daniel John Scipioni and Bank of America. Daniel enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2010 at 29. In 2011, he was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, and was seriously injured in combat. As a result, he was...

Concentration camps like Trump’s are not new to the U.S.
Trump's Deportation Plan Isn't a Departure—It's an Extension of U.S. History Mass deportations, indefinite detentions, and the return of the term “concentration camps” under Trump aren’t a break from U.S. tradition—they’re part of a long and...

Special Team Seeks Pretrial Detention of One of Ex-First Lady's Closest Aides
Photo : YONHAP News A special counsel team probing allegations concerning former first lady Kim Keon-hee sought a pretrial detention warrant for one of her closest aides, former Black Pearl Invest CEO Lee Jong-ho, on charges of violating the...

Blue State Blues: Gavin Newsom’s Gerrymander Is an Insult to Fire Victims
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is obsessed with politics, to the point that he is gerrymandering the state’s congressional districts — a waste of time, money, and effort that would be better spent helping fire victims. Newsom wants to undo...

America is controlled by a party of mad hatters. We can’t let their nonsense warp reality.
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Trump taps Mandeville's Paul Hollis to run U.S. Mint
When he was a little kid, Paul Hollis said his grandmother gave him a Peace Dollar from the Great Depression, sparking a lifelong love of coins. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump nominated Hollis, an elected member of the Louisiana Board...

Wayland natives' documentary on Guatemalan youth makes U.S. premiere
Childhood friends from Wayland collaborated on a documentary film, "Comparsa," that's premiering at the Woods Hole Film Festival. The film follows two teenage sisters in Guatemala City who use art to combat violence and poverty. The filmmakers...
BCTC president on plan to build affordable housing in Queens
Earlier this week, the city unveiled its plan to transform the former airport in Flushing, Queens, by building 3,000 new homes. Officials say the project would generate an estimated $3.2 billion in economic activity over the next three decades, as...

Trump’s Tariffs Hits Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago
BY NAN Business Editor News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Fri. Aug. 1, 2025: Trump tariffs are back – and this time, two Caribbean nations are feeling the heat. U.S. President Donald Trump announced new 15% tariffs on goods from Guyana and Trinidad...

Youngsters learn at museum’s day camp
KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette John Lee, of Lewisburg, portrays Civil War Chaplain William McCormick for the kids. The Thomas Taber Museum spent the week hosting a day camp where youngsters learned about American and regional history. John Lee,...

U.S. Fed poised to hold off on rate cuts, defying Trump pressure
The U.S. central bank is widely expected to hold off slashing interest rates again at its upcoming meeting, as officials gather under the cloud of an intensifying pressure campaign by President Donald Trump. Policymakers at the independent Federal...

Roaming Charges: Something’s Gone Wrong Again
A four-year-old Palestinian girl who died of malnutrition and lack of medical treatment in Gaza. Photo: UNRWA. “We live in an oligarchy, but with the humidity, it feels like a dictatorship.” – Judah Friedlander + This was the week the worms...

Dallas leads U.S hotel construction at Q2 with record high pipeline
Dallas leads U.S. hotel construction with record highs, as Lodging Econometrics forecasts strong growth through 2027 in major Sun Belt markets. PORTSMOUTH, NH – According to the recent Q2 2025 U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from...

China's small workshops are hurting. Trump's tariffs are only one reason.
GUANGZHOU: It was 96 degrees in the shade with high humidity and not a breath of wind Tuesday afternoon in a factory district in Guangzhou, the home base of China's garment manufacturing. The sewing workshops that were operating in one...

The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense
Image Source: Missile Defense Agency – Public Domain Last month, I wrote about the waste and futility of deploying a national missile defense (NMD), focussing on the technical issues that make the system unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable....

Trump’s authority to impose tariffs questioned
WASHINGTON — Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs. Members of the 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in...

After Trump’s Ukraine pivot, Senate panel moves to fund more military aid
The Senate’s Republican-led Appropriations Committee is recommending a major increase in Ukraine aid in next year’s defense budget, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to defund a long-term supply of weapons critical to the country’s...