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Dollar General's stock plunged nearly 30% after it reported worse-than-expected quarterly results. It's a sign of how dire things have become for low-income shoppers. It also challenges a widely held assumption about dollar stores. Things are getting worse for US consumers, and Dollar General is suffering as a result. The dollar store chain reported second-quarter comparable sales below analysts' expectations on Thursday. Dollar General also cut its sales growth expectations for the rest of the year, warning that its low-income customers have pulled back spending — and that things could get even worse. The quarter included a "weaker sales environment...

NEW YORK — There’s a new member of the $1 trillion company club in the U.S. — and for the first time, it isn’t a technology company. On Tuesday morning, shares of Berkshire Hathaway briefly rose high enough to give the conglomerate holding company a market value of $1 trillion. Topping the list of the most valuable companies are Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft, which all are worth more than $3 trillion. Other companies trading above $1 trillion include Alphabet, Amazon and Meta. Among those companies, Microsoft, which was founded in 1975, is the oldest. Berkshire Hathaway, meanwhile, was founded in...

Blue Jackets star forward Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, died Thursday night, the team said. Police said they were killed while biking Thursday night in Oldmans Township, New Jersey, close to their hometown in Salem County, New Jersey. Gaudreau, 31, was the Blue Jackets’ top forward after signing in July 2022 as an unrestricted free agent from the Calgary Flames. According to a post on a popular wedding site, Gaudreau and his brother were scheduled to be groomsmen in their sister's wedding Friday in Philadelphia. Gaudreau had two young children, a daughter, Noa, and son, Johnny, with his wife...

VIDEOKamala Harris in her first interview in over a month has been widely panned for her lame performance despite being fed easy questions by Dana Bash aka Border Czar Denialist. However, the one overwhelming thing that struck me as well as many others is how SMALL Kamala looked in her interview setting. So small that the two others with her appeared to be giants. Is Kamala Harris actually shrinking? My theory is that she was puffed up by the Democrats and the media at her convention but is now rapidly shrinking before our eyes as she has become... THE INCREDIBLE...

Home Depot plans to do away with testing prospective employees for marijuana and will ban screening current staffers for pot, according to a report.The big box retailer — which employs roughly 400,000 people in more than 2,000 locations nationwide — sent memo earlier this week saying that “marijuana will be removed from all drug panels” throughout the company’s US-based operations, according to the news site Marijuana Moment.The directive from the human resources department said the company will also ban testing for marijuana following a workplace accident and in cases where there’s reasonable suspicion that an employee was impaired, according to...

My day 1 dream for President Donal Trump goes something like this: During the inauguration speech, President Trump announces that he will sign an executive order to halt all activity in every federal department and agency, with the exception of the US Military and the US Treasury, and ask Congress to form a committee to review the need for these departments, and make recommendations as to how to transfer the work done to by these departments to the 50 states. Payments for SS, Medicare, & Medicaid will continue, but all other federal employees in these departments and agencies not involved...

A shocking partisan switch is underway in the stratosphere of the tech titans: The industry known for its wokeness is betting big bucks on a Republican. Last week former President Donald Trump gave a thumbs up to the notion of teaming up with billionaire innovator Elon Musk if he wins in November. Hours later, Musk posted a message on X: “I am willing to serve.”... Whether or not Musk actually joins a Trump administration—Trump himself said Sunday that the mogul is likely too busy to do so but could “consult”—his bold steps to back the Republican signal a turnaround. Musk...

“‘Do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own’” (Matthew 6:34). The believer is not to worry about his future. British pastor Martyn Lloyd-Jones said, “Although it is very right to think about the future, it is very wrong to be controlled by it.” He was right, because worry is a tremendous force that will endeavor to defeat you. It will try to destroy you today by making you upset and anxious. But if it loses today, it will take you into the future until it finds something to...

Like ships passing on the night shift, I wonder if I was one of Vice President Kamala Harris's customers when she worked at a McDonald's in the 1980s. As with many of the thirteen percent of Americans who have worked at McDonald's, she made money as a college student by not exactly serving cheeseburgers in paradise. (Eat too often at the golden arches, and you may soon see the pearly gates, as the health food saying goes.) However, even Snopes says it has found no proof of when, where, and with whom Harris worked. But maybe Harris should have worked...

Earlier, we shared with you Tim Walz’s pathetic excuse for decades of stolen valor. Here it is, again, in case you missed it: CNN REPORTER: You said you carried weapons in war, but you never deployed to war. TIM WALZ: I'm proud of my service and my record. I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. REPORTER: The idea you were in war. Did you misspeak? WALZ: My grammar's not always correct. pic.twitter.com/QPssoHSIov — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 30, 2024 We will go as far as to say no one believed that excuse—or that the number of people...

