US home sales rebound slightly in February U.S. home sales picked up slightly in February but remain sluggish due to tight inventories, affordability problems and nasty winter weather. More
Dollar rises above 100 yen for 1st time in 4 years The dollar has risen above 100 yen for the first time in more than four years as currency traders persist in selling the Japanese currency in reaction to Tokyo's aggressive credit-easing moves. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
FAQs about requirements of the Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012: its effect on governing boards of public corporations and state-owned enterprises By Jonathan AMABLE After a long period of campaigning and fiercely contested general elections, the results of the 2024 Presidential elections have officially been declared and the countdown to the ... 12/22/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Surprising implication for home prices in counties that flipped vote to Trump A Realtor.com® analysis of election data has identified at least 84 counties across the country that flipped from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024, from Florida’s densely populated Miami-Dade County to ... 12/17/2024 - 4:05 am | View Link
How Elections Affect The US Dollar: A Look At Past, Present & Future Typically, Republicans are seen as pro-business, offering incentives for corporations and investment, driving growth and the economy. Often, policies can be inflationary, which would cause the U.S. 12/16/2024 - 10:15 pm | View Link
Elections, Policy, And Impact: Global Leaders Discuss New Paths For Social And Environmental Change In A Shifting World Explore how investors and others in the impact community can take aligned action for policies that help shape sustainable markets and encourage innovation. 12/10/2024 - 3:35 am | View Link
The 2024 presidential election was close, not a landslide Was the 2024 presidential election close? It certainly didn't feel that way on election night and in the days immediately after. It became clear that President-elect Donald Trump was on pace to win ... 11/26/2024 - 7:55 am | View Link
Above: Driftglass has discovered woodworking! He made this cat-proof Christmas tree for our living room.
Driftglass and I are so grateful to be a part of the C&L family.
2024 will log ONE HUNDRED episodes of our Professional Left Podcast.
Year in review: We'll record Episode 100 for the year next week!
Buckle up, friendsit is going to be a bumpy one. 2025 is not going to start off the way we had hoped, but I want to share some of my thoughts (and a personal reflection) as we enter this tumultuous year.
Many of you got to know me in The Bad Placestarting about 10 years agowhen my son was 8.
After the presents, breakfast, hugs, and thank yous, it's time for football!
NFL Christmas Day looks like this: at 1 p.m. ET, the Kansas City Chiefs (14-1) play the Pittsburgh Steelers (10-5).
Then the Baltimore Ravens (10-5) play the Houston Texans (9-6) at 4:30 p.m. Eastern.
Which team are you rooting on to the Super Bowl?
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An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, leaving at least 32 survivors, according to officials. More than 30 people may be dead.
The plane was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.
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Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry said in a Telegram statement that those on board included five crew.
WASHINGTON — The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s views on vaccines, accusations of sexual misconduct against Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard’s 2017 meeting with then-President Bashar Assad of Syria.
While some GOP senators have indicated they are all-in for Trump’s picks, others have withheld support, for now, especially on some of his more controversial nominees.