Perhaps someday public officials and/or plaintiffs’ attorneys peering into the woes hobbling the manufactured housing industry will consider if emails like the one below from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) violated RICO. The Jeffrey Grell law firm says under the heading: “Mail and Wire Fraud. The extensive use of RICO in the civil context is almost solely attributable to the inclusion of mail and wire fraud as predicate acts.” (Italics and bold are added). Robert Helfand Law said similarly: “Wire fraud is a federal crime that involves any scheme to defraud another person or party by means of electronic communication.” A misuse of emails and websites can be among those “electronic communications” which can draw civil and/or criminal RICO charges. Per Troutman Pepper law: “the federal government does prosecute people for RICO using mail and wire fraud.” “Wire and mail fraud generally involves defrauding or attempting to defraud someone of money or property through using some form of interstate communication,” according to the Carmichael, Ellis & Brock law firm.
Top MHI corporate board, staff, and attorneys were asked once again on 12.7.2023 to respond to recent or previous reports on MHProNews and/or MHLivingNews. As regular, detail-minded readers here know, from time-to-time MHProNews asks MHI top staff, corporate leaders and/or their attorneys to provide feedback on published reports. In the request yesterday, that included the report on production related information linked here, the billions being spent on 3D printed housing and/or factory-built housing alternatives to manufactured housing linked here, and the deep dive critique of MHI linked here.
Among what MHI leaders were provided for comments includes information from MHI a couple of weeks ago that compared what they claimed to other known facts and evidence. MHI leaderhip’s and legal mind’s answer for each of those topics and reports, as well as others? Silence.
That silence is despite the fact – or perhaps because of a strict understanding of what outside MHI attorney David P. Goch said in the quote here.
In their email earlier this week to manufactured housing industry members and others on that email list, MHI gives no actual data to nonmembers who received that email. It claimed under the headline “MHI Economic Report: Production Up, Shipments Down.”
That’s arguably classic paltering, posturing, and propaganda. How can production be ‘up’ but shipments down? In MHI’s worldview, you must buy an MHI membership in order to find out. See for yourself further below in Part I.
In that section of their email, MHI doesn’t say ‘where’ production is ‘up.’ Is it up in certain states, but not others? Or is it up in some technical sense? Because year over year, manufactured home production is down. Perhaps MHI leaders hope those readers don’t get emails from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), which provides that information monthly free of charge, as has MHProNews. More on that and other topics from MHI’s email shown in Part I will be unpacked in Part II.
But in fairness to MHI, and for the ease of our readers getting the ‘full context’ of MHI’s remarks on 12.6.2023, here are the first elements of their message.
Part I – MHI Email Dated 12.6.2023
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MHI’s email also included a pitch for their for a fee (you or an organization paid for) “education” as well as their for a fee events. As the MHI form 990 reveals, MHI events are a revenue generating center for the Arlington, VA based national manufactured housing trade organization. Note that showing MHI content is NOT an endorsement of the organization. Some links have been modified in the above, but the text is as emailed by MHI.
Part II – Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary
On 12.4.2023, MHARR said the following. “Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 8,393 new homes in October 2023, a 3.4% decrease from the 8,649 new HUD Code homes produced in October 2022. Cumulative production for 2023 is now 75,040 homes, a 23.8% decrease from the 98,506 homes produced over the same period during 2022.”
On 11.3.2023 MHARR stated: “statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,955 new homes in September 2023, a 15.2% decrease from the 9,381 new HUD Code homes produced in September 2022. Cumulative production for 2023 is now 66,647 homes, a 25.7% decrease from the 89,812 homes produced over the same period during 2022.”
In normal English and typical mathematics, MHI’s claims of “Production Up” might be thought to imply that production is up “nationally” as they are a “national” trade organization, as they themselves state on 12.7.2023 on the home page of their recently revised website. “The Manufactured Housing Institute is the only national trade organization representing all segments of the factory-built housing industry. We are your trusted partner, advocate and industry leader.” But the first sentence before those two and those pesky facts above and that will follow contradict this MHI homepage claim: “Elevating Housing Innovation; Expanding Attainable Homeownership.”
But if homeownership were ‘expanding,’ as their tag line suggests, then why is national manufactured housing production falling?
