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Mortgage rates reached their highest level last week since a previous recent peak in November as incoming economic data sends more “mixed signals,” according to a report released by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) on Wednesday. The average rate for the benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage hit 7.07 last week, up from 6.85 percent the week before, MBA’s data showed. “Incoming economic data continue to send mixed signals about the economy, with the overall impact leaving Treasury yields higher last week as markets expect that the Federal Reserve will need to hold rates higher for longer to slow inflation,” MBA...

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So far, 2023 was not very nice to cable TV companies. They lost a total of 1,820,943 subscribers in just the first 91 days of 2023. That works out to be over 20,000 subscribers every day. This comes from the Leichtman Research Group, which tracks the cable TV and streaming markets. If that trend continues, over 7 million Americans will cancel cable TV in 2023. We will soon get a good idea of how that trend is going in the 2nd quarter of 2023. In August, multiple cable and satellite companies will report earnings for the 2nd quater. This will...

VIDEOA desperate drug addicted dictator is losing a war so he orders the use of vengeance weapons against his enemy. This sounds like something from 80 years ago but it is happening now in the Ukraine where Zelensky is demanding the use of the V-3 Cluster Bomb vengeance weapons. And weirdly, the USA will give it to him. Why? Because, according to Joe Biden, we have run out of ammo so that justifies the use of cluster bombs. Using that line of reasoning it could lead to the use of even more terrible weapons. Don't believe me, Zelensky himself now...

A Los Angeles business owner says city code enforcement officials have relentlessly targeted him for setting a sidewalk sign too close to city property while ignoring the growing homeless encampments. Arik Air, owner of Motostyles, a motorcycle accessory and remote control hobbies store in the Grenada Hills area, claims code enforcement officials visited the business multiple times in June and his complaints to city officials including the mayor have been met with silence. "I'm kind of pissed off because it's an ongoing battle with them for kind of forever," Air told Ainsley Earhardt on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday. "They keep...

President Joe Biden vowed to stand by Ukraine 'as long as it takes' as he and fellow G7 leaders announced a new security deal for Kyiv. It came just one day after Volodymyr Zelensky launched a social media tirade against his Western allies over what he called an 'absurd' delay to setting out a pathway to his country's full membership of the NATO military alliance. 'We are going to be there as long as it takes,' Biden said in a speech flanked by fellow leaders from the G7, a club of the world's richest economies that includes Britain and France....

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) heralded the power of President Donald Trump’s nationwide grassroots support during a recent Fox News interview, noting the “millions of small donors that invest” in the president’s 2024 MAGA reelection campaign.Gov. Noem explained that she believed Trump’s campaign was performing powerfully in the primary race because he’s a “fighter and every day Americans get up and they’re shocked by what they see happening in the United States of America.”She noted that when Trump was in office, Americans recognize that “they were safer” and “they had more money in their pocket.”As reported by RSBN, the...

CHATSWORTH, CA — With the help of airdrops, Los Angeles and Venturay County firefighters mounted an aggressive attack to stop a brush fire that broke out in the Chatsworth area overnight. Crews were able to hold the blaze, dubbed the Brown Fire to three acres, knocking it down by sunrise Tuesday. The blaze burned uphill several miles north of the Ronald Regan (118) Freeway. Fire crews were called at 10:54 p.m. Monday to 15954 Browns Canyon Road near an unincorporated area of Porter Ranch and the Santa Susana Mountains and an abandoned Nike missile base regarding a brush fire that...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus, “Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” Matthew 10:5–7The very last words of Jesus, just prior to His Ascension into Heaven, expands the mandate we read above that Jesus gave to His Apostles. He later says, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the...

p>President Trump does not mince words when it comes to the senseless bloodshed and chaos in Ukraine. As Joe Biden meets with NATO members to consider their latest strategies to expand the proxy war in Ukraine, President Trump denounces the decision to provide cluster bombs.It should be noted, this recent decision by Biden follows an earlier decision by NATO to send depleted uranium munitions into the battlefield. Ukraine is quickly turning into a toxic killing field as World War Reddit continues.DONALD J TRUMP – “Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions...

President Biden found himself momentarily lost in his own words after he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “Vladimir”, the forename of his Russian enemy, before correcting himself in Vilnius, Latvia on Wednesday. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the annual NATO summit, hosted this year in Vilnius, Lithuania, U.S. President Biden read from his notes as he made remarks about the developing relationship between the alliance and Ukraine. Saying that NATO had cleared a path to membership for Ukraine, Biden went on to speak of new promises the alliance was making to the country. Trying to refer to his opposite...

