Repelled by rampant crime, high taxes and exorbitant housing costs, financial firms managing $2 trillion in assets have left New York and California for Texas, Florida and other Sun Belt states where the cost of living is as much as 40% cheaper, Bloomberg reports.
The US Department of Justice announced Friday that 39 sex offenders were arrested this month by US Marshals Southern District of West Virginia Task Force and West Virginia State Police.
Mortgage rates are pushing even higher this week and are now clocking in at their highest level since the turn of the century.
The Biden administration is quietly auctioning off millions of dollars’ worth of unused parts from former President Trump’s border wall for peanuts – in an apparent end-run around pending legislation in Congress.
At least 1,040 US school districts nationwide have implemented policies that allow staff to keep parents in the dark about their child’s identifying as trans or nonbinary, the Christian Post reports. The school districts represent 18,335 schools with more than 10.7 million students.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on August 1 that its agents rescued 200 victims of sex-trafficking during a nationwide operation conducted last month.
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake was felt in Southern California Sunday afternoon as Hilary descends on the region with catastrophic flooding.
Evacuation warnings have been issued in California ahead of its landfall this weekend as the National Hurricane Center predicts “catastrophic and life-threatening flooding” from a year’s worth a rain in the drought-prone region.
With Americans still facing prolonged financial pain from the record-high cost of living, the Federal Reserve’s concern over inflation could signal more interest rate hikes to come.
Retail spending in the United States rose in July at a much faster rate than it did in the previous month, reflecting what analysts believe is continued resilience from US consumers despite higher interest rates and still-high inflation. July was also the fourth consecutive month that retail sales increased.
In a breakthrough for organ transplant medical research, the kidney of a genetically modified pig is reported to be working normally one month after surgeons at America’s NYU Langone Health Institute transplanted it into a brain-dead man on July 14, Time reports.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a decision blocking Idaho’s first-in-the-nation ban on transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports.
A panel of federal judges has ruled that a group of parents doesn’t have standing to challenge a Maryland school district policy enabling officials to keep children’s gender transitions a secret from their parents.
Hunter Biden’s misdemeanor tax charges have been dismissed by a federal judge in Delaware, an expected move after his “sweetheart” plea deal fell through last month during his first court appearance in the case.
Texas wants Planned Parenthood to give back millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements — and pay far more in fines on top of that — in a lawsuit that appears to be the first of its kind brought by a state against the largest abortion provider in the U.S.
The abortion drug mifepristone should be more tightly regulated than it is now, with limits on the drug at seven weeks of gestation and requirements that patients obtain the pill in person instead of through the mail, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Former President Donald Trump is facing numerous legal battles before the 2024 presidential election and argues he’s being charged with offenses during campaign season.
Last week’s constitutional amendment vote in Ohio is just the start of a wide-ranging plan to obliterate abortion limits in red states, say pro-life advocates, who are urging Republican leaders, starting with the presidential primary candidates, to fight back.
Washington, D.C., unfairly enforced its “defacement” ordinances by dealing more harshly with pro-life protesters than with Black Lives Matter activists, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis, were indicted Monday for alleged violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and conspiring to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 general election win in Fulton County, Georgia, the Washington Examiner reports. This is the fourth indictment brought against the former president in less than five months.