A For Sale sign appears in front of a house on Oak Street in Patchogue, New York, on May 17, 2022. Steve Pfost | Newsday | Getty Images Mortgage rates soared over 7% just a month ago, but since then they have fallen more than half a percentage point. Still, mortgage loan application volume decreased
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The Prince and Princess of Wales’ first overseas trip since the Queen’s death has been overshadowed by controversy at home. William and Kate arrived in Boston yesterday for a three-day visit before the Earthshot Prize, the prince’s environmental awards ceremony, on Friday. Hours earlier, the prince’s godmother resigned from her duties at Buckingham Palace after
Elon Musk is working to make Twitter a bastion of free speech–and Elizabeth Warren just isn’t having it. Fox News reported that the Democratic senator criticized Musk’s decision to end unfair censorship on the platform, claiming that “one human being” should not be able to make decisions on a social media platform. Warren has been
For nearly two years now, the media and the radical left have sought to perpetuate the narrative that Trump was directly responsible for the Capitol riot. To hear them tell it, Trump told his supporters at the January 6 rally to go down to Capitol, bust open the doors, and prevent the certification of the
The Biden administration has weaponized the federal government against the American people. But officials have hidden most of their attacks behind a secretive and cavernous bureaucracy. There are so many unsolved mysteries that Joe Biden and the Democrats not only refuse to answer, but in some cases appear as though they are ACTIVELY trying to
A transgender activist known as a leading voice for transgender people in Chicago, Illinois, has been fired from the LGBTQ center the activist founded after allegedly diverting the organization’s funds to “unknown” bank accounts. LaSaia Wade founded the Brave Space Alliance, touted as the first and only community center on Chicago’s south side led by
MSNBC’s 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle finally figured out on Wednesday night, nearly two years after it was launched, that the Pelosi-picked January 6 committee is a partisan venture. During the opening segment, Ruhle had a back and forth with Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leonnig about the committee’s final weeks before the incoming Republican
Joe Biden’s energy policy makes absolutely no sense. He won’t allow America to pursue its own interests and drill here, but he will allow Chevron to drill for oil in Venezuela. Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy was asked about this during a recent appearance on FOX News and answered in a way that only John
The fashion brand Balenciaga quit Twitter less than a month after entrepreneur Elon Musk took charge of the social media platform. The company has yet to say why it left Twitter, but some saw the brand’s decision as a political statement over the “free speech” direction in which Musk says he is taking Twitter. While
In case you missed it, fashion house Balenciaga created a furor last week with its ad campaign featuring toddler girls holding teddy bears sporting BDSM (bondage and sadomasochism) outfits. Lest you think the kiddie porn reference was somehow a misunderstanding or a one-off, yet another photograph in an apparently separate ad campaign featured a page
In this article DAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Sky Lounge during a tour of Delta Air Lines Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in the Queens borough of New York, on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images Delta Air Lines is making the most exclusive corners of
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has agreed to pay the US Virgin Islands more than $105m (£86.8m) as part of a settlement in a sex trafficking and child exploitation case. As part of the agreement, the estate will also pay the US territory half the proceeds from the sale of Little St James, Epstein’s private island which
On Wednesday, House Democrats officially tapped New York Democrat Congressman Hakeem Jeffries to be the next Democrat minority leader when the party becomes the minority next year. Because Jeffries is African American, and no African American has ever served as minority leader in the House of Representatives, the networks were quick to point that fact
(Reminder: all of the podcast episodes are now in the Kruiser Kabana section of our shiny new podcast page. I will be doing little teaser blurbs here and/or in the Morning Briefing for each new episode.) Recently I’ve begun looking at my various streaming subscriptions to see what I might be able to do without now that I
A woman in Philadelphia recalled her horror when she found her neighbor, a mother of two teenagers, decapitated on the kitchen floor of her apartment. Mary Liz told WPVI-TV that she thought she was going to help her neighbor when she went to her home, but, instead, she saw a disturbingly gruesome sight. “I’m here
Elon Musk claimed in a tweet earlier this week that Apple had threatened to yank Twitter from its App Store, but on Wednesday, Musk announced that Apple CEO Tim Cook said such a move was never under consideration. “Thanks @tim_cook for taking me around Apple’s beautiful HQ,” Musk tweeted on Wednesday. “Good conversation. Among other
In a truly puzzling piece of clickbait, Washington Post columnist Jason Rezaian — who reported from Tehran for the Post until he was taken hostage by Iran for 544 days — proclaimed he was rooting for Iran to beat the USA in the World Cup soccer tournament. Why wouldn’t you root for America, since it’s
Two days after blowing up Apple on Twitter over alleged threats to pull Twitter from its app store, Elon Musk says he met Wednesday with Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple’s headquarters. Apple CEO Tim Cook, file screen image. Musk initially just posted a video clip showing the scenery at Apple, “Thanks @tim_cook for taking
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the Biden administration announced an easing of sanctions on Venezuela. With the midterm elections safely behind President Joe Biden, the administration likely hoped that Americans would be too busy finishing their turkey dinners to notice the administration’s latest turkey—a giveaway to Venezuela. The Treasury Department issued limited sanctions relief