By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Allyson Lopez hoped business would pick up at her dress shop in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, which specializes in ball gowns for Quinceaneras, a coming-of-age rite of passage in many Latino communities that celebrate a girl’s 15th birthday. Instead, this week brought the return of federal immigration … Read more
MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. Army Reserve attorney detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month after granting asylum at a high rate that falls short of the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals, The Associated Press has learned. Christopher Day began hearing cases in late October as a temporary judge at … Read more
PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) — The man suspected in a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was in the same academic program as the professor from Portugal before attending Brown on a student visa. Claudio Neves Valente was once a promising physics student, but he dropped out … Read more
The annals of Florida’s eternal battle with invasive species are filled with creative, unique, and bizarre techniques for ridding the marauding pest state. Barefoot python hunting, robot rabbits, contract killers, DNA testing, specially trained dogs and artificial intelligent traps are all in the arsenal. By chance, a new method appeared – diving with iguanas. Mike … Read more
Retirement is often framed as a reward after decades of work. The alarm clock goes silent, the schedule opens, and time finally seems to belong to the people who earned it. For many Americans, however, approaching retirement brings more anxiety than relief. A national LiveCareer survey found that 61 percent of working Americans say they … Read more
NuScale Power SMR and Okay, hey OKLO are both major companies in the nuclear power industry. NuScale Power focuses on building small modular reactors for clean energy projects. Oklo focuses on developing next-generation fission power plants and compact fast reactors that can recycle spent nuclear fuel. According to a report by Fortune Business Insights, the … Read more
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — The Republican-led Congress left Washington for a year without a deal to extend Obamacare subsidies, giving Democrats a strong political attack line heading into an election year squarely focused on affordability. Health care premiums for more than 20 million Americans will more than double on average in 2026, which risks … Read more
California lawmakers, both state and federal, warn that closing refineries could drive up prices, leaving the state more dependent on foreign oil. At the heart of the warning is the planned shutdown of two major refineries: the Valero plant in Benicia and the Phillips 66 plant in Los Angeles. Together, the shutdowns would eliminate nearly … Read more
NASCAR legend Greg Biffle and his family died in a plane crash at North Carolina’s Statesville Regional Airport. Airport officials confirmed on Thursday, December 18 that an aircraft registered to Biffle burst into flames on landing. “I can confirm there have been fatalities,” Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell he said in his first statement to … Read more
The biological cycle of our existence it seems relatively simple: we are born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a little more interesting. You, me and all 108 billion or so A wise man those who have ever walked the Earth have all been … Read more