If you happen to be an MHI member and/or are at an event where they happen to be, and you are feeling brave enough, why not ask one or more of them at a manufactured housing event or meeting? If you can, record the Q&A, and let us know what they tell you.
MHARR is not in the misdirection or deception business. MHARR provides facts, MHARR leaders share evidence, and then MHARR leaders take facts, evidence, the law and clearly draw reasonable conclusions.
MHARR is led by an attorney, Mark Weiss, J.D. They know what words mean, because the law can often turn on the meaning or phrasing of a law, as the examples of RICO definitions by several attorneys at the top of this article illustrate in abusing emails for the purpose of defrauding or other illicit purposes.
MHARR said last month that September 2023 data: “indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,955 new homes” while October statistics: “statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 8,393 new homes.” Sequentially, that is “up.” Perhaps that is what MHI meant by “production is up” in their email? But then note that MHARR factually noted observed: “October 2023, a 3.4% decrease from the 8,649 new HUD Code homes produced in October 2022.” (Emphasis added by MHProNews).
Hold those thoughts on production and shipments, and let’s press on to other elements in MHI’s 12.6.2023 email.
To grasp the significance of their email’s pitch for Clayton and CrossMods® consider, the following facts.
Over a dozen years before those CrossMods® homes were placed in Atlanta, GA, HUD produced a federally commissioned report on manufactured homes that were installed in several urban areas in different parts of the United States. The photo below is not of a so-called CrossMod® home, rather it is a typical manufactured home, what MHARR sometimes refers to in the post-CrossMod® era as a ‘mainstream’ manufactured home. Stop and think from a perspective of maximizing manufactured housing sales, which are so tepid and apparently embarrassing that MHI didn’t dare state the facts clearly in their 12.6.2023 email. Which is more important? To get an MHI-dominating Clayton made – and far costlier – CrossMod home placed in Atlanta? Or is it more important to get potentially hundreds of thousands of manufactured homes, single section (like the one below) or multiple section ones placed in urban areas across the U.S.?
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CrossMods® sales are so low that their advocates won’t give the total number of CrossMods® sold since the program launched some 6 years ago. There are indications that the total number of CrossMods® sold in that time is perhaps 100 (+/-) throughout the country. To put it into perspective, during a time when some 600,000 HUD Code manufactured homes were sold nationally, maybe 100 CrossMod® homes were sold. That’s a terrible outcome, and clearly contradicts what MHI claimed on the subject when they launched and promoted it. Indeed, MHI itself admitted that the program was failing in critical ways in a letter obtained and published by MHProNews, see the report linked below.
As a senior level executive for an MHI member firm told MHProNews, “I see no traction in the program.”
It doesn’t matter how many times MHI CEO Lesli Gooch, Ph.D., or MHI President Mark Bowersox, may sit in front of a screen for a photo op or video which has the image of a CrossMods® on it. Such attempts at illusion don’t change the reality that the CrossMods® program is failing. MHProNews predicted trouble years ago in our “Trojan Horse” report. Yet, MHI corporate and senior staff leaders keep pushing it. Why?
Perhaps one of the strongest critiques of CrossMods® didn’t come from MHARR, MHProNews, or MHLivingNews. It came from the Modular Home Builders Association and their executive director Tom Hardiman.
The reports that we published on CrossMods® over the years have stood the test of time, as has much of the critique by Hardiman or MHARR. But MHI keeps pushing it. Look again at some pull quotes from what MHI said. Look too at the video they linked, which MHProNews in their email above, linked to their YouTube page. As of 5:08 AM on 12.8.2023, there are only 276 views on that Clayton-CrossMod® video.
The sinister nature of paltering is that every word of a subject may be true, and yet it can still be misleading. Paltering is a notion that every manufactured home professional, indeed every American, should become completely aware of, because paltering – per Harvard – is becoming all too common in politics, business, and advocacy. While MHI is claiming in their 12.6.2023 email to be working to ‘stop’ the energy standards rule from going into effect, Clayton Homes in the video above is all but embracing that rule. Neither MHI’s email, nor Clayton’s video says what MHARR did in the exclusive Q&A with Danny Ghorbani and MHProNews on the topic. As a reminder, MHProNews exposed the fact that documents we obtained reveal that MHI negotiated with DOE to get the rule into effect! Would MHI have bothered to sue DOE absent MHARR and MHProNews’ consistent pushback and exposure of the issues?
