A Bronx 4-year-old fell to his death from his family’s 10th-floor apartment because of a broken lock on the balcony door, according to a lawsuit. Yandra Minaya, 35, was getting her 11-month-old daughter ready for a bath when she realized she couldn’t hear her son, Jayden, in the other room. The mom panicked and began […]
Housing Starts And Permits Fell In March
June 21, 2023 by
The nascent recovery in the U.S. housing market took a breather in March, with both permits and housing starts declining for the month. Housing starts, which are measured when builders break ground on a new home, fell 0.8 percent in March to an annualized rate of 1.420 million, according to government data released on Tuesday.
How Trapped Palestinians Fell in Love With Bird-Watching
April 9, 2023 by
GAZA CITY—The skies of Gaza fill with shifting shapes on an early spring morning. At first they are barely visible, only specks soaring above central Gaza’s wetlands.Mandy Sirdah quickly raises her binoculars. “Storks!” she shouts excitedly. Close by, Lara Sirdah, her identical twin sister wearing matching clothes, grabs her long-focus camera and points it to
Adpocalypse 2.0: Twitter Ad Revenue Fell by 70 Percent in December
March 12, 2023 by
Twitter’s advertising revenue dropped sharply in December 2022, with ad spending from top brands falling 71 percent compared to the same month in 2021. The data, from Standard Media Index (SMI) data, comes as major corporations attempt to pressure Elon Musk’s Twitter over its restoration of prominent banned conservative accounts. Elon Musk’s Halloween costume (Taylor Hill
U.S. Economy Added 916,000 Jobs in March, Unemployment Fell to 6.0%
April 3, 2021 by
The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.0 percent, the Labor Department said in its monthly labor assessment Friday, smashing expectations. Most analysts had predicted Friday’s report would show between 439,000 and one million new positions added to payrolls in March. The median forecast was for 658,000 and…
Surprise! Mass Murder Rates Fell Right Along with Communism – WATCH
May 28, 2016 by
Recent American celebrity fetishism with Cuba and its Potemkin Kardashian Villages is probably giving a lot of millennials the mistaken impression that communism is A-OK. As it is often difficult to communicate concepts to them in words, the good people at Human Progress have provided a nice, easy-to-understand picture: While the chart doesn’t mention communism, […]
During Hiroshima Visit, Obama Laments How ‘Death Fell From the Sky’ in WWII
May 27, 2016 by
When President Obama announced he was going to be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, since the World War II nuclear bombing, critics wondered if it was just going to be another stop on his apology tour. They had reason to think that. Our commander-in-chief has felt the need to condemn Americans’ […]