The new year will ring in new "green" requirements from the Environmental Protection Agency for heating and air conditioning units that threaten to hike prices and, for the first time, require flammable refrigerants in residential and commercial HVAC units.
Since President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in November, Republicans have been riding high. What was predicted by pundits on both sides of the aisle to be a nail-biter of an election, with results that may not be certified for weeks or longer, became the modern version of a blowout. No, […]
Homelessness in the U.S. hit the highest level on record this year as the affordable housing crisis intensifies, federal regulators said Friday. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tallied more than 770,000 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January, an 18 percent increase from 2023 that is likely an undercount. Families...
A smattering of CEOs and top tech company leaders are currying favor with President-elect Trump, who has acknowledged with some awe that people who once went up against him now appear to be embracing the prospects of him becoming president. Top names in the business community have made the trip down to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida...
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro (D) sharply criticized incoming “border czar” Tom Homan during a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe," saying a "heart of cruelty" is behind President-elect Trump's strident immigration policies. Homan, who has encouraged undocumented immigrants to "self-deport" out of the U.S., said this week that family detention...
The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to ethnic and religious lines, as the current nation-states are not sustainable.
A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed mutations that may result in the virus becoming more transmissible among humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency in its latest update released Thursday said the mutations were not found in...