(Bloomberg) — UK consumer confidence improved for a third consecutive month to the strongest level in 2 1/2 years, reflecting a rosier economic outlook ahead of the general election. Most Read from Bloomberg The market research firm GfK Ltd. said its measure of sentiment climbed 3 points to minus 14 in June, stronger than the […]
Jun. 15—NEW LONDON — For one local advocacy group, the affordable housing crisis is comparable to a severely bleeding patient: while it’s necessary to staunch the blood flow, it’s just as critical to find and address the cause of the injury. A pair of newly announced “systemic change” grants awarded by the New London-based Community […]
(Bloomberg) — The Panama Canal has managed to ward off a shipping crisis that threatened to upend $270 billion a year in global trade. It did so with careful water management — and a little bit of luck. Most Read from Bloomberg As parched conditions gripped the Central American country last year, the Panama Canal […]
As a leading infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci was thrust into a leadership role during the Covid-19 pandemic and experienced volatile treatment from Donald Trump during his presidency, Fauci wrote in his new memoir. Trump would “announce that he loved me and then scream at me on the phone,” Fauci wrote of the abusive […]
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — The family of a man who was shot and killed by Fairfax County police during a mental health crisis has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. 26-year-old Aaron Lynch was killed in July 2022 after police responded to multiple calls describing Lynch experiencing a crisis. The suit, filed in […]
The California Coastal Commission Thursday said a soon-to-be-published report alleging it has worsened the affordable housing crisis has “profoundly dishonest and offensive” claims. Circulate San Diego, a Southern California think thank, asserts in a study to be published Friday that the commission has worsened the affordable housing crisis, and “has made the coast the least […]
The bathrooms in Ben McLane’s barracks haven’t worked for the last three years. It’s just one of several “embarrassing” problems with the living quarters offered by the US government to the federal fire captain’s poorly paid crew. Along with having to rely on portable toilets, this season his firefighters have also had to grapple with […]
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – The City of East St. Louis is heading towards a financial crisis due to its ongoing battle with the police department. The Police Pension Board met Tuesday and voted to send paperwork to the state comptroller to take millions of city dollars. There are millions of dollars owed to the […]
The presence of a Russian military flotilla passing by South Florida and conducting military exercises just miles from the coast is evoking for some the 13 days of white-knuckle tension in October 1962 when the Soviet Union placed nuclear weapons in Cuba, right at the doorstep of the United States. What become known as the […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the country’s civil war increasingly disrupts trade and livelihoods. World Bank economists estimate the country’s economy grew at a 1% annual pace in the year that ended in March, more slowly than earlier expected, according to a report i ssued […]
NEWBERG, Ore. (KOIN) — As the Newberg School District reels from an unexpected budget hole this year and a significant budget shortfall for next year, Superintendent Dr. Stephen Phillips will be on leave for at least the next few months. But at a meeting Tuesday night, the board announced former Newberg Superintendent Dr. Paula Radich […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Soon after the polls closed on Tuesday evening mayoral candidate Shelley Berkley started out leading the race coming in with 38% of the vote and Victoria Seaman with 27% of the vote. “I’m thrilled and very appreciative to all of the voters that cast their vote, not only for me but […]