Amid wider economic uncertainty, some analysts have said that businesses are at a "no-hire, no fire" standstill. That's caused many to limit new work to only a few specific roles, if not pause openings entirely. At the same time, sizable layoffs have continued to pile up - raising worker anxieties across sectors. Some companies have pointed to rising operational costs spanning from U.S. President Donald Trump's barrage of new tariffs and shifts in consumer spending.
Recently, several U.S. states passed laws requiring strong age verification for adult content online. Now, lawmakers in Wisconsin and Michigan are pushing the envelope even further. Not only do their new bills demand age checks-they require adult content sites to block access from any VPN provider, for any user, not just minors. On Security Now, Steve Gibson explained that these bills stem from concerns that residents are using VPNs to evade new state-level restrictions by appearing to connect from somewhere else.
I think for housing to continue growing successfully, it has to be led by our towns, it has to be led by our first selectmen, it has to be led by our mayors, Lamont said at a news conference. I just don't think it works if it's us against them. After months of negotiations, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and Council of Small Towns backed the new bill alongside the governor.
The plan has three main components: removing barriers to construction, boosting affordable home production and reducing other housing-related costs. As a remedy, CAP is suggesting reformation to local zoning laws, incentives to local jurisdictions to approve more housing, and expansion of modular and manufactured housing. The federal government can't make you change your zoning requirements, so we designed a program to create strong incentives and disincentives to get more and more communities to undertake the actions to make it faster to build, Negron said.
He argued in a 23-page filing that the matters at issue were fundamentally federal, not state, in nature. He cited Special Counsel Jack Smith's decision in late 2024 to withdraw federal charges against Trump after his return to office, saying: "If Special Counsel Jack Smith, with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal concluded that prosecution would be fruitless, then I too find that, despite the available evidence, pursuing the prosecution would be equally unproductive."
We need some expertise here. A lot of speculation can go several different ways right now. This happened in our nation's capital. It happened near the White House. It seems to be very brash and bold kind of an attack of some sort. We don't know anything about motive. But tell us about going into a holiday, the type of intelligence we're gathering, what we're seeing, Jones began, introducing Sexton a former CIA and NYPD officer.
REPORTER: So when it comes to ceding land to Russia, is that still on the table, or has that changed? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, they're talking about going land both ways and trying to clean up a border. You know, you can't go through the middle of a house. You can't get through the middle of the highway. So they're trying to work something. It's a complicated process. Doesn't go that quickly.
The mismatch stems from the way COLAs are calculated. Currently, the SSA bases annual increases on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), a measure designed around the spending habits of younger, urban workers. An alternative measure, the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E) weights housing, health care and utilities more heavily and would have produced a 3.1% increase in 2026 instead of 2.8%, according to Investopedia.
Rep. Mike Levin, D-San Juan Capistrano, called on his colleagues in Congress to pass legislation he has introduced that would prevent new leasing for the exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in federal waters along the Southern California coast, from San Diego to the northern border of San Luis Obispo County. We're going to continue to fight this legislatively and legally, and from a communications perspective and any other tools that we've got in the toolkit, Levin said.
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