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A new law requiring hairdressers in New York to learn how to do all hair types including Black hair is now in effect. Starting Tuesday, anyone studying cosmetology in the state must be trained to work with diverse types of hair textures. The number of hours needed to get a license won't change. Instruction on how to do curly, wavy, coily and kinky hair must be integrated into the curriculum. The goal of the law is to stop anyone from being turned away from a salon. SNIP

Tuesday was episode one of Season 30 for ABC’s The View, and the purported “bona fide news program” came in scorching during their first Hot Topics segment; demanding everyone get out and vote against President Trump in the midterms “because our lives literally depend on this.” While they were claiming everyone would “literally” die without Democratic Party intervention, they also were calling for the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office. Starting with the most incendiary comment, it was moderator Whoopi Goldberg who suggested “literally” everyone was going to die if people didn’t vote for “change”...

A federal agent's contemporaneous notes suggest he may have been documenting the very weapons pipeline his own government was running, Slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry kept a diary showing he was tracking AK-47s at the border weeks before his 2010 murder exposed the Obama administration’s disastrous Fast and Furious gun-running scheme, according to excerpts from the journal obtained by Just the News. Terry's journal shows he stopped a shipment of AK-47s from entering the country just a month before he was murdered, according to his brother, Kent Terry. But his supervisors told him to allow the weapons to cross...

The second and youngest daughter of Ruth (nee Nuneviller) and Leo Steinem died Wednesday, September 2, at her home in New York City. Gloria Marie Steinem was born to the couple on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, becoming the younger sister of Susan Steinem Patch. She had no brothers. The northwest Ohio city of Toledo stands approximately 200 miles away from my childhood home in southwest Ohio, and in many respects (in the 1930s through ‘50s at least) worlds away from the Big Apple that Ms. Steinem chose to bite, if you will, and eventually make her home. The...

“I will never forget. Two firemen, we thought it was coming down on top of us and two firemen, big strong guys — and I’m not the smallest guy in the world — they grabbed me under the arms and said, ‘Gotta get out of here,’ and they literally lifted me up.” “This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up, and they started running with me. I said, ‘Fellas, I can run myself.’ But they were amazing, but they thought it was coming down. It didn’t come down.”

American manufacturing is on the rebound — and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now. Manufacturing isn’t the only sector that’s on a hiring spree; businesses across the board added 162,000 new jobs in August. Even The New York Times called the latest employment numbers “zesty.” The paper quoted T. Rowe Price’s chief US economist, Blerina Uruci: “It’s a very good report . . . And it perhaps shows that financial conditions more broadly are not that tight.” The workforce...

Emergency appeal turns up heat on Supreme Court, which is also considering the administration’s bid to change the rules for mail-in ballotsThe Trump administration filed an emergency appeal Tuesday that seeks the Supreme Court’s blessing to deploy a federal immigration database that it says could be used to root out people improperly registered to vote.The effort stems from an executive order President Trump issued last year that directed the Department of Homeland Security to share information with state officials about voter eligibility and to compare states’ voter rolls with federal data. The administration has built a verification system over the...

A public bus became stuck in fresh cement after the driver chose to drive down a closed road and bus passengers moved the barriers blocking off the wet cement. According to local outlet KYW, a bakery on the street where the incident occurred had been waiting two years for a large pothole outside of the business to be filled. A crew finally showed up and filled the hole with cement, and two minutes later a SEPTA public bus rolled up. Surveillance video provided by the bakery showed two passengers getting off the bus and moving the barriers that were in...

Buying a house, raising a family, spending Saturdays at kids’ sporting events – every aspect of normal life is touched by private equity.Your local doughnut shop got taken over by private equity and, like everything else private equity touches, things got worse. Gone is the experience of watching the conveyor belt fry doughnuts in front of you. No more biting into a freshly made pastry that melts in your mouth. Bad for you? Sure. Delicious? Yes.Now, it is just bad for you. Private equity stepped in and doughnuts are now shipped to nearly every location from a corporate shop. Krispy...

