December 2022

Will inflation be the straw that breaks the American middle class?

(AP) — Is this the long-foretold death knell of the American middle class?

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Buffalo faces more snow after deadliest storm in decades

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Stormbattered Buffalo braced Tuesday for fresh snow while still counting fatalities and striving to recover from the deadliest storm in western New York in at least two generations.

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Wall Street opening lower; S&P off 0.2 percent after holiday break

BANGKOK (AP) — Wall Street is reopening Tuesday with stocks slightly lower following a holiday break. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is flat just after the open, while the technologyheavy Nasdaq composite fell 0.6 percent.

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First Congress revealed Biden’s generational ambition

WASHINGTON (AP) — When he ran for the White House, Joe Biden told voters his presidency would be a bridge to the next generation. His first two years on the job have revealed it to be a much more ambitious venture.

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Don’t drink and drive

“ There’s only one thing worse than being driven to drink, and that’s driving yourself home from it.” – American Author Evan Esar Fatalities and alcohol-related crashes tend to increase around this time of year, with many people hosting parties to celebrate the new year’s dawning.

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We made it through another year

M any people throughout the world use the New Year holiday as a time to reflect on the previous year and make resolutions for the year ahead.

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Most Americans don’t know how bad the border crisis

T his week could mark the most consequential development on the U.S.-Mexico border since January 2021, when President Joe Biden essentially opened the nation’s doors to millions of illegal border crossers. Depending on how court fights turn out, Title 42, the Trumpera measure that allows the U.S. government to quickly return illegal crossers to Mexico on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID, will likely soon expire. After that, officials expect a flood of illegal crossers, all coming into the United States confident that they, like hundreds of thousands before them just this year, will be allowed to stay.