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CHICAGO (CBS) – At least three people are dead and eight are injured in shootings across the city over the weekend. three of the victims are under the age of 18. The first homicide of the weekend happened around 9 p.m. Friday night in the Auburn Gresham area. Police said a 19-year-old man was standing outside the 9000 block of South Normal when he heard shots fired and felt pain. The victim sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the legs and upper body and was transported to Christ Hospital where he later died. A 33-year-old man was shot while driving in...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday said he is planning to reinstitute a modified plainclothes anti-gun unit after a police officer was fatally shot while responding to a 911 call in Harlem. Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” about steps Adams is taking to make the city “more safe immediately,” the mayor said the Big Apple is going to restore a “newer version” of a modified plainclothes anti-tun unit.

Here's an apparently unpopular opinion: Joe Biden is not failing or flailing. His presidency is not in peril. It's hard to see this through the blizzard of over-the-top headlines such as, "Biden Can Still Rescue His Presidency," "How the Biden Administration Lost Its Way" and "Biden's Epic Failures." Everyone needs to take a breath: It's been one year. These headlines could just as easily read, "Joe Biden Fails to Fix Every Problem in the World in 365 days." What drives much of the "presidency in peril" coverage is Biden's approval ratings. CNN's poll of polls, released Thursday, found that 41%...

The Magic Bank Account Imagine that you had won the Following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has Rules: The set of Rules: 1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. 2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account. 3. You may only spend It. 4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that Day. 5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time, it can...

Are Democrats or Republicans better positioned to address voter concerns in this year's congressional elections? Depends on the issue. A Fox News national survey asks voters which party would do a better job on 14 issues. Voters split the list between Democrats and Republicans.

As Milton Freedman said in 1970, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” Little has changed since then. For most of the 1970s, Arthur Burns was chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Inflation was rampant, just like now. Consumer price inflation averaged nearly 7% during his term. As Friedman diagnosed correctly, this rapid inflation was mainly caused by increases in the money supply of over 12% in the years 1971-72 and 1976-77. Instead, Burns attributed the price increases mainly to wage pressures, monopoly power, and the oil shock of the early 1970s. Sound familiar? Inflation is again soaring, and...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A cruise line is in a state of chaos after unpaid fuel bills caused a Miami judge to issue an arrest warrant for the Crystal Symphony cruise ship. It’s owned by the ultra-luxury cruise line Crystal Cruises. The warrant gives authorities the ability to seize the ship if it enters U.S. waters. As a result, the ship is currently docked in Bimini instead of returning to South Florida. Passengers on the ship have told multiple media outlets that they’ll be shuttled via ferry back to Port Everglades sometime on Sunday. It comes just days after Crystal...

It has been a tough 7 days for Bitcoin, Ethereum and the NASDAQ composite index as The Fed is anticipated to raise their target rate AND engage in quantitative tightening. While the NASDAQ composite index has been deflating over past 7 days, Bitcoin and Ethereum plunged in recent days. What is going on?? The Russell 2000 value (white) and growth (green) indices are both deflating. With regards to anticipated Fed rate increases, Fed Funds Futures are signaling almost 4 rate hikes in 2022 and 4 by the February 2023 meeting. Then we have the massive increase in The Fed’s balance...

A few days before the first consultations on mandatory coronavirus vaccination in the German Bundestag, the plans of the proponents are taking shape. The deputy SPD party chairman Dirk Wiese, who together with other deputies of the 'traffic light coalition' of SPD, Greens and FDP prepares cornerstones of a vaccination obligation from the age of 18, recently gave details: The vaccination obligation should be limited to about one to two years, apply to no more than three vaccinations and be enforced via fines...

The vote was 8-1, with Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting. The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump's request for a stay of a lower court mandate that hundreds of pages of his presidential records from Jan. 6 be turned over to the congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The vote was 8-1. Justice Clarence Thomas would have granted the application. In November, an appeals court put a temporary pause on the records handover after Trump sued the committee and the National Archives, asserting executive privilege over more than 750 pages of records that the National...

