Giorno: 16 Luglio 2021

Report: Workers Must Earn $25 per Hour to Rent Two-Bedroom Apartment

Rising rents, due in part to a hot real estate market, are driving up the average amount full-time workers must earn to rent modest apartments to about $25 per hour nationally, according to a new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Federal judge orders Biden administration to end new DACA applications

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Biden administration to stop all applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, after a coalition of states sued and claimed that the Obama-era program was illegal.

Joe Biden accuses Facebook of ‘killing people’ with vaccine misinformation

President Biden accused the social media platform of “killing people” by allowing what he deems as misinformation on coronavirus vaccines to be shared on the site.

Biden Says Social Media Misinformation on COVID ‘Killing People’

President Joe Biden said Friday that social media disinformation about Covid-19 and vaccinations is “killing people.””They’re killing people. The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people,” he told reporters at the White House as he left…

Mark Meadows: Infrastructure Talks ‘Will Fall Apart’ and ‘They Need To’

Infrastructure negotiations “will fall apart, and they need to fall apart” because the massive amounts of money won’t end up being evenly distributed between rural and urban parts of the United States and the sides in the argument won’t agree to the amounts to be approved,…

Wall Street’s China Dreams Get Jolt From US Hong Kong Warning

President Joe Biden has a message for Wall Street: Beware in Hong Kong.And with that, a question suddenly confronts C-suites across Manhattan. If the White House wants banks to reconsider their presence in Hong Kong because China is tightening its grip on the territory’s…

Rep. Jason Smith Calls for Legal Response to Freeze on Border Wall Funds

Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., on Friday wrote a letter to state attorneys general calling on them to prepare a legal response to President Joe Biden’s January decision to suspend funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.Smith claims in the letter, which was obtained by the…

CDC Director Walensky Warns of ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Friday warned of a ”pandemic of the unvaccinated” as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are on the rise in the U.S. ”There’s a clear message that is coming through. This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Walensky said…

Iraqi officials claim killer of prominent analyst arrested

A year later, Iraqi police arrested the shooter in the killing of a prominent public commentator whose slaying sent shockwaves through the country, officials said Friday. Iraq’s prime minister declared that with the arrest, his government has fulfilled its promise to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Reuters photographer killed in Afghanistan: ‘He was our eye’

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Reuters news service was killed Friday as he chronicled fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban near a strategic border crossing amid the continuing withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops.