The top concern of American mayors is infrastructure, according to a recent report. This indicates that local officials realize that neglecting infrastructure to address other needs will end up hurting everything, says one of the report’s authors. “Infrastructure has always been the sacrificial lamb,” said Farhad Omeyr of the National League of Cities (NLC) Center…
Trump Calls for Death Penalty in the Fight Against Child Trafficking
Former President Donald Trump released a campaign proposal on July 21 saying that he would subject human traffickers to the death penalty, as part of his latest anti-crime proposal for his 2024 White House bid. Mr. Trump also used the campaign video to endorse the nationwide box office hit “Sound of Freedom,” which tells the story…
GOP Candidates Play ‘Try That in a Small Town’ at Rallies in Show of Support to Jason Aldean
Republican presidential candidates are rallying behind country music singer Jason Aldean and his song “Try That in a Small Town,” issuing statements of support in what has become a political controversy and playing the tune at their campaign rallies. Since its release in mid-May, the now divisive song has skyrocketed in popularity among GOP and conservative listeners…
LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (July 21): Trump Classified Documents Trial Set for May 2024; AI Companies Commit to Safeguards at Biden Meeting
A federal judge in Florida on July 21 scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer of Trump’s for over a decade, is settling a lawsuit he brought against the Trump Organization in 2019….
NTD Evening News (July 21): Trump Classified Documents Trial Set for May 2024; AI Companies Commit to Safeguards at Biden Meeting
A federal judge in Florida on July 21 scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer of Trump’s for over a decade, is settling a lawsuit he brought against the Trump Organization in 2019….
FBI Wrongly Searched Surveillance Data for US Senator’s Name, Court Finds
FBI employees and agents inappropriately searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a state senator and a U.S. senator, said a court opinion that was released Friday. The newly disclosed finding is included in the release of a 117-page order (pdf) declassified on July 16 by the federal judiciary’s foreign intelligence surveillance court in April—a…
Blinken Calls for Engagement With China After State Department Hack
July 21, 2023
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The United States’ top diplomat is calling for increased diplomatic engagement with China’s communist regime following a massive hack of State Department emails by China-linked cybercriminals. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration would redouble its efforts to engage diplomatically with communist China following the hack of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government…
‘Sound of Freedom’ Breaks Expectations, Hits $100 Million at Box Office
Despite a bevy of negative articles from mainstream media outlets like Rolling Stone and Bloomberg News, the anti-child-trafficking movie “Sound of Freedom” has generated $100 million at the box office since it made its debut several weeks ago. The low-budget film featuring actor Jim Caviezel is based on the life of Tim Ballard, the founder…
US Mortgage Rates Fall in Biggest Decline Since March
July 21, 2023
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U.S. mortgage rates dropped from an eight-month high, after nearing 7 percent last week, as inflation slows ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting. The Fed’s aggressive interest-rate hike policy sent mortgage rates well above 7 percent last year, causing the once booming housing market to crash. Rates have been slow to decline from the nearly two-decade high,…
The Fed Is Raising Rates, but What About the $8.3 Trillion Balance Sheet?
July 21, 2023
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All financial eyes will be on next week’s policy meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The futures market is penciling in a quarter-point increase to the benchmark federal funds rate. But while all the focus among economists, investors, and market analysts is on interest rates, what about the Federal Reserve’s massive balance sheet?…
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