The United States of America is no longer the undisputed hegemon of the Middle East. It is Russia, at the dawn of 2022, that is now the indispensable power in that region. Over the last decade, Russia’s political, economic and diplomatic footprint has expanded rapidly while that of the West has receded and is now deteriorating fast. Russia’s return to the international community as an important global actor is no new phenomenon. It has been planned. For decades, Moscow’s foreign policy has been predicated upon Russia once again assuming the standing of a recognized, world-leading nation. Yet it has only...

Gov. Ned Lamont won’t push for lawmakers to renew executive orders requiring certain state employees and teachers to either get vaccinated or tested for COVID-19. He said that's due to both the large number of people who’ve gotten the COVID-19 shots and the “significant administrative burden” placed on state agencies and schools to regularly test unvaccinated staff. Lamont said Thursday he still wants mandatory vaccinations for long-term care workers and employees at state-run hospitals. Lamont has provided legislative leaders with 11 executive orders he hopes they will extend.

Ukraine may be a poor nation if you just look at the GDP per capita, but it is a nation rich in natural resources like mineral wealth and agricultural land, which is the breadbasket of Europe. Ukraine has 30% of the world's richest black soil. Ukraine even exports agricultural products like corn to China. The educational level of Ukrainians is high, and the country has a significant industrialized base. Compared to Russia, Ukraine has great weather and was a tourist hub along the Black Sea even during Soviet times. The famous tourist resort Yalta, next to the Black Sea in...

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that there were “similarities” between former President Donald Trump and Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler. Dean said, “The truth is we’re not going to get everything we want, and Clyburn was exactly right. We need to focus on the half-full glass and go get some more. I’ve been in politics most of my life. You don’t get everything you want the first time. You get what you can get and go back and get the rest. You keep going and keep going and...

After a four-year wait, Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times will move forward with jury selection scheduled to begin Monday. U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has announced that date in a federal courthouse in Manhattan, blocking off an estimated two weeks for the trial. "This trial is not only entertaining, it will address an important principle: you don't get to make up nasty stuff about somebody you don't like and print it anyway," the New York Post's Kyle Smith wrote in an editorial after the announcement the case will go to trial.

In an interview on Dec. 17, 2021, Vice Pres. Kamala Harris said, “We didn’t see Delta coming…. We didn’t see Omicron coming.” A few days after that, a reporter asked Biden, “How did you get it wrong?” Biden laughed and replied, “Nobody saw it coming. Nobody in the whole world. Who saw it coming?” *When the Biden administration stopped construction on the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and started talking about giving immigrants free healthcare, a free education, etc., they didn’t see an immigration crisis coming. *When the Biden administration stopped construction on the Keystone Pipeline and drilling...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The death of a 13-year-old student who apparently overdosed on fentanyl at his Connecticut school has drawn renewed pleas for schools to stock the opioid antidote naloxone, as well as for training of both staffers and children on how to recognize and respond to overdoses. The seventh grader was hospitalized Jan. 13 after falling ill at a Hartford school that did not have naloxone on hand. City officials vowed Wednesday to put the antidote in all city schools, as part of a wider drug use and overdose prevention strategy. “Naloxone should be available in all schools,...

A manhunt was underway in Harris County, Texas, early Sunday after a sheriff's deputy was shot dead during an apparent traffic stop in the southwest region of Houston, officials said. The victim was identified as Cpl. Charles Galloway, 47, a 12-year veteran of the force. "This has got to stop," Constable Ted Heap said during a news conference at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday warned of a “swift” and “severe” united response from the U.S. and European allies if a "single additional Russian force" enters Ukraine. Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” about potential aggressions by Russia and if they would lead to sanctions, Blinken emphasized that any incursion by Moscow, despite the size, would be met with a strong response.

Federal law enforcement will be monitoring the anti-vaccine mandate rally, "Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming," which is taking place at the national mall on Sunday for any signs of violence.The event, which is billed as a peaceful protest, will begin with protesters marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, ......"This demonstration, as with most protest activity, is a soft target," a Jan. 14 Capitol Police bulletin warned, Yahoo News reported. "Extremists have become more comfortable with violence as a means to achieve political goals. The threat of a lone wolf or smaller-scale attack on a soft target...