A U.S. House Committee has launched a probe of the Biden-Harris administration after reports that the White House pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, a leading professional nonprofit association, to remove the age limits for transgender surgeries and drugs for minors. Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., chair of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra opening the probe, which requests all documentation and communication around the alleged “political interference” and whether HHS has pressured other medical groups to alter its guidance. Critics have raised concerns that those surgeries, which do...

Are the Harris-Biden open borders now Latin-Americanizing the U.S.?That's what it looks like with this heinous and underreported incident in San Diego's back county not far from the U.S.-Mexico border:Illegals are now trying to force their way onto our kids’ school buses. https://t.co/PaD4dMlcyd — Rep. Darrell Issa (@repdarrellissa) August 29, 2024 According to a joint local Fox 5/KUSI report, which appear to be the only major outlets reporting this:JAMUL, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Two school bus routes within the Jamul-Dulzura Union School District have been briefly interrupted over the last two days after migrants attempted to board them, according to...

30 August 2024 Friday of week 21 in Ordinary Time Sanctuary in honor of the Ecuadorian saint Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, Nobol, Equador Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 1:17-25We preach a crucified Christ, the power and wisdom of GodChrist did not send me to baptise, but to preach the Good News, and not to preach that in the terms of philosophy in which the crucifixion of Christ cannot be expressed. The language of the cross may be illogical to those who are not on the way to salvation, but those of us who are on the...

Gruesome details revealed in West Bank terrorist home-invasion murder. Military prosecution charges the Hamas operative with murder for targeting Yohai Avni because he was Jewish, acknowledging a nationalist motive after 51 days and intense family pressure, marking it as a terrorist act. In a dramatic, last-minute turn, the military prosecution charged the terrorist responsible for the murder of Yohai Avni, a 40-year-old resident of Givon HaHadasha in the West Bank, with committing the crime "because the victim was Jewish." This nationalist motive was added to the indictment just hours before it was presented in military court Tuesday morning, marking the...

Wassem Hazem, head of the Hamas terror organization in the West Bank area of Jenin, was killed on Friday in a joint IDF, ISA, and Israel Border Police counterterrorism operation in the northern Samaria area, Israel's military announced shortly afterward. Hazem was killed in his vehicle after an exchange of fire during the joint operation. His role in the terror group involved carrying out and directing shooting and bombing attacks. Hazem continuously advanced terrorist activities in the Judea and Samaria area, the IDF added. Following the elimination of Hazem, two additional terrorists, Maysara Masharqa and Arafat Amer, who were in...

One of the more disappointing things about American politics is how much time is often spent debating policies that have no actual chance of ever being enacted in this country. Such is the case with the recently “proposed” federal abortion ban that has apparently sent a large number of pro-life Republicans into a tizzy after Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have said they would not sign such a bill were it to be put on the desk of the president, and has them claiming they will not vote for the GOP ticket as a result. Let's, however, look at this...

From George Orwell’s 1984 comes one of the author’s most memorable lines: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”Well, while the fictional party of Oceania illustrated a society in which the people were to dismiss reality in authoritarian submission, Colorado governor Jared Polis prefers to gaslight us, describing the “evidence of [our] eyes and ears” as a mere figment of our “imagination.” We don’t need to “reject” anything because it’s all just in our crazy heads!Yesterday I wrote a blog on a surreal and terrifying situation in...

State Rep. Shawn Thierry, a Houston Democrat who was defeated in her primary earlier this year, announced Friday she is switching to the Republican Party. Thierry was ousted by primary challenger Lauren Ashley Simmons in the May runoff after she sided with Republicans last year on a handful of bills opposed by the LGBTQ+ community, including a measure barring gender-transitioning care for minors. She delivered an emotional speech from the House floor explaining why she broke with her party, remarks that went viral. In a statement, Thierry said she switched parties because the Democratic Party “has veered so far left,...

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Here are all the cases that have been documented where calibers beyond .44 Magnum were used. There are 4 incidents where .454 Casull revolvers were fired. There was 1 incident where a .460 S&W Magnum revolver was fired. there were 2 incidents where a .500 S&W Magnum revolver was fired. These cases do not include incidents where handguns were used with other lethal means or a mix of handgun calibers were used. The incident is included if more than one handgun of the same caliber was used. Six incidents were against brown bears and one against a polar bear. All...