US Launches Its 63rd Airstrike of the Year in Somalia

New Orleans Becomes First Major U.S. City To Let AI Answer 911 New Orleans is testing just how much Americans are willing to trust artificial intelligence when the stakes are considerably higher than writing an email or ordering dinner, according to the New York Post. The city has begun allowing an AI system to field certain 911 calls, apparently making it the first major U.S. municipality to put a bot directly between emergency callers and human operators. The idea is largely about volume. New Orleans' emergency communications center receives more than 1,000...

Feared Free-Market Activist Warns Texas Stock Exchange Against Going Woke Authored by Will Hild via The Center Square, As the Texas Stock Exchange begins its launch, Texans have every reason to celebrate. Soon, the TXSE will join Nasdaq Texas as a fully functioning venue, and the NYSE has signaled a strong commitment to Texas as well. It is clear that Texas is emerging as a serious challenger to New York as the nation's financial capital. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott rings the Closing Bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in celebration...

"Showings Have Stopped": Housing Market Freezes As Mortgage Rates Soar To 3 Year High The American dream has never been more out of reach. Mortgage rates posted their largest increase in four years this week, one of the clearest signs of how the recent bond-market selloff is spilling into the broader economy - if not memory and chip stocks which continue to trade entirely on the highly efficient circular financing and junk bond markets. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rates surged 25bps in one week, to 7.28% from 7.03%, the biggest jump since October...