Former Haitian Police Officer And Naturalized US Citizen Pleads Guilty To Gun Running

One Key Signal Says Rate Hikes Could Be Coming Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance For a while now markets have operated under the assumption that inflation was cooling, rate cuts were inevitable, and the Federal Reserve was slowly steering toward a soft landing. Hell, Jim Cramer started celebrating Jerome Powell’s “soft landing” some 925 days ago with inflation at 3.1%. Today, inflation is at 3.8% and Powell is leaving his post at the Fed and turning over his impossible task to Kevin Warsh. Which is to say the consensus is starting to unravel fast....

A Dozen Red States Join Trump's SCOTUS Vote-By-Mail Shadow-Docket Push The Supreme Court fight over President Trump's mail-in voting order picked up reinforcements this week: twelve Republican-led states, with Alabama at the front, filed Tuesday in support of the administration's emergency application, and the procedural clock now compresses the whole dispute into roughly the next two weeks - with the midterms 96 days out. As we detailed Tuesday, the administration went to the high court Monday seeking to lift the injunction blocking Executive Order 14399 - the March directive ordering DHS...

Los Angeles Is Painting Its Streets To Fight Heat Waves Researchers found that coating more than 700,000 square feet of asphalt in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a solar-reflective material helped reduce urban heat, though the benefits came with limitations, according to the Times of India. The project, conducted in Pacoima in the San Fernando Valley and published in Environmental Research Communications, covered roads, parking lots, playgrounds, and basketball courts with a reflective coating designed to bounce sunlight away instead of absorbing it. During a September 2022 heat wave, afternoon air...