CREDIT UNIONS VERSUS BANKS Dear Mary: What is the difference between a bank and a credit union? — Justina Dear Justina: Great question! A bank is a for-profit financial business run by paid board members that’s primary purpose is to make profits for the shareholders. A credit union is a nonprofit financial business that’s owned
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Mortgage rates are still twice what they were a year ago, but home prices have been falling since June, and that’s finally making consumers feel better about what had been an overheated, highly competitive housing market. A monthly housing sentiment index from Fannie Mae showed sentiment improving from November to December. The index is still
A six-year-old pupil who shot his teacher used a gun that belonged to his mother and was legally owned, police have said. Authorities said there was no fight or physical struggle before the boy opened fire on Abby Zwerner as she taught a lesson at a school in the US state of Virginia. Police chief
On Monday afternoon, CBS was given an exclusive that revealed that classified documents were found at President Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington D.C. After the amount of handwringing and nonstop negative coverage of the news that Trump had classified documents at his home in Mar-a-Lago, you would think the media
The fight between House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (D-Calif.) and right-wing Republicans is not over. In fact, we can expect that war to continue every time there’s a significant vote in the House. I’m going to keep a private tote board on how many times one of the rebels threatens to offer a motion to
Democratic mayors of two self-declared “sanctuary cities” are demanding that Colorado stop sending migrants because their social services are already overwhelmed. The letter to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, from Mayors Lori Lightfoot and Eric Adams was first reported by Bill Melugin of Fox News. Polis had announced that Colorado was busing migrants
Former President Donald Trump is calling for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other GOP senators who vote with him to face primary challengers. California Republican Kevin McCarthy secured the House speakership last week after a days-long process that included more than a dozen votes before McCarthy, who had been backed by Trump,
On CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, senior political commentator Scott Jennings slammed President Joe Biden over his reportedly mishandling classified documents at his private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington D.C. What made this revelation especially rich was the fact that Biden was so outraged at former President Trump allegedly having documents marked classified
The House of Representatives on Monday evening voted 221-210 to repeal funding for 87,000 IRS agents. The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ gave $79.6 billion to the IRS over the next 10 years. The Wall Street Journal said the new army of IRS agents will target the middle and upper-middle class. According to new analysis, the
The new Republican-controlled House approved a sweeping rules package Monday night that could rein in the bureaucracy, control government spending, and put the top lawmaker’s leadership in jeopardy. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., gained the top post in the House early Saturday after 15 rounds of voting over four days, but made concessions to pull
Border enforcement will return to a “status quo” following the president’s visit to El Paso, Texas, Sunday, current and former Border Patrol officials told the Daily Caller News Foundation. President Joe Biden didn’t see the full scope of the border crisis because federal authorities were instructed to ramp up enforcement, Retired Deputy Patrol Agent in
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bob Iger poses with Mickey Mouse attends Mickey’s 90th Spectacular at The Shrine Auditorium on October 6, 2018 in Los Angeles. Valerie Macon | AFP | Getty Images Disney CEO Bob Iger told hybrid employees on Monday they must return to corporate offices four days
The entire community of Montecito and surrounding canyons have been ordered to evacuate after California was hits by severe storms. The evacuation order, affecting about 10,000 people, came on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 and destroyed more than 100 homes in the coastal enclave. Montecito is home to a host of
President Biden’s visit to the border in El Paso was greeted by liberal media operatives in two noticeable ways. Either they sympathized with Biden’s work on this “complex” issue, or — like NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep — they asked Team Biden “why” they would tell people not to come to America and cross
Just made available on streaming, The Menu is one of those tastiest of treats: a smart movie that might be almost as smart as it thinks it is. I needed a palate cleanser after watching that big, stupid mess called Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and the staff at the fictional Hawthorn restaurant served
