Article Title: Democrats Point Fingers At Biden, Harris, Mayorkas for Costing Them the Election
Snippet of Article: "...accused lame-duck President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas of pushing a pro-migration agenda on the country despite millions of Americans rejecting it.
The data found that more than half of swing state voters broke for Trump solely because of his immigration policies. ..."
Article Title: Bernie Sanders Rips Democrats After Kamala Harris Loss: 'No Great Surprise'
Snippet of Article: "...Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats who won reelection Tuesday night, issued a scathing statement Wednesday afternoon about the Democrats' performance. ..."It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them," Sanders wrote. "First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well."
He chastised Democratic leadership for defending "the status quo" while Americans "are angry and want change."
"Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?"
Article Title: Trump to hold rally at Madison Square Garden today. Find street closures, security details and more
Snippet of Article: "..."You will see a uniformed, heavy uniformed presence around the Garden. You'll see heavy weapons teams, counterterrorism, aviation, transit footprint on that Seventh Avenue," NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said.
The city is anticipating protesters, but the mayor says the NYPD is ready to respond.
"While we always respect and protect the right to peaceful protests, there will be zero tolerance for crime, blocking traffic, graffiti or disorderly behavior," Adams said.
As for any criticism surrounding Trump's decision to hold a rally at the iconic venue, the mayor said it's time to dial down the temperature.
"This is America. This is New York. And I think it's important that we allow individuals to exercise their right to get their message clear to New Yorkers," Adams said. ..."
Article Title: Kamala Harris town hall host Maria Shriver shuts down voter hoping to ask a question: ‘We have some pre-determined questions’
Snippet of Article: "...Former California first lady and journalist Maria Shriver revealed that only “pre-determined questions” were allowed to be asked of Vice President Kamala Harris at a Michigan town hall event on Monday. ..."
Snippet of Article: "...When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.
But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.
The Bureau – which has been at the center of partisan storms – made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release. ...
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Article Title: The Great Tech Reset: Unpacking The Layoff Surge Of 2024
Snippet of Article: "...According to Layoffs.fyi, 384 tech companies have laid off more than 124,000 employees in 2024, adding to the 428,449 tech workers who lost...In August 2024, Intel sent shockwaves through the market by announcing a 15% reduction in its global workforce—roughly 15,000 jobs. Just days later, Cisco Systems announced ..."
Article Title: Pakistani National Planning 'Largest Attack on US Soil Since 9/11' Arrested
Snippet of Article: "...was arrested by Canadian law enforcement on a material support of terrorism warrant issued by the Southern District of New York. ... Khan confirmed that he and a U.S.-based ISIS supporter (Associate-1) had been planning to carry out an attack in a particular U.S. city (City-1). Among other things, Khan said that he had been actively attempting to create “a real offline cell” of ISIS supporters to carry out a “coordinated assault” in City-1 using AR-style rifles to “target[] Israeli Jewish chabads . . . scattered all around [City-1].” During subsequent conversations, Khan repeatedly instructed the UCs to obtain ... he was stopped in or around Ormstown, Canada, approximately 12 miles from the U.S.-Canada border. (DOJ)"
Article Title: Speaker Johnson Announces Stop-Gap Proposal Will Include Proof of Citizenship Voting Rules in SAVE Act
Snippet of Article: "...It's official. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act will indeed be a part of the continuing resolution (CR), which Speaker Mike Johnson introduced on Friday in a 46-page proposal to fund the U.S. government through the 2024 election. And the other side of the aisle is speaking out loudly in opposition to it. ..."
Article Excerpt: "...Unknown assailants twice fired on the main gate to the Chapman Annex early Saturday morning. Air Force guards returned fire the second time. No injuries were reported. The shooters' identities and motives were unknown. ... The first attack occurred around 2:15 a.m., ... Shortly before 5 a.m., the same sedan stopped just east of the gate at Ray Ellison Boulevard and Medina Base Road. “For a second time, shots were fired at the Air Force security ... said there was more than one shooter in the sedan"
Reference Source: San Antonio Express-News
Article Title: Fed official willing to raise interest rate if progress on inflation stalls
Snippet of Article: "...The Fed on June 12 skipped a rate hike for the fourth time this year, after skipping interest rate increases four times during 2023. The central bank last made a rate hike of 25 basis points on July 26 last year.
