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- Only 28% of Homes on the Market are Affordable for a Typical Household
Buying power is down nearly $30,000 nationally since 2019, despite a 15.7% rise in median incomeHigher mortgage rates are costing buyers an extra $7,200 per year in financing for a $400,000 home ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - The Joseph McCarthy of the Trump Era
The first thing Laura Loomer wanted to know when I called her earlier this month was whether this was going to be a “hit piece.” The self-described investigative journalist and unofficial adviser to President Donald Trump is familiar with the genre. She had just attacked the United States Army for praising a recipient of the Medal of the Honor. She would soon claim without evidence that Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—another person comfortable trafficking in unsubstantiated allegations—“gave blow jobs in the back rooms of CrossFit gyms.” Soon after that, she said that Palestinian children receiving medical care in the United States posed a “dangerous” threat to American national security.You never know just how far she will go, but that’s the game she plays. I suggested at one point that her effort to get federal employees fired for supposed disloyalty to Trump recalled the Red Scare of the early 1950s, when… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - I Live Where DC Crime Actually Happens. Here’s What Trump Is Missing.
On August 3, someone was shot about five blocks from my house in Washington, DC. Just two nights before, we had called 911 because of gunfire nearby—not an unusual occurrence. A week later, someone was murdered six or seven blocks away, in broad daylight. My neighborhood also has the usual urban scourges: porch pirates, the CVS where everything is under lock and key, the ATV drivers who roar up and down the street doing wheelies and terrorizing motorists and pedestrians alike. President Donald Trump has recently decided he would save us from all this. Last week, he moved to federalize DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and sent hundreds of federal officers and National Guard soldiers into the city. Dozens of masked thugs arrived in my neighborhood, where they set up traffic checkpoints, abducted delivery drivers, and marched up and down the sidewalk in tactical gear, while confused residents and… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Trump’s USDA Eliminates Support for Renewable Energy, a Lifeline for FarmersThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Department of Agriculture announced this week that it will stop funding wind and solar energy on American farmland, a move that continues the Trump administration’s attempts to kill incentives for renewables while it boosts support for fossil fuels and land-hungry, energy inefficient biofuels. At the state fairgrounds in Lebanon, Tennessee, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday that the agency will no longer allow “businesses to use your taxpayer dollars to fund solar projects on prime American farmland, and we will no longer allow solar panels manufactured by foreign adversaries to be used in our USDA-funded projects.” The move is part of a broader effort by the administration to revoke or reduce Biden-era funding for the expansion of wind and solar through the Inflation Reduction Act, much of which benefited farmers and… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
- A Photographer’s View of ICE’s Relentless Courthouse ArrestsWhen it happens, it’s so much quieter, so much quicker than you expect. Each weekday immigrants make their way through the halls of 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, uneasy and confused, searching for the right courtroom for their asylum hearing. Most carry a handful of documents and dress in their sharpest outfits. They turn a corner and stop cold as they stumble into a team of black-masked agents huddled against the walls. The agents stand, shoulders slumped, eyes cast at phones, hands tucked into plate carriers affixed with velcro patches advertising a constellation of three letter agencies—ICE, CBP, ATF, DSS, FBI, HSI—and the US Border Patrol. One is struck by their casual sloppiness and lack of proper uniforms. Take away the service weapons and body armor, and they could be delivering pizzas. Into this dynamic stumble the photographers. It is a quirk of the ad-hoc nature of the immigration… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
- They’re Rich, They Travel and They Love to Complain
A Birkin bag overnighted to Capri. A pink Brabus sports car for a Gen Z birthday party. Olivia Ferney, a travel agent to the ultrawealthy, has heard it all. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
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