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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. construction spending tumbled in June as outlays on single-family homebuilding declined sharply amid rising mortgage rates. The Commerce Department said on Monday that construction spending dropped 1.1% in June after gaining 0.1% in May. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast construction spending would rise 0.1%. Construction spending increased 8.3% on a year-on-year basis in June. Spending on private construction projects decreased 1.3% after increasing 0.2% in May.

The NFL suspended Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for six games on Monday for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. As part of the decision, Watson must now receive all his massages from Browns team therapists, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero. Robinson's ruling said that while Watson's “pattern of behavior was egregious,” it was “nonviolent sexual conduct,” per Pelissero.

Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lanka issued an urgent appeal on Monday to tackle rapidly spreading malnutrition among children as its economic crisis leaves nine out of 10 people dependent on state handouts. The bankrupt state, grappling with Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since independence, was unable to sustain welfare. Sri Lanka's inflation was officially measured at 60.8 percent in July, but private economists say it is well over 100 percent and second only to Zimbabwe. The country ran out of foreign exchange to finance even essential imports late last year and Colombo defaulted on its $51 billion foreign debt in...

Former President Donald J. Trump slammed Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s U.S. Senate campaign Sunday night over a poll that Republican strategists told Breitbart News undercounts Trump’s support in the Show Me State to boost Schmitt’s numbers.“Wow, great dishonesty in politics. Too bad!” Trump wrote of the Remington Research Group poll — commissioned by operatives associated with the Schmitt campaign — in a Truth Social post. Remington was launched by the political consulting firm Axiom Strategies, which was founded by Jeff Roe — Schmitt’s top consultant. With voters hitting the ballots in less than 36 hours, Trump’s Truth Social post...

CHICAGO (CBS) – At least four people are dead and 40 others are wounded in weekend shootings across the city. Three of the victims are under the age of 18, including a 16-year-old shot and killed in Brighton Park. In the first shooting of the weekend, a man, 59 was shot while outside in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood Friday evening. The victim was on the sidewalk, in the 6800 block of South Indiana Avenue around 6:15 p.m. when an unknown vehicle pulled up, and an unknown offender inside the vehicle fired shots at the victim. The victim was shot...

A journalist was barred from covering the execution of a convicted killer because officials claimed that her skirt was too short. Ivana Hrynkiw Shatara – the managing producer of news video and social media for AL.com – attempted to cover the state execution of Joe Nathan James Jr. at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on July 28. James Jr. was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of his 26-year-old ex-girlfriend -Faith Hall. Alabama Department of Corrections Public Information Officer Kelly Betts told Shatara that she could not cover the execution because her outfit was “inappropriate” and...

FILM SYNOPSISAn in-depth look into the Covid 19 narrative, who’s controlling it, and how it’s being used to inject an untested, new technology into almost every person on the planet. The film explores how the narrative is being used to strip us of our human rights while weaving in the impact of mandates in a deeply powerful story of one man's tragic loss. Hear the truth from doctors and scientists not afraid to stand up against Big Pharma and the elite class who profit from mandates.

New Orders and Employment Contracting Production and Backlogs Growing Supplier Deliveries Slowing at a Slower Rate Raw Materials Inventories Growing; Customers’ Inventories Too Low Prices Increasing at a Slower Rate; Exports and Imports Growing Record-Long Lead Times for Production Materials and MRO Supplies Tempe, Arizona) — Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in July, with the overall economy achieving a 26th consecutive month of growth, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Timothy R. Fiore, CPSM, C.P.M., Chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) Manufacturing Business...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health has been a topic of global discussion after footage showed him coughing, walking stiffly and seemingly tired. WSJ looks at how his on-camera appearances are being scrutinized amid the war in Ukraine and questions over his succession.

