Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The US economy blew past expectations to create 256,000 jobs in December, sending yields on US government debt lurching higher as traders and banks trimmed their forecasts for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. The figure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday exceeded the consensus forecast from economists polled by Reuters of 160,000 and was above the downwardly revised 212,000 positions added in November.Treasury yields climbed as investors bet the Fed will be slower to cut interest rates this year. Futures…
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Senate Democrats are trying to rebrand themselves. After years of constantly working to stop anything Trump wanted to do, they suddenly want everyone to know that they are not here to be ‘against’ anyone. They suddenly claim to want you to be able to keep more of your paycheck and that they want to work to bring down the cost of living. The video that they produced to deliver this message is pure cringe and they are getting dragged for it on social media. FOX News reports: Montage of Senate Democrats pledging to oppose Trump’s bad policies mocked as ‘cringe’…
A new documentary about Sean “Diddy” Combs claims that his mother had wild parties in his childhood home.”Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” premieres on Peacock on Jan. 14, and a childhood friend claimed in the documentary that Janice Combs’ parties may have been “desensitizing” to the music mogul.Diddy’s childhood friend and producer Tim “Dawg” Patterson said Diddy’s mother had parties at the home where they were exposed to adults having sex in the bedrooms.Article continues below advertisementChildhood Friend Claims Diddy Was Exposed To Sex At Mother’s PartiesMEGAAccording to Rolling Stone, Patterson claims in the new documentary that Diddy…
“DEVASTATING” Five separate fires have so far burned more than 15,000 hectares, destroying around 10,000 buildings, California’s fire agency reported. The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office confirmed an additional fatality on Friday, bringing the overall death toll so far to 11. “It reminded me of more of a war scene, where you had certain targets that were bombarded,” said Biden, as he received a briefing on the fires at the White House. Winds calmed on Friday, providing a much-needed if fleeting window of opportunity for firefighters battling blazes around the clock for a fourth consecutive day. At the biggest…
With a population of just over 5,000, the French village of Nuit-Saint-Georges may be small, but this pastoral Burgundy hamlet has an oversized connection to the moon. It is the birthplace of famed 19th-century astronomer Felix Tisserand, whose name was given to the Tisserand crater located in a vast lunar plain known as the Sea of Serenity. He was the contemporary of French novelist Jules Verne, author of From the Earth to the Moon – the first book to imagine such a journey – in which its characters celebrate their arrival with a bottle of wine from Nuit-Saint-Georges. Then, a…
One of the most intriguing matchups of the NFL Wild Card round is the battle between two head coaches who are very familiar with each other – Baltimore’s John Harbaugh and Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin. Tomlin (18 years) and Harbaugh (17 years) are the two longest-tenured head coaches in the NFL, and are facing each other for the third time this season. On the surface, Harbaugh should have the upper hand in this round as he brings Derrick Henry and MVP candidate Lamar Jackson into a matchup against Tomlin’s Pittsburgh squad with the worst odds to win the Super Bowl. But…
Academia has become one of Washington’s favorite political punching bags. Colleges and universities are often accused of obsessing over race in admissions, peddling radical and anti-American ideologies and churning out too many students with impractical degrees and poor job prospects. Regardless of whether you subscribe to these criticisms, the message is loud and clear: Higher education has lost its way.As college students, we have had front-row seats to the debates over university course requirements, academic freedom and campus protests. We’ve noticed, too, that higher education has become increasingly unaffordable.Some of our nation’s leaders appear to have lost sight of the…
Zillow released an analysis this week predicting the nation’s hottest housing markets of 2025, where sellers have the greatest advantage.The heat ranking takes local home value growth into account as well as how quickly homes are selling and job growth per new home.Buffalo, New York was at the top of the list, for the second year in a row. Zillow forecasts that the area will be the hottest housing market this year because of its lower-than-average home prices and strong home value growth. Related: The 15 Best Places to Live in the U.S., Where Homes Are Cheaper, and There Are…
Italian ryegrass is a common weed in arable cropsJohn Cussans Weeds resistant to the herbicide glyphosate have found been found in the UK for first time. The species in question, called Italian ryegrass, is very widespread in the UK, but specimens impervious to the chemical have only been found on one farm in Kent. Glyphosate has been helping farmers adopt more environmentally friendly farming practices known as regenerative agriculture, says John Cussans, a weed management expert at consultancy firm ADAS. His team confirmed that the plants were resistant in tests in a greenhouse. “It may affect our ability to transition…
MIAMI — About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with promises of hardline immigration policies.Biden’s administration has strongly supported Temporary Protected Status, which he has broadly expanded to cover about 1 million people. TPS faces an uncertain future under Trump, who tried to sharply curtail its use during his first term as president. Federal regulations would allow the extensions to be terminated early, although that’s never been done before.Homeland Security also extended TPS…