A man disabled a large solar power plant in Las Vegas, Nevada, by setting his car on fire after breaking into the facility, according to police. Las Vegas Metro police said they were called to the Mega Solar Array facility on Wednesday at about 11:30 a.m. after employees found a car smoldering in a generator
Lynette Hardaway of “Diamond and Silk” fame has passed away, according to former President Donald Trump and posts on the duo’s social media pages. Hardaway, known as “Diamond,” and Rochelle Richardson, known as “Silk,” are sisters who composed the dynamic duo known for being outspoken conservatives and staunch supporters of former President Donald Trump. “Really
CNN This Morning took a surprisingly skeptical stance on President Biden’s failure to meet any migrants during his border visit yesterday. Kaitlin Collins delivered the segment and noted: “During a tightly-controlled visit to El Paso, Biden met with border patrol officers, lawmakers, and local officials. But he didn’t appear to actually meet with any of
Where are the machine-gun toting agents? The Justice Department is looking into classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President discovered at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in DC. According to CNN, Joe Biden’s attorneys discovered the classified documents in the private office which included top-secret files with the “sensitive
You expect your money to be safe in a bank, but if the Federal Reserve gets its way, that may not be the case soon. That’s because the Fed, which has a tremendous amount of regulatory power over the nation’s financial institutions, has begun using its authority to put politics before fiscal stability. If the
Dozens of Chinese warplanes and four ships conducted massive combat drills, the first of 2023, around Taiwan into the early hours of Monday, according to the defense ministries of China and Taiwan. The exercises, which began Sunday, focused on testing Chinese naval and aerial forces’ ability to complete joint assaults and “resolutely counter the collusive and provocative
In this article BBBY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pedestrian walks by a Bed Bath and Beyond store in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images When Bed Bath & Beyond leaders speak to investors Tuesday morning, they won’t simply report sales and earnings results. They will have to address a stark
The US president Joe Biden has declared an emergency in California after the state was hit by severe winter weather. There were thunderstorms, snow and powerful winds in California on Sunday, with the National Weather Service warning of a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” – storms consisting of long plumes of moisture stretching out into
Seemingly on the side of criminals, ABC’s Good Morning America was appalled on Monday after they learned that an armed good Samaritan in Houston, Texas shot and killed an armed robber who was holding up an entire restaurant. They portrayed the hero as ducking police and the source of the fear in the restaurant that
In an effort to “honor women everywhere who are flipping the status quo,” Mars, the company that makes M&Ms, has announced plans to introduce new “all-female” packaging for a limited time. “We’re celebrating women who are flipping the status quo, transforming the world around them to make it a more colorful and welcoming place for
New York Times reporter Michael Shear left top White House officials frazzled after confronting them about the Biden administration’s dismal record on immigration. What is the background? On Thursday, Biden announced new immigration policies meant to address the ongoing border crisis. The plan includes expanding a “parole” program meant to incentivize legal immigration. On the
The Biden administration’s Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering a nationwide ban on gas-burning stoves following a new study that claimed the appliances emit harmful pollution that has been linked to asthma in children, Bloomberg reported. According to the EPA and the World Health Organization, gas-burning stoves emit unsafe levels of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide,
Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume lambasted CBS News’ 60 Minutes for propping up the debunked babblings of overpopulation-obsessed climate fanatic Paul Ehrlich. Hume rebuked CBS as a network for having gone the way of the “woke mob” by breathing new life into Ehrlich’s propaganda during the Jan. 5 edition of Fox Business Tonight
There is nothing so unnerving as government-initiated election fraud, perpetrated by both political parties, hiding in plain sight. This is the world we live in — the one Republicans are about to encounter. The most basic ingredient for industrial-scale voter fraud is the voter roll, fat with phantom names and addresses. Someone may be able to transport 250,000
America is suffering from a pandemic that is not a virus, it “is a pandemic of fatherlessness.” That’s according to Pastor Kris Vallotton, author of the new book “Uprising: The Epic Battle for the Most Fatherless Generation in History.” “Fifty-one percent of all children in America right now are born out of wedlock, 51%,” Vallotton,