When MHI is celebrating that a piece of legislation has moved out of a House committee, they fail to tell their readers that MHI proposed bills like this years ago that went nowhere (see report linked below). With a Democratic Senate a narrowly Republican House, and Democrat Joe Biden in the White House ready to veto it if a miracle occurred in Congress, is this bill that MHI is cheerleading likely to pass? Hardly. Once again, it is a claim that may be technically true in some respects, but it is a partial truth that in essence is being used in a deceptive and misleading manner.
By essentially fostering, allowing, or creating problems for the manufactured housing industry that they may later hope to solve, regulatory barriers become the de facto ally of consolidators at MHI. That is part of the nature of sabotaging monopolies. Who said? Among others, James A. “Jim” Schmitz Jr., a senior economic researcher for the Minneapolis Federal Reserve.
“It took me years and years to unravel the sabotage [of manufactured homes and factory-built housing] I have found,” said Schmitz.
Schmitz points to sabotage by those outside of the manufactured housing industry which in turn benefits those inside the manufactured housing industry that are steadily consolidating the business.
By grasping and being aware of the treacherous nature of paltering, posturing, projecting, and other devious methods of misleading, some of the “deception and misdirection” tactics deployed by various elements inside MHI are better understood. Once they are better understood, those traps and pitfalls can be more readily avoided.
Let’s go back to how MHI and various leaders in that organization have talked up CrossMods® despite their years of ever-more apparent market failures. “Regulatory Barriers…” – the HUD report mentioned above about manufactured homes in urban settings, also featured this image. That’s a HUD Code manufactured home built years before CrossMods® and the MHI cheerleading for placement of 2 CrossMods® in Atlanta. Which is more important? To get access for ALL manufactured homes to be placed in urban infill opportunities? Or to only get a limited few CrossMods® available for that privilege? Which is more important? To get the less expensive manufactured homes placed where zoning barriers make it more difficult for HUD Code homes, or to get the most expensive manufactured homes placed?
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Their latest email above is once more an example of how arguably devious the minds of MHI leaders apparently can be.
But to put it in still brighter contrast, consider what Cavco Industries William Bill Boor, now the chairman, but then the Vice Chairman of MHI, told Congress last summer.
“HUD must strengthen preemption enforcement…and provide…transparent guidelines for compliance. Further, HUD must respond promptly and definitively whenever localities violate” enhanced preemption under the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000. That sounds almost like Mark Weiss at MHARR.
But there is a pragmatic problem with that argument by Boor, or by many others at MHI. It is this. MHARR offered to litigate this issue some 4 years ago. If MHI actually wants preemption robustly enforced, then why didn’t MHI jump at that opportunity? Why didn’t any MHI state association affiliates jump at that chance to join forces with MHARR to get ALL HUD Code manufactured homes – using enhanced federal preemption – available for placement in urban areas like Atlanta?
MHI can’t have it both ways. They can’t, as Boor expressed, claim to be for enhanced preemption enforcement while at the same time slyly ignoring opportunities to force HUD’s hand, and/or that of local jurisdictions. MHI can’t claim to want to help lower income blacks and others get their chance for a part of the American Dream, and when an opportunity to actually act upon a real case of helping an actual black family that wanted a manufactured home stifle that chance by ignoring it and sharing platitudes instead of concrete action.
This email is once again an apparent example of refined deception by MHI leaders at work. Nor will MHI likely challenge it.
Indeed, it is odd that MHI uses their legal tools to keep at bay the critics of their organization, instead of deploying those attorneys to litigate the regulatory issues that have kept the industry stuck in low gear throughout the 21st century.
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With such thoughts in mind, look again – or for the first time – at the reports linked herein, including those that follow below.
