Todd Crawford
NY: Sweltering Temperatures Prompts City Hall to Urge New Yorkers to Cut Back on Energy Use
City Hall is urging New Yorkers to scale back energy use for a second week as the city bakes under an extended heat wave that is placing stress on the electricity grid. In order to...
Trump Forges Ahead in White House Bid Following Assassination Attempt
Having survived an assassination attempt and a number of legal cases, Donald Trump, 78, is forging ahead with his White House bid and announced his running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, at this week's Republican...
Federal Reserve Somewhat Confident Inflation Is Returning to Normal Levels, Interest Rate Cut May Be on the Horizon
According to recent comments by Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, key U.S. inflation readings measured over the second quarter of this year appear to indicate that inflation is cooling and returning to normal levels prompting...
Freight Importers Struggling as Container Shipping Rates Return to $10,000
The cost of shipping a standard 40-foot container from Shanghai to New York has ballooned to nearly $10,000, placing increased pressure on the country’s importers with some saying the market is experiencing a bubble. According...
NYC Sees Some Relief as Migrant Arrivals Slow Drastically
While the number of migrants under the city’s care has remained around the same at about 69,000, the number making their way to the Big Apple has dropped drastically. According to figures supplied by the...
Southern US Primed for Real Estate Crisis, Expert Warns
On June 8, Nick Gerli, founder and CEO of Reventure Consulting, warned that several southern U.S. states are at risk of experiencing a real estate crisis due to an oversupply of inventory and declining demand....
Proposed Regulations Capping Overdraft and Late Fees Will Drive Up Costs for Customers, JPMorgan Says
Recently, Marianne Lake, the head of Chase Bank — a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. — notified 86 million of her customers that they should brace for new fees for their banking services if...
US Supreme Court Rules Presidents Have ‘Some Immunity’ From Criminal Prosecution
On July 1 (Monday), the Supreme Court ruled that U.S. presidents cannot be prosecuted for actions that were within their constitutional powers as president, marking the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution...
FBI Probing NYC Mayor Eric Adams Use of Private Email Addresses, Connections to Communist China
On June 25, the New York Post reported that federal agents are currently investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ use of private email addresses and how documentation from seven different trips he made to...
Sweltering Temperatures Trigger Heat Alerts in at Least 19 States
New York State and at least another 18 others are sweltering under a “heat dome” that is expected to only worsen throughout the week, according to forecasters. In New York temperatures are expected to continue...
US Justice Department Tasked With Determining Whether or Not to Criminally Charge Boeing
After an intense and at times emotionally charged Senate committee hearing on June 18, where Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was grilled by lawmakers over the aerospace giant’s safety record, U.S. Justice Department prosecutors are now...
Trump Proposes Replacing Income Tax With Tariffs as Primary Source of Federal Revenue
On June 13 during a light-hearted conversation with congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in this November’s presidential election, floated the idea of eliminating the federal income tax — the...