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California Democrats passed a bill in the State Senate that would provide up to $150,000 in home loans for illegal aliens who are first-time home buyers in the state.

The Paris criminal court has released details on the arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, who was taken into custody on August 24 in connection with a cybercrime investigation.

The official state news agency of Afghanistan, under the control of the ruling Taliban, claimed in a report on Monday that the United Nations Political Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) was working to “facilitate small-scale projects through loan provisions” in a now-deleted article.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor certain Covid-related content in 2021, including “human and satire,” expressing regret for not being more outspoken against the government’s actions.

Vice President Kamala Harris has been leading the country alongside President Joe Biden for three and a half years, but while their party is attempting to sell a message of “joy,” the reality is quite different. Rent has gone up 22 percent since Biden and Harris took office in January 2021.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would be “reducing the number” of “temporary foreign workers” in the country.

Running on “joy” might not be a winning formula for Democrats in a political environment in which inflation is still the most pressing issue facing voters.

Dozens of flight attendants across several airlines have blown the whistle on low wages and dire living situations as unions attempt to get them better pay, the Washington Post revealed Monday.

This August marks the fifth anniversary of the Business Roundtable’s redefinition of the purpose of a corporation to serve “stakeholders” (think BLM, the LBGTQ+ agenda, and more) shifting American businesses leftward, and diluting the lifeblood of successful enterprises — making products that people want to buy, ensuring those products are of high quality, earning a profit, and delivering robust shareholder return.

Tim Sheehy slammed Jon Tester for voting with Kamala Harris “100 percent of the time” but being a “Bible-thumping Republican” in Montana.

Bank of China (BOC) Vice-Chairman and President Liu Jin resigned without warning on Sunday, only five months after he was reappointed.

Americans are having a hard time finding the “joy” and “hope” Democrats have touted, as they struggle to pay their bills due to inflation.

California Democrats are proposing to give $150,000 in home loans to first-time home buyers who are illegal aliens.

Unexpected weakness in a key economic bellwether.

In a major blow to Boeing’s space ambitions, NASA has decided to bring home two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) using a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, abandoning the original plan to use Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule due to ongoing technical issues.

The World Bank has halted all paid advertising on Elon Musk’s X after CBS News accused the social media platform of promoting ads under racist content.

Multiple electric trucks were damaged on Saturday night when flames erupted at electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian’s plant in Normal, Illinois, authorities said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Former President Donald Trump warned that if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected president things “will get 100 times worse,” adding that she would “implement soviet style price controls.”

Multiple Democrat lawmakers are quietly telling allies worried about Vice President Kamala Harris’s controversial grocery price-control plan that the proposal will die in Congress, Politico revealed.

Americans are struggling to take care of their pets as inflation continues hurting the nation under Joe Biden’s leadership, a survey shows.

In a leaked internal recording, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman suggests that most developers may not be coding in the near future as AI revolutionizes the software development landscape.

Shan Hanes, the former CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank in Elkhart, Kansas, has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for embezzling $47 million from the bank and sending it to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who tricked him with a “Pig butchering” scheme.

A taxpayer-funded Portland, Oregon, organization is offering extensive down payment assistance for new homebuyers in the state — but they must be non-U.S. citizens, a new report revealed.

Cutting rates too quickly could lead to a resurgence of inflation, forcing the Fed into a tighter monetary policy stance down the road.

The Canadian government finally took action to resolve the railroad labor crisis on Friday, ordering Canadian National Railway (CN), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), and the Teamsters union to accept mediation by a third party.

Former President Donald Trump holds an event to discuss his proposal to eliminate taxes on tips in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday, August 23.

Democrats this week touted their theme of “joy” at their convention, which took place in Chicago this week, but there is nothing joyful about Americans having to pay 14 percent more for airfare in the Biden-Harris America.

Yoshua Bengio, one of the “Godfathers of AI,” worries that regulators may be running out of time to properly govern the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence.

Americans are struggling with the reality of the price of electricity jumping 32 percent under the leadership of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — a great irony, as Democrats this week celebrated their theme of “joy” at their convention while Americans are miserable paying their bills.

Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” host Joe Kernen and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) debated Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy suggestion of implementing price controls during a 20-minute contentious interview.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is sending a team of investigators to examine a crash and subsequent battery fire involving a Tesla semi-truck on a California freeway, focusing on the fire risks posed by electric vehicle batteries.

Senior NASA officials will convene on Saturday to determine whether Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is safe enough to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth from the International Space Station.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) told Breitbart News that Republicans will be ready to execute Donald Trump’s no tax on tips policy immediately.

Powell says Fed needs to cut to prevent further weakening of the labor market.

Vice President Kamala Harris attacked the idea of placing United States tariffs on foreign imports to favor domestic producers during her speech at the Democrat National Convention (DNC).

Tariffs tend to be paid for by exporters and importers, not consumers.