Month: June 2022

Here Are the SoCal Cities With the Most Homes Sold in May as Market Cools Off

As the home prices are leveling off in Southern California amid rising interest rates, Lancaster of Los Angeles County, Mission Viejo of Orange County, and Fallbrook of San Diego County are among the cities with the most home sales in May. Otto Catrina, the president of the California Association of Realtors, said the housing market…


Trump Responds to Potential Trump-DeSantis 2024 Ticket

Former President Trump said he’s not ruling out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a possible running mate in a potential 2024 presidential bid. When asked in a Newsmax interview Thursday about a Trump–DeSantis ticket, Trump said he has a good relationship with the Republican governor. “Well, I get along with him,” Trump said. “I was very…


FBI Says More People Using ‘Deepfake’ Technology to Apply for Jobs

The FBI has published a new statement warning about the increasingly prevalent use of “deepfake” technology in job interviews, allowing users to assume the identity of someone else over digital video interviews in order to gain access to sensitive data. On June 28, the FBI released a public service announcement about the growing problem, in…


Study Sounds Alarm Over New Bacteria Increasingly Spreading Among Humans

A strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered in pigs is spreading to people and causing infections, according to a new study released this week. A strain of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) is suspected to have emerged among European pigs and other livestock in the past several decades because of frequent antibiotic use in farming. “Historically…


Iga Swiatek Survives Scare, Wins 37th Straight Match

World No. 1 Iga Swiatek overcame a scare from Dutch lucky loser Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove to advance to the third round of Wimbledon on Thursday. Swiatek captured her 37th consecutive match victory with a 6–4, 4–6, 6–3 triumph over Pattinama Kerkhove. The 21-year-old native of Poland needed just over two hours to dispatch the World’s…


China’s Great Philosophers Would Despise What Mao and the CCP Created

Commentary When the author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” Gordon Chang, predicted the imminent demise of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule two decades ago, he argued that “regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they’re no longer alone.” Chang’s forecast has yet to materialize. The state that Mao Zedong built…


Trump’s SCOTUS Keeps #Winning with EPA Decision

Commentary Thank you, Donald Trump, for “packing”—in your way, not the Democrats’ way—the Supreme Court with sensible people. Finally, we’re beginning to take the years ago advice of Nat King Cole to “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (in more ways than one). First came the long overdue overturning of Roe v. Wade, allowing the states…


SCOTUS Limits EPA Reach to Regulate Emissions; Consumer Spending Weakens | NTD Business

The Supreme Court issues a major ruling, limiting the EPA’s authority to regulate power plant emissions. Democrats and Republicans are split. Consumer spending weakens in May. An economist shares his thoughts on the data and why the main figures might not be so bad. North Dakota greenlights a farmland purchase tied to Bill Gates. Why…


LIVE NOW: SCOTUS Limits EPA Reach to Regulate Emissions; Consumer Spending Weakens | NTD Business

The Supreme Court issues a major ruling, limiting the EPA’s authority to regulate power plant emissions. Democrats and Republicans are split. Consumer spending weakens in May. An economist shares his thoughts on the data and why the main figures might not be so bad. North Dakota greenlights a farmland purchase tied to Bill Gates. Why…


SCOTUS to Hear Case That Could Give State Legislatures, Not Judges, Power to Regulate Elections

The Supreme Court decided on June 30 to hear an important new case that Republicans hope will re-empower state legislatures to make rules for redistricting and governing congressional and presidential elections. Republicans say the U.S. Constitution has always directly authorized state legislatures to make rules for the conduct of elections, including presidential elections. Democrats say…