The crazed plane passenger who was duct-taped and zip-tied on a flight to New Jersey first flipped over a discussion about religion with his seatmate, a controversial Messianic rabbi who’s a best-selling author dubbed a “Doomsday prophet.” Author Jonathan Cahn said that now-fired Arizona realtor Arthur Layne Lundeen, 67, allegedly started hurling racist and homophobic slurs after first screaming at him that “Jesus is bulls–t.” “I was the unidentified passenger and I was actually attacked, 30,000 feet in the sky. I was attacked on that plane,” Cahn revealed in a YouTube video Monday. “I have never seen someone change in...

“You better get ready for … war.” Across the country, radicals are openly planning for the next stage of their movement, and notably, the Democratic establishment is not part of their plans. Despite the talk of a “Big Tent Party,” socialists are riding high on a surge of support and talking purges and revolution. In Chicago, radicals gathered for a conference on Marxism during what many view as the heyday of socialism in the United States. The Democratic Socialists of America is now larger and more powerful than at any time in our history. Socialist candidates are winning elections across...

Whitman College, located in Walla Walla, Washington, promises every student on its campus "freedom of expression and association." Unless, it seems, they are Republican. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), when members of the Whitman Republican Club applied to become a college-affiliated student organization, "they had every reason to expect approval through the same review process as any other group." After all, ideological groups such as Climate Justice Coalition and Planned Parenthood Generation Action have a formal affiliation. The student senate, however, unanimously rejected their application. 25-0. Per FIRE: Was it something they had done? Was...

The Southeastern Conference is seeking the legal authority to expel Louisiana State University as the fight over former professional players continues to play out. According to a Tuesday morning report from CBS Sports’ Brandon Marcello, the SEC added the expulsion language to an amended federal court filing. The conference says it needs legal protection to enforce rules that bar professional athletes from returning to college sports. The SEC’s filing argues that keeping LSU in the conference could violate the league’s rights and values as the school looks to activate two former college players who signed NFL contracts but didn’t make...

On Sunday, Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (“AfD”) won a landslide victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, taking roughly 44 percent of the vote and more than doubling the total of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats.Or, as readers of the American press learned, the “far right” had won a major victory. AP News declared, “Germany shocked by far-right election triumph.” The Reuters headline: “Far-right win leaves Germany’s Merz shaken.” NBC News: “Far-right Alternative for Germany party wins big in regional election but falls short of majority.” And of course, NPR: “Germany’s far-right achieves an electoral breakthrough.”Well, this is certainly troubling, isn’t...

Hundreds of protesters block roads in city late on Sunday Incident follows anti-migrant protest in Dover on Saturday British minister calls protesters "thuggish" Police force disperses crowd, no arrests yet PORTSMOUTH, England, Sept 7 (Reuters) - British minister Emma Reynolds condemned hundreds of protesters who blocked streets in the English coastal city of ‌Portsmouth late on Sunday to try to stop the arrival of migrants from France, calling them "thuggish". The gathering was the second anti-migrant demonstration in two days, after masked men disrupted traffic in the port of Dover on Saturday, chanting "Stop the boats", a reference to the...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV’s Appointed President of the ‘Academy for Life’ Opens the Door to Euthanasia Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, claims that Catholics could morally assent to a law permitting assisted suicide in Italy.Speaking to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire.it on September 6, he said: “From the Catholic side, it is a matter of assessing whether we will be faced with an ‘imperfect law’, to which it would nevertheless be moral to give one’s assent, in view of the fact that more permissive and libertarian laws could otherwise quickly be approved in Parliament, laws...

🚨 WOW. Shocking poll from Gallup reports that since 2001, Democrats went from 85% proud to be an American to 36% — a plummet of 49 POINTS Republicans went from 90% proud to be an American — to 92% PERCENT, actually gaining 2 points

Inflation can make an investment account look far healthier than it really is. Once taxes are added, investors may discover that a significant portion of their apparent profit never increased their purchasing power at all.The Hidden Tax Inside a Long-Term GainConsider an investor who puts $10,000 into a stock, earns 10% annually and sells after 20 years.The investment grows to approximately $67,275, producing a taxable capital gain of $57,275.That sounds like an exceptional result. Yet if inflation averaged 3% during those two decades, nearly half of the gain would reflect rising prices rather than a true increase in purchasing power.Compounding...