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One of Kentucky’s largest bourbon producers apparently is pausing whiskey production at the end of the year. Jim Beam, which is one of the largest makers of American whiskey in the world, is planning to shut down production in Happy Hollow in Clermont on Jan. 1 through 2026. The visitors center on site will remain …
President Donald Trump will ‘permanently pause migration’ from third world countries and ordered a green card audit of 19 nations after the Washington, DC terror attack that left a National Guard soldier dead. Trump blasted former president Joe Biden for letting unvetted migrants stream into America – claiming he allowed the Afghan shooting suspect into …
JUST IN – U.S. pauses all issuing of worker visas for commercial truck drivers as the increasing number of foreign drivers "is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers." pic.twitter.com/PYSAT0g03r — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 21, 2025
I’ve got bad news. The AI cycle is over—for now. I’ve been an unapologetic AI maximalist since the first time I tricked GPT-4 into writing a working Python back-test for a volatility strategy back in early 2023. I’m still convinced it will take the wider economy years—maybe decades—to fully digest the productivity shock we’ve already …
Texas courts have stalled the removal of medical debt from credit reports, leaving millions of Americans in financial limbo. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule in January that would erase $49 billion in medical debt from credit histories. Originally set to take effect in March, the policy faced legal opposition, forcing delays. This …
The Trump administration has suspended several dozen research grants to Princeton, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 wrote in a campus-wide email on Tuesday. The grants were issued from several federal agencies, including the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Defense Department. The exact amount in question and the reasoning for the pause itself are unclear, …
BREAKING: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. pauses a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create a new COVID-19 vaccine. Via: Fox News pic.twitter.com/QxhdU9Jlv6 — Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) February 26, 2025 FIRST ON FOX: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create …
"Global economic growth acceleration pauses in June, as expansions in output and new orders slow."@SPGlobalPMI pic.twitter.com/b8Q70xKBvN — Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook) July 8, 2024
Billionaire Reid Hoffman does not plan to give any more money to Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Hoffman is one of Haley’s first wealthy donors to start heading for the exit after she said she will remain in the GOP nomination contests against former President Donald Trump, despite …
by confoundedinterest17 Like a bad good news, bad news joke, the good news is that US existing home sales ROSE 0.2% in May. The bad news? Existing home sales are DOWN -23.16% on a year-over-year basis. And the median price of existing home sales fell -3.44% YoY as inventory for sales remains missing in action …