Over the course of 11 meetings from March 2022 to July 2023, the central bank raised rates by a total of 525 basis points to fight record inflation, which in the summer of 2022 rose to its highest point in more than 40 years. ..."
Article Title: Biden's big inflation problem: Prices are now up nearly 20% since he took office
Snippet of Article: "...Inflation cooled slightly in April, but even the slower price increases revealed this week still added to a tally that is perhaps the Biden campaign's most intractable economic challenge in the 2024 campaign season.
Prices as measured by the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) are now up over 19.4% in the three-plus years since Biden took office...."
Article Title: Equal COLA Act Needed as Federal Retirees Continue to Get Different COLA Rates
Snippet of Article: "...Under current law, the COLAs for Social Security, CSRS, and FERS are all calculated based on the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). If CPI is 2% or less, the FERS COLA is the same as the CSRS and Social Security COLA. But if the CPI is between 2.01% and 3%, the FERS COLA is 2%. If the CPI is greater than 3%, then the COLA for FERS is 1% less than the CSRS COLA. ..."
Article Title: Consumer Sentiment Drops to 6-Month Low on Inflation, Unemployment Fears
Snippet of Article: "...U.S. consumer sentiment fell sharply in May to the lowest level in six months as Americans cited stubbornly high inflation and interest rates, as well as fears that unemployment could rise.
The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday in a preliminary version, dropped to 67.4 this month..."
Article Title: All the data so far is showing inflation isn’t going away, and is making things tough on the Fed
Snippet of Article: "...The last batch of inflation news that Federal Reserve officials will see before their policy meeting next week is in, and none of it is very good. ..."
Article Title: US labor market slowed notably in April | Hiring and wage growth slowed, and the unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped
Snippet of Article: "both hiring and wage growth slowed more than economists had expected in April. ...unemployment rate rose to 3.9% last month, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...Wages also rose less than forecast...Friday's report also showed February's job growth revised down — to a gain of 236,000 nonfarm payroll jobs from the 270,000 previously reported"
Article Title: After Discovery of ‘Vote for Biden’ Flyers in Mexico, Mayorkas Can’t Say How to Stop Illegal Aliens From Voting
Snippet of Article: "...“They are telling illegal aliens, noncitizens, to come vote for Joe Biden,” Greene said. “This is corruption at the deepest level. As a matter of fact, I would call it treason.”
In a separate House Judiciary hearing, Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., asked Attorney General Merrick Garland about the flyer urging illegal aliens to vote for Biden. Clyde held up the flyer.
“That’s what this poster says; [it] reminds illegal immigrants to vote for President Biden,” Clyde said. “So, is the Department of Justice concerned about illegal aliens voting in elections?”..."
Article Title: Biden pays the price for causing runaway inflation as Americans are buried in bills
Snippet of Article: "...Is the Democratic Party incurably out of touch? On MSNBC Wednesday morning, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who delivered black primary voters and secured Biden the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, was gushing praise for Biden and denouncing complaints about inflation as “disinformation” from social media.
The host interrupted him to announce the report of the higher inflation number.
At a brief press conference Wednesday, Biden boasted the inflation rate isn’t as bad as earlier in his presidency.
Biden vindicated himself by falsely claiming “inflation was skyrocketing” when he took office in early 2021. Actually, the rate was 1.4% — less than a third of the current 4.8% annualized rate based on last month’s data. ..."
Article Title: CPI Report: Inflation Comes In Hot, Dashing Hopes for Fed Rate Cuts
Snippet of Article: "The consumer price index climbed 3.5% year over year in March, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, faster than February's 3.2% pace. Economists surveyed by FactSet had expected an annual increase of 3.4%. The strong pace was driven by upticks in the cost of housing and gasoline.
Core inflation came in at 3.8% year over year in March..."
Article Title: Fed's Waller still sees 'no rush' to cut rates amid sticky inflation data
Snippet of Article: "NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - Recent disappointing inflation data affirms the case for the U.S. Federal Reserve to hold off on cutting its short-term interest rate target...no rush to cut the policy rate" right now, Waller said in a speech at an Economic Club of New York gathering. Recent data "tells me that it is prudent to hold this rate at its current restrictive stance perhaps for longer than previously thought to help keep inflation on a sustainable trajectory toward 2%. ..."
