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Map details where the minimum wage is — and isn’t — increasing in 2025
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Map details where the minimum wage is — and isn’t — increasing in 2025

By Addy Bink | Fox 31 News, via The Hill While the federal minimum wage has been unchanged since 2009, more than 20 states are set to see an increase in 2025. After the new rates take effect, nearly a dozen states will have minimum hourly wages at or above $15 statewide. Another 21 states will see no increase. And in all but one, the minimum wage matches or falls below the federal rate of $7.25 an hour. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31
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Hanukkah starts on Christmas this year, a relatively rare confluence of religious holidays
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Hanukkah starts on Christmas this year, a relatively rare confluence of religious holidays

By Debbie Kelley | The Gazette The glow from Christmas tree bulbs will shine with the brightness of menorah candles on Wednesday. For the first time in 19 years, two important religious holidays coincide on Dec. 25: Christmas, which always falls on that day to mark the birth of the Christian savior Jesus Christ, and the sundown start of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, in which light overcomes darkness with the rededication of Jerusalem’s liberated temple in the second century. The holidays don't often align like stars in the sky; the last time Hanukkah began on Christmas was in 2005. To most Jews, there’s no significance to the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars intersecting, according to Jeff Ader, president of Temple Beit Torah, a reform synagogue in Colorado Spri...
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3 million ‘temporary’ migrants will now sway congressional seats thanks to Census Bureau change
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3 million ‘temporary’ migrants will now sway congressional seats thanks to Census Bureau change

By Beth Brelje | The Federalist The U.S. Census Bureau will now count refugees and border releases in its population estimates, a move that will affect congressional apportionment and demographic data. In a blog post Thursday announcing the change, the bureau noted, “a net of 2.8 million people migrated to the United States between 2023 and 2024. This is significantly higher than our previous estimates.” The data offers a glimpse of how congressional apportionment maps could change by 2030. It also shows how, as U.S. citizens flee states with garbage leftist policies, the inclusion of noncitizens in census data allows those states to keep congressional seats because their population is propped up by illegal aliens. Every 10 years, shortly after the census, the congressional a...
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s ‘festivus’ report highlights more than $1 trillion in federal waste
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s ‘festivus’ report highlights more than $1 trillion in federal waste

By Hannah Knudsen | Breitbart The federal government wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on a number of absurd and bizarre projects, including securing the Paraguayan border, studies on lonely rats and their relationship to cocaine, and “various magical projects.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday released his annual Festivus report chock-full of grievances after another year of incredibly wasteful spending. This year, he is highlighting over $1 trillion in government waste. “Who’s to blame for our crushing national debt? Everybody. This year, members of both political parties in Congress voted for massive spending bills, filled with subsidies for underperforming industries, continued military aid to Ukraine, and controversial climate initiatives,” Paul wrote in the report. READ ...
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Man accused of burning woman to death on NYC subway is previously deported illegal alien
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Man accused of burning woman to death on NYC subway is previously deported illegal alien

By Jennie Taer, Joe Marino and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon | The New York Post The illegal Guatemalan migrant accused of setting a straphanger on fire and gawking as she burned to death was once deported — but sneaked back into the US and the Big Apple shelter system, sources told The Post.  The accused firebug, who has not yet been charged, first entered the US illegally at the Arizona border in 2018, but was nabbed just days later and shipped back home.  He later crossed the border again, dodging federal agents and finding his way north to the five boroughs — although it is unclear how long he was in the city before the horrific F train attack Sunday, the sources said.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NEW YORK POST
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Home goods chain store files for bankruptcy and sparks fears of mass closures
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Home goods chain store files for bankruptcy and sparks fears of mass closures

By Tilly Armstrong | Daily Mail The struggling home goods chain, The Container Store, which has been around for 46 years, filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas late on Sunday.  The store is known for its home organizational goods, including closet organizers and storage bins. Despite receiving a boost from Marie Kondo's hit Netflix show 'Tidying Up' during the Covid-19 pandemic, the chain has been weighed down by mounting losses in recent years.  The company had $229.8 million in long-term debt as of the quarter ended September 28. CEO Satish Malhotra, a former Sephora executive who took over the top spot at the chain in 2021, said he is confident The Container Store is 'here to stay' despite the filing, Yahoo! Finance reported. READ...
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How Venezuela’s TdA gang used tactics seen in Aurora to seize a building in San Antonio, Texas
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How Venezuela’s TdA gang used tactics seen in Aurora to seize a building in San Antonio, Texas

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette The Venezuelan gang that infiltrated and terrorized tenants at three apartment complexes in Aurora used similar tactics to seize control of a San Antonio apartment complex, highlighting the increasingly disparate strategies employed by police in these cities. In both instances, Tren de Aragua (TdA) appeared to have gained a foothold in buildings largely occupied by Venezuelan nationals who arrived in both cities after illegally crossing the southern border. Law enforcement in San Antonio responded to the gang’s presence with handcuffs, while Aurora police countered with eviction notices. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates in final month of presidency
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Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates in final month of presidency

By Elizabeth Pritchett  | Fox News President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly all the inmates on federal death row, a move that comes not even two weeks after he went through with the "largest single-day grant of clemency" in American history, the White House announced Monday. Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org, Biden is commuting 37 men sentenced to death, reclassifying their sentences to life without the possibility of parole. The three inmates not included are: Robert Bowers, who is responsible for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, which left 11 people dead; Dylann Roof, a White supremacist who killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsa...
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Filmmaker politicizes his upcoming ‘Superman’ movie: ‘That is our country’
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Filmmaker politicizes his upcoming ‘Superman’ movie: ‘That is our country’

By Gabriel Hays  | Fox News Filmmaker James Gunn says the battered-looking version of Superman seen in the trailer for his highly anticipated "Superman" film represents America. During a recent Q&A session at the trailer’s premiere, the director acknowledged the political implications present in the film, saying there is a theme of a bruised and bloodied America running through it. "We do have a battered Superman in the beginning. That is our country," Gunn said at the event. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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Kittle: Check yourself, PolitiFact. Here are the biggest ‘Lies of the Year’
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Kittle: Check yourself, PolitiFact. Here are the biggest ‘Lies of the Year’

By M.D. Kittle | Commentary, The Federalist I can only imagine how much delusion filled the room of the PolitiFact “brainstorming” session to choose the “winning” selection of its latest “Lie of the Year.” Bonchie at RedState nailed it with a post on X musing about what the meeting must have looked like through the eyes of a fresh-faced intern yet to realize that PolitiFact is nothing more than a leftist propaganda operation.  READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE FEDERALIST
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