This isn’t garden variety ineptitude or ordinary corruption that appears to be at work at MHI. Rather, this seems to be a deft series of coldly calculated choices made by MHI leaders for a very specific intent, which is to benefit the insiders while slowly harming smaller business, much of the affordable home buying public, investors, taxpayers, and other stakeholders. More specifically, this pattern benefits consolidators. See the growing pile of evidence in the deep dive report linked below. Keep in mind that MHI leaders and their attorneys would not respond to that evidence, nor others published on MHProNews/MHLivingNews. Nor have MHI leaders responded to the opportunity to publicly debate their performance at an upcoming industry trade event. If MHI corporate and senior staff leaders are so darn sure of themselves, if they are so pure and good, then why won’t they be publicly accountable in front of an audience of manufactured home industry professionals? Perhaps there is too much evidence for them to refute? Perhaps they don’t want to be lynched by those they have harmed at the end of a public debate?
If it is their personal security that MHI leaders or attorneys are worried about, we’ll debate them online instead. Let it be pre-announced to the media, livestreamed, and moderated by an independent third party. What could they say to that?
As independent retailer Bob Crawford aptly noted, ‘If We Keep Doing What We’ve Been Doing We Will Keep Getting What We Got!’ See what Crawford suggested at that linked report. As a suggestion to those who truly want to wrap their minds around why manufactured housing is underperforming during an affordable housing crisis, read this article – or any of those linked/crosslinked – twice. The first time, get the quick impressions, the second time, check every fact and insights carefully. The picture will be clear once the details are grasped. That’s why we have advocated for litigation for years. The start of such needed litigation appears to be underway. More is necessary. Remember, odds are excellent you read that here first. ##
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Part III – is our Daily Business News on MHProNews stock market recap which features our business-daily at-a-glance update of over 2 dozen manufactured housing industry stocks.
This segment of the Daily Business News on MHProNews is the recap of yesterday evening’s market report, so that investors can see at glance the type of topics may have influenced other investors. Thus, our format includes our signature left (CNN Business) and right (Newsmax) ‘market moving’ headlines.
The macro market move graphics below provide context and comparisons for those invested in or tracking manufactured housing connected equities. Meaning, you can see ‘at a glance’ how manufactured housing connected firms do compared to other segments of the broader equities market.
In minutes a day readers can get a good sense of significant or major events while keeping up with the trends that are impacting manufactured housing connected investing.
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Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the morning of 12.7.2023
- CPSC issues several warnings for tiny magnetic balls after seven deaths
- The Cameo website on a laptop computer arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. Cameo, an app connecting customers to celebrities paid to record personalized messages, is in discussions to raise funds at a valuation of about $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images
- Russian propagandists exploited celebrity Cameo videos to spread disinformation, Microsoft says
- The Facebook logo is seen on a phone in this photo illustration in Washington, DC, on July 10, 2019.
- Meta rolls out encrypted messaging by default for Facebook and Messenger
- University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill reads her opening statement during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill on December 5 in Washington, DC.
- University of Pennsylvania board of trustees holds emergency meeting after president Liz Magill’s disastrous testimony
- American actor James Stewart (1908 – 1997) as Jefferson Smith in ‘Mr Smith Goes To Washington’, directed by Frank Capra, 1939.
- A new bedtime story voiced by Jimmy Stewart just in time for Christmas, 26 years after his death
- A large X logo is visible on the roof of X headquarters on July 31, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Just over 48 hours after a large X logo with bright pulsating lights was installed on the roof of X headquarters in San Francisco, workers dismantled the structure on Monday morning. The city of San Francisco opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the structure and residents in neighboring buildings complained of the sign’s bright strobe lights.
- Former Twitter head of information security claims he was fired after raising concerns about cost cuts at Elon Musk’s company
- The Adani Group’s solar power panel assembly plant in Mundra, India, on Oct. 27, 2022.
- India’s urban population is exploding. That could have huge consequences for the planet
- Left: Taylor Sheridan; right: Cole Hauser.
- ‘Yellowstone’ creator and actor battle over coffee company’s logo
- A for sale sign is posted outside a home in the Angelino Heights historical neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Oct. 19, 2023.