A prominent Republican lawmaker in Utah has raised more than $2 million since launching an exploratory committee to challenge Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), breaking the record for the most money raised by a GOP Senate candidate or potential candidate in their first three months. Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson has raised roughly $2.2 million since launching the committee in April, giving the GOP leader a hefty war chest as he considers a primary challenge to Romney next year. Nearly half of the sum was raised by in-state donors, while $1.2 million comes from Wilson’s own personal contribution, according to the...

Tech giant Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday evening that it discovered a group of Chinese hackers had broken into some of its customers' email systems to gather intelligence. The company began investigating unusual activity within a few weeks of the initial attack, though the culprits were able to repeatedly manipulate credentials to access accounts. According to the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, one federal government agency first detected unusual activity on its Microsoft 365 email cloud environment last month, and immediately reported the activity to Microsoft and CISA. CISA did not identify the government agency in question...

For some odd reason, a certain contingent of the population is trying to downplay how serious of a problem child sex trafficking has become. This is evident by the fact that many leftists have reacted negatively to Jim Caviezel’s new movie “Sound of Freedom.” The movie seems to have rattled many of them in a major way, which begs a serious question: Why? Why would anyone have a problem with Jim Caviezel bringing attention to something like this? We can only speculate on the answer to that question of course. However, here’s another question… Why did the DOJ suddenly remove...

China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times celebrated on Monday the arrival of Giannis Antetokounmpo in Beijing, the first NBA star of his caliber in the league to visit the country since the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic began. Antetokounmpo, of the Milwaukee Bucks, led his team to the 2021 NBA championship and has since risen to become one of the most popular players in the league. He arrived in China on Wednesday with brothers and fellow basketball players Thanasis and Alex Emeka in tow and has spent the past week enjoying the sights in Beijing and Guangzhou, posting frequently to social media...

The far right's anti-immigration mantra is seeping through a once ironclad political divide between it and mainstream politics. More voices are now embracing a hard line against immigration and blaming immigrants not only for the car burnings and other violence that followed the June 27 killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, but for France's social problems as well. “We know the causes” of France’s unrest, Bruno Retailleau, head of the conservative group that dominates the French Senate, said last week on broadcaster France-Info. “Unfortunately for the second, the third generation there is a sort of regression toward their origins, their ethnic...

In an appearance at the French National Assembly, Minister of the Interior Gerard Darmanin insisted that “only 10%” of the rioters were “foreign,” while 90% were “French citizens.” That may be true, but those 90% were French citizens only on their identity cards. By their mental makeup, they were still the Muslim migrants whom their fathers and grandfathers had been. They still refused, as citizens, to integrate into French society, still tried to milk the French welfare state of every conceivable benefit – free housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits, family allowances, and more – that it offered....

At a press conference, Biden falsely claimed that Al Qaeda was no longer operating in Afghanistan. “I said al Qaeda would not be there. I said it wouldn’t be there. I said we’d get help from the Taliban. What’s happening now? What’s going on? Read your press. I was right.”In reality, Al Qaeda is operating training camps in six provinces, including Helmand, which hundreds of Marines had been killed and wounded trying to secure during Obama’s surge. The 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment lost 25 marines, including the son of former Chief of Staff John Kelly, and suffered 34 amputations....

CNN is under fire for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney as “he” and “him” in a segment about the “culture war” being waged over the transgender influencer’s partnership with Bud Light. Correspondent Ryan Young failed to use the 26-year-old influencer’s preferred pronouns in a short segment about the backlash against the beer giant that has led to plummeting sales. Young also mispronounced Mulvaney’s first name as “Dylvan” while describing the social media star to “CNN News Central” viewers Tuesday. “He, of course, is the transgender person they were going to sponsor and go along with, with Bud Light,” Young said, using “he”...

The Biden administration's blatant treatment of individuals who entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 as if they were murderous terrorists or insurrectionists is unprecedented in our history. To be sure, a small handful committed acts of vandalism, trespassing, and intimidation. Most of the people whom Biden is holding did not merit harsh treatment. In many instances, some were held for months in solitary confinement and were denied their fundamental liberties as American citizens. America, founded on the Constitution and its amendments, guarantees rights to the individual. We are a republic where laws are to prevail, to be administered...