Neptune’s record tax hike another example of Phil Murphy’s school funding failure
NEPTUNE, NJ — Senate Republican Budget Officer Declan O’Scanlon is calling Neptune’s largest-ever property tax increase the direct result of Democratic leadership in Trenton slashing school aid and imposing funding caps. O’Scanlon…
Biden DHS Asking Border Patrol To Record ‘Altercations’ With Texas Law Enforcement, DCNF Reporter Reveals
Biden DHS Asking Border Patrol To Record ‘Altercations’ With Texas Law Enforcement, DCNF Reporter Reveals Harold Hutchison on January 19, 2024 Border Patrol agents have been asked to utilize body-worn cameras to…
S&P 500 hits record intra-day high driven by chipmakers, megacaps
(Reuters) -The S&P 500 hit an intra-day record high on Friday for the first time in two years, powered by gains in chipmakers and heavyweight technology stocks on optimism around artificial intelligence…
Spelman College receives $100 million gift, a record for historically Black schools
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Atlanta’s Spelman College has received a $100 million gift from one of the school’s trustees and her husband, in what Spelman called the largest single donation ever…
Record $1.75 Million Jersey Cash 5 Jackpot Won in Passaic County
TRENTON, NJ – A stroke of luck has hit Passaic County with a single ticket winning the massive $1,754,700 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot. The winning numbers for the Saturday, January 13 drawing…
Ohio Man Aims for Pinball Marathon Record
HAMILTON, OH – Jim Foliano, executive director of Ticket to Hope, is in the midst of a Guinness World Record attempt by playing pinball for a projected 63 consecutive hours. His endeavor…
87-Year-Old Paddles to Record Along Mississippi River
LULING, LA – Dale Sanders, nicknamed “Grey Beard,” set a Guinness World Record as the oldest person to paddle the entire length of the Mississippi River. Sanders, 87, completed the 87-day expedition,…
Embraer sees record agriculture plane deliveries this year
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian planemaker Embraer expects its agricultural aircraft Ipanema to hit record deliveries this year after a positive 2023 driven by the strength of the country’s…
Record budget for Gates Foundation as wider global health funding stalls
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend more this year than ever before — $8.6 billion — as wider health funding for the lowest…
Grifols shares suffer worst week on record after short-seller report
MADRID (Reuters) – Shares in Spanish pharma firm Grifols dropped another 10% on Friday, bringing their weekly loss to nearly 40% after short-seller Gotham City Research accused the Barcelona-based business of manipulating…
US scientists say one-in-three chance 2024 another year of record heat
By Gloria Dickie TORONTO (Reuters) – This year has a one-in-three chance of being even hotter than 2023, which was already the world’s hottest on record, scientists from the U.S. National Oceanic…
China-Russia 2023 trade value hits record high of $240 billion – Chinese customs
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s 2023 two-way trade with Russia hit $240 billion, setting yet another new record, Chinese customs data showed on Friday, as the two countries pushed for closer economic ties…
US power prices soar ahead of extreme cold and record natgas demand
By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) – Frigid weather moving into the central U.S. will boost natural gas demand to record highs early next week, according to analysts forecasts, putting power and gas prices…
China’s Dec new yuan loans seen higher, hitting record in 2023: Reuters poll
BEIJING (Reuters) – New bank loans in China likely rose in December, bringing 2023 lending to a new record high, a Reuters poll showed, as the central bank keeps policy accommodative to…
Investors kick off 2024 with $123 billion record cash shift -BofA
By Lucy Raitano LONDON (Reuters) – Investors ploughed $123.1 billion into cash in the seven days to Wednesday, marking the largest such inflow since March 2023 and a record for the first…
Volvo Cars posts record annual sales but shares still dip
HELSINKI (Reuters) -Volvo Cars sold a record number of vehicles in 2023, it said on Friday, boosted by electric car demand and stabilising supply chains, but its growth rate eased towards the…
Alejandro Mayorkas Claims Biden Admin Has Removed ‘Record Number’ Of Illegal Immigrants — But There’s A Problem
Alejandro Mayorkas Claims Biden Admin Has Removed ‘Record Number’ Of Illegal Immigrants — But There’s A Problem Harold Hutchison on January 4, 2024 Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that…
Australia struggles to ditch SUV habit even as electric vehicle sales hit record
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Electric vehicle (EV) sales in Australia hit an all-time high in 2023, according to the country’s automotive association, however light vehicle sales remained dominated by emissions-intensive…
Bond ETFs draw in record $300 billion in 2023 – BlackRock
LONDON (Reuters) – Bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) gathered an annual record of $300 billion of assets under management in 2023, BlackRock said on Wednesday, as investors were lured in by the highest…
Record half-million migrants crossed Latin America’s dangerous Darien Gap in 2023
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – A record 520,000 migrants crossed the treacherous jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap in 2023, more than double the number reported the year before,…
Brazil’s record trade surplus tough to sustain after import slump
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s record 2023 trade surplus may be tough to repeat this year, private economists and government officials agree, as falling interest rates are expected to boost…
Marketmind: S&P 500 record in view as 2024 begins in same vein
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets by Samuel Indyk A rollercoaster 2023 that ended with an equity rally on hopes for rate cuts amid slowing inflation has…
Gold to enter 2024 with sights set on record highs
By Deep Kaushik Vakil (Reuters) -Gold investors anticipate record high prices next year, when the fundamentals of a dovish pivot in U.S. interest rates, continued geopolitical risk, and central bank buying are…
US overnight funding rate hits record high amid year-end volatility
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – A gauge measuring the borrowing costs on loans between banks and other participants in the U.S. repurchase agreement (repo) market hit its highest level since…
Joe Biden on Vacation 39% of Time in Office, Shattering Record for Modern Presidents
WASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden recently marked his 418th vacation day, opting to spend New Year’s in the U.S. Virgin Islands. According to the Republican National Committee’s Vacation Tracker, this accounts…
Gold to enter 2024 with sights set on record highs
By Deep Kaushik Vakil (Reuters) – Gold investors anticipate record high prices next year, when the fundamentals of a dovish pivot in U.S. interest rates, continued geopolitical risk, and central bank buying…
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