- Mortgage rates drop to lowest levels since August
- U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) participates in a Senate Finance Committee hearing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on March 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. Becerra testified on the FY2024 budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Foreign governments may be spying on your smartphone notifications, senator says
- Elon Musk demands Bob Iger ‘be fired’ after Disney pulled ads from X
- America is becoming a country of YIMBYs
- ‘Oppenheimer’ to be released in Japan after delay following ‘Barbenheimer’ controversy
- Why the US economy has powered ahead of other rich nations
- What to expect from Friday’s jobs report
- Recycling palm trees could cut methane emissions and create a green alternative to plywood
- The US shoplifting scourge is a lot of hype with little evidence
- Retail investors are sitting out the stock resurgence
- Trump and his allies are threatening retribution against the press. Their menacing words should not be ignored
- From the Boy Scouts to the Catholic Church, an upcoming Supreme Court ruling may mean some victims won’t see their day in court
- Hong Kong wants more business with Saudi Arabia. Here’s why
- Germany’s stock market just hit a new record high despite a faltering economy. What gives?
- China’s real estate crisis is coming for its massive shadow banks
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Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax 12.7.2023
- GOP Moving Against Silenced DOJ Staffers in Biden Inquiry
- House Republicans on Thursday put forth a resolution to authorize litigation against two Department of Justice tax division staffers who have been blocked from answering subpoenas to appear before the Judiciary Committee, according to a new report. [Full Story]
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- House Rules Panel to Meet Tuesday on Biden Impeachment
- Cruz to Newsmax: ‘Brazen’ Joe Biden Is Lying
- Fry to Newsmax: Evidence ‘So Clear’ for Vote
- Israel at War
- Netanyahu Warns Hezbollah After Israeli Killed
- Israel: UN Chief’s Tenure ‘Danger to World Peace’
- IDF Apologizes After Death of Lebanese Soldier
- Operation Israel Sends Millions in Gear to Front Lines
- Israel Increases Fuel Deliveries to Gaza After US Pressure
- AP Poll: Biden’s Dem Support Ticks Up on Israel-Hamas War
- Israeli Soldiers Find Hamas Weapon Depot by Gaza School
- Israel Strikes Hamas Terrorists Near Rafah Crossing
- UN Chief Uses Rare Power to Warn of Impending Gaza Crisis
- Putin Visiting UAE and Saudi Arabia to Boost Mideast Clout
- Blinken, Wang Discuss US Diplomatic Efforts in Middle East
- IDF Strikes 250 Terror Sites in Gaza as Battle Rages
- More Israel at War
- Ernst: Biden Aid Just ‘Throwing Money’ at Border
- Braun to Newsmax: Border Issue Will Litigate ’24 Election
- Blackburn: Americans Want Trump on Issues | video
- Rabbi Schonfeld: Hanukkah Marks Triumph of ‘Good Over Evil’
- Cramer: Border, Not Foreign Aid, Must Come First | video
- Cruz: ‘Brazen’ Joe Biden Is Lying
- Rabbi Menken: Celebrating Hanukkah an ‘Act of Resilience’
- Comer: ‘We Expect’ Hunter Biden to Comply | video
- Ukraine’s Yermak: US Aid Crucial to Win War | video
- Newsfront
- House Passes Resolution Against Student Loan Plan
- House Republicans on Thursday led the votes against a Biden administration student loan repayment option allowing loan forgiveness based on family size and income and allowing loan forgiveness for borrowers earning less than $15 an hour…. [Full Story]
- Pearl Harbor Attack Survivors Return 82 Years Later
- Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform [Full Story]
- Rules Panel to Meet Tuesday on Biden Impeachment
- The House Rules Committee is meeting Tuesday to move toward an [Full Story]
- Fox News Ratings Collapse as Newsmax+ Soars
- After the firing of Tucker Carlson and the network’s effort to stop [Full Story]
- WH Spokesperson Talks Islamophobia on Hanukkah Question
- When asked this week about Hanukkah – which starts at midnight Friday [Full Story]
- Experts: Trump Wins Debate Again in Absentia
- Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, the fourth of the [Full Story]
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- Nikki Haley’s Momentum Makes Her a Target at Debate
- Takeaways From Fourth Republican Presidential Debate
- Insults Fly as Final GOP Debate Descends Into Chaos
- CDC Issues Health Alert for Subtype of Mpox Virus
- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a [Full Story]
