The U.S. birthrate has dropped to its lowest point in more than 100 years, triggering concerns about the nation’s economic future with a lack of fresh blood to replenish an aging workforce. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s provisional analysis of birth certificates tallied nearly 3.6 million newborns last year, down 2% from 2022. […]
LOS ANGELES — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level since late November, another setback for home shoppers in what’s traditionally the housing market’s busiest time of the year. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage rose to 7.17% from 7.1% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. […]
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week’s arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University. By Thursday, police in Boston and Los Angeles said they had arrested protesters at schools in those cities and at least one university announced that it had […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy slowed last quarter, growing at an annual rate of 1.6% in a sign that the high interest rates may be taking a toll on borrowing and spending. Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department said the gross domestic product – the economy’s total output of goods and services — decelerated […]
The Chinese Foreign Ministry refused to answer questions Wednesday about a U.S. ultimatum ordering China-based ByteDance to sell the American arm of its wildly popular app TikTok or face a ban in the U.S., a contrast with the loud approach Beijing and the app’s supporters have previously pushed. The crackdown on TikTok’s owner passed Congress […]
WASHINGTON — Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials said Wednesday. Long sought by Ukrainian leaders, the new missiles give Ukraine nearly double the striking distance […]
NEW YORK — For millions of American workers, the federal government took two actions this week that could bestow potentially far-reaching benefits. In one move, the Federal Trade Commission voted to ban noncompete agreements, which bar millions of workers from leaving their employers for a specific period of time. The FTC’s move, which is already […]
The Supreme Leader of Iran’s terror-sponsoring regime took to Twitter/X on Wednesday to defend Hamas terrorists, hurl false accusations at Israel, and celebrate the fact that useful American idiots align with his pro-jihad views. Students in New York and elsewhere around the country are waving Palestinian flags and chanting […]
Meta’s Threads is closing the gap on its main competitor and is now hosting more daily active users in the U.S. than Elon Musk’s X. According to new data from Apptopia, which researches social media platforms, Threads has blown by X in America’s daily active user lane. Threads has seen a stable rise in its users and now houses around […]
No, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. Nor will you go to jail if you continue using it after it is banned. After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its […]
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