After a mass rape of eight women, the police in South Africa arrested 82 suspects. Officials were investigating at least 32 rape cases, police in the northern province of Gauteng said on Saturday. Some of the victims were raped by up to ten men, said Police Minister Bheki Cele. The group of perpetrators also committed an armed robbery. On Friday, heavily armed black perpetrators known as “zama-zamas” attacked the film crew and extras at an abandoned site in Krugersdorp, near Johannesburg. The crew had been filming a music video at the disused mine. The eight women who were raped were...

Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89. Her son Kyle Johnson said Nichols died Saturday in Silver City, New Mexico. “Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away. Her light however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration,” Johnson wrote on her official Facebook page Sunday. “Hers was a life well lived and as such...

Sunday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) reacted to whistleblowers within the FBI claiming that top brass were working to discredit allegations made against Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, as the elder Biden was running for commander-in-chief.Johnson said he was not “shocked” but did find the effort to help the Bidens “outrageous.” He suggested it was proof the FBI and Department of Justice could not be trusted.“[F]irst of all, thank God for those whistleblowers. We need a whole lot more of them in the FBI, the Department of Justice, and our federal health agencies,”...

Body of Thread: The United States steamship Matanzas, Capt., LEISGANY, arrived at this port last night, from New-Orleans at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 25th inst. She brought the following passengers: Mrs. Giraud, Mr. Sibley, Mr. A. Brother, Mrs. Avigno and family, Mrs. G.B. Curter and child, Mr. Pickens, Mr. Keler Kutz, Mrs. Row, Mrs. L. Judke, Countess Mejan, Mr. Cantwell, son and servant, Capt. Pat. Hy. Ryan and lady, Mr. Juyes and family, Capt. Menard, lady and two servants, Capt. Chester Hillard and family, Mr. A. Carpenter, Varardy, John Duncan, G.O. Fawcett, John McClailay, Duffan, J. Hart,...

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This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

India is not on our side in the Ukrainian war and, according to an Indian business publication, India is buying 50 times as much oil from Russia this summer as it did in April.

Chicago woman Jeannette Cooper lost custody of her child, Sophia, after the 12-year-old told her father and stepmother that she was transgender and didn’t feel safe with her mother, the Independent Women’s Forum reported.Because Cooper is skeptical of gender ideology and questions whether her daughter is actually transgender, a court sided with the child’s father, who claimed Sophia is mentally and emotionally unsafe staying with her mother, according to the IWF. Cooper has only spent eight and a half hours with Sophia, now almost 16, since the child left her house in 2019.“I have an understanding of the concept of...

A Lake in the Hills bakery that was targeted earlier this month in a hate crime after planning a family-friendly drag show was ordered to stop hosting public events because it isn’t zoned for entertainment — a move the store’s owner called a “conspiracy.” Corrina Sac, of UpRising Bakery and Cafe, said in a Facebook video posted Saturday that village officials sent a letter a day earlier threatening large fines and the revocation of its business and liquor licenses if any more events are organized. The ACLU of Illinois vowed to defend Sac and warned the village’s actions “create a...

The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reached the climax of its lengthy battle with the Media Research Center’s video division by entirely axing it from the platform without notice. An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find that the account was “banned” — again — but not before the platform removed five more videos. TikTok’s latest censor blitz came just three weeks after the platform permanently banned MRCTV on May 26. TikTok reduced the initial sentence from a permanent ban to a weeklong suspension, but one week after the suspension ended, the Chinese-Communist Party-tied platform removed MRCTV. Between Aug....

The Hawaiian islands’ coal shipments are ending. The bulker carrying the state’s final coal shipment will leave this week after refueling the state’s last coal-fired power plant. That plant is scheduled to close in September forcing the state’s energy providers to compete with the US Navy for oil tankers. AES Hawaii, operator of the largest power plant on Oahu, received 15,000 tons of Indonesian coal from the Liberian flag bulker MV Flying Tiger. The 180-megawatt plant is the biggest source of the island’s electricity and provided 13% of the state’s overall power in 2018.