- Bud Light Tries to Revive ‘Shattered’ Brand After ‘Woke’ Turn
- Even a new ad campaign featuring a pair of popular NFL Hall of Famers [Full Story] | Platinum Article
- CNN to Host 2 GOP Primary Debates in January
- CNN will host two GOP primary debates in January: one at Drake [Full Story]
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- Criticism of RNC Chair McDaniel Grows
- Ukraine’s Danube Port Hit by Russian Drones, 1 Killed
- A driver was killed and grain infrastructure damaged by a Russian [Full Story]
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- Ukraine’s Yermak: US Aid Crucial to Win War |video
- Ukraine Suffering Power Deficit Due to Cold Weather
- Yermak Seeks Hungarian Meeting Over Ukraine’s EU Membership
- Russia: Biden Demonizing Us; Ukraine to Be US’s ‘Second Vietnam’
- GOP Initiates Action on DOJ Staffers Kept From Testifying
- House Republicans on Thursday put forth a resolution to authorize [Full Story] | video
- China Trying to Sink US in Race for New Submarines
- China is working to enhance its submarine force amid ongoing U.S. [Full Story] | Platinum Article
- Cramer Says Son Involved in Deadly Police Crash
- Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., says his son was taken into custody [Full Story]
- GOP’s Georgia Congressional Map Passes State House
- A Georgia special session to redraw congressional and legislative [Full Story]
- Trump in Court as Expert Denies Evidence of Accounting Fraud
- Former President Donald Trump returned to his New York civil fraud [Full Story]
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- Sports Illustrated Execs Fired After AI Scandal
- Sports Illustrated publisher The Arena Group fired its president and [Full Story] | video
- Texas Judge Permits 20-Week Abortion Outside Law
- A Texas judge Thursday granted a pregnant woman permission to obtain [Full Story]
- Conservatives Sue Biden Admin. Over Censorship
- A new lawsuit headed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and three [Full Story]
- Hern Endorses Donald Trump for President
- Republican Study Committee Chair Kevin Hern, R-Okla., threw his [Full Story]
- House Votes to Censure Bowman for Pulling Fire Alarm
- House members voted again Thursday to punish one of their own, [Full Story]
- White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs
- The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on [Full Story]
- Chip Roy Calls for Harvard President’s Resignation
- The House Republicans’ calls for Harvard President Claudine Gay to [Full Story] | video
- 1-Day Record Set for Migrant Crossings at Border
- More than 12,000 migrants crossed over the U.S. southern border – [Full Story]
- Vegas Shooter Who Killed 3 Had Applied for UNLV Job
- Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as [Full Story]
- Fmr Polish President Walesa, 80, Has Severe COVID
- Lech Walesa, Poland’s 80-year-old former president and Nobel Peace [Full Story]
- Yankees Get Juan Soto in Blockbuster Baseball Trade
- The New York Yankees acquired Juan Soto and Gold Glove center fielder [Full Story]
- Meta to Fully Encrypt Messages on Facebook, Messenger
- Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it has started to roll out [Full Story]
- Meta Oversight Board to Examine Hamas War Content
- Meta’s independent Oversight Board said Thursday it will review how [Full Story]
- Christie Zings DeSantis for Dodging on US Hostages in Gaza
- Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticized Florida Gov. Ron [Full Story] | video
- Insults Fly as Final GOP Debate Descends Into Chaos
- Chaos descended early and seldom let up during the fourth and final [Full Story]
- House Blocks Rule on Tailpipe Emissions as Biden Back-Door EV Mandate
- House Republicans approved a bill Wednesday to block strict new [Full Story]
- Finance
- Supreme Court Ponders Meaning of ‘Income’ in Tax Dispute
- The Supreme Court is set Tuesday to consider a challenge to the legality of a tax targeting owners of foreign corporations that could undermine efforts at imposing a wealth tax on the very rich…. [Full Story]
- House Passes Resolution Against Biden Student Loan Plan
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- Wall Street Mixed Ahead New Jobs Data, Upcoming Fed Meeting
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- Health
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- Arthritis Drug Effective Against New Type 1 Diabetes
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- FDA Approves Less-Invasive Blood Draw Device
- Earlier Periods Increase Risk for Diabetes, Stroke
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