VOL. 49 | NO. 2 | Friday, January 3, 2025
RICHARD COURTNEY: REALTY CHECK
With 2025 crashing down upon us and interest rates approaching 7% again, it would be impossible to predict what will happen in residential real estate in the coming year.
REAL ESTATE
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. mortgage rates rose this week to the highest level since July.
TENNESSEE TITANS
Decisions, decisions. After this weekend’s developments around the NFL, the Tennessee Titans might finally find some sort of reward for this season’s consistent futility.
Maybe Brian Callahan has already made his decision. Maybe he believes Mason Rudolph truly gives the Titans a better chance to win because he operates the offense better.
The Titans will close out their most dismal season since a horrid 5-27 stretch in 2014-15 that ushered in plenty of change. Who knows what Amy Adams Strunk will decide after Sunday’s finale against the Texans with the Titans wearing the Houston Oilers throwbacks. She’s been impulsive before. But for now, what would the Titans have to do to actually close the season with a win?
UT SPORTS
The University of Tennessee men’s basketball team will begin SEC play ranked No. 1 in the country. If the Vols end SEC play in the same spot, they will have earned it.
NEWSMAKERS
Ian Joseph has joined McGlinchey Stafford, where he represents financial institutions in a variety of litigated matters, focusing on mortgage lenders, loan servicers and service providers.
BRIEFS
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Tennessee Department of Health are addressing the urgent public health crisis of dementia in Tennessee through the launch of the Tennessee Dementia ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Program.
BEHIND THE WHEEL
Just about everyone has a car they wish they could own, and there’s no better time than the holidays to make a list of vehicles you’d love to have in your driveway.
BUSINESS BOOK REVIEW
Get lots of rest. That’s always good advice when you’re ailing. Don’t overdo. Don’t try to be Superman or Supermom, just rest and follow your doctor’s orders.
TENNESSEE TITANS
NASHVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have been granted permission to interview Catherine Hickman by the Cleveland Browns as the team looks for a new general manager, a person familiar with the request told The Associated Press.
UT SPORTS
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Tennessee coach Rick Barnes walked into the locker room and delivered a brief message to his downtrodden team: "This is good for us."
VANDERBILT SPORTS
NASHVILLE (AP) — RJ Melendez scored 19 points and No. 14 Mississippi State beat Vanderbilt 76-64 on Tuesday night for its eighth straight victory.
NASHVILLE PREDATORS
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Morgan Barron and Josh Morrissey scored 16 seconds apart to help Winnipeg Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck record his 300th NHL career win 5-2 over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
COURTS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it intends to release special counsel Jack Smith's findings on Donald Trump's efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election but will keep under wraps for now the rest of the report focused on the president-elect's hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York.
NEW YORK (AP) — On the night Stephanie Cosme died, her sister and brother said they received a curt explanation from a U.S. Air Force official who met them at the hospital: The civilian contractor was failing to follow protocol when she was hit by an aircraft's rotating propeller and killed.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups, months after Bonta sued the oil and gas giant alleging that it deceived the public for half a century by promising the plastics it produced would be recycled.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors will ask a judge on Wednesday for six years in prison for a former FBI informant whose bogus story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes became central to Republicans' impeachment effort.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the United States.
HEALTH CARE
WASHINGTON (AP) — A record 24 million people have signed up for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama's landmark health legislation, as the program awaits an uncertain future under a Republican-controlled White House and Congress.
ENVIRONMENT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday.
YOUR MONEY
WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS boosted taxpayer services through Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act but still faces processing claims from a coronavirus pandemic-era tax credit program and is slow to resolve certain identity theft cases, according to an independent watchdog report released Wednesday.
RELIGION
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic Church's religious orders.
MEDIA
NEW YORK (AP) — At a particularly inopportune time for legacy media and CNN, the news outlet is on trial in Florida this week, accused of defaming a Navy veteran involved in rescuing endangered Afghans from that country when the U.S. ended its involvement there in 2021.
Hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately? You're not the only one. Amid a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, content creators have been pushing the platform's sister app. Lemon8 resembles an amalgamation of the types of short-form videos found on TikTok and the picture-perfect aesthetic of Instagram and Pinterest.
ENERGY
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the state has challenged as too restrictive and at odds with a 2017 law aimed at opening the refuge's sweeping coastal plan to exploration and development.
New tax credits are available for companies that generate clean electricity, the Biden administration announced Tuesday, while arguing it would be a mistake for President-elect Donald Trump to try to undo them.
ECONOMY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials at their meeting Dec. 17-18 expected to dial back the pace of interest rate cuts this year in the face of persistently elevated inflation and the threat of widespread tariffs and other potential policy changes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top policymaker at the U.S. Federal Reserve said Wednesday that he still supports cutting interest rates this year, despite elevated inflation and the prospect of widespread tariffs under the incoming Trump administration.
U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in nearly a year last week, pointing to a still healthy labor market with historically low layoffs.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, in a new interview days before he leaves office, cast doubt on his fitness to serve another four years even as he maintained that he could have won election to a second term.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson often says he sees himself as the quarterback and President-elect Donald Trump as the coach calling plays on their legislative priorities as Republicans take power in Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan praise and ceremonial pomp the Georgia Democrat rarely enjoyed at his political peak.
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," a name he said has a "beautiful ring to it."
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7
TENNESSEE TITANS
NASHVILLE (AP) — General manager Ran Carthon paid the price for the Tennessee Titans going 9-25 in his two seasons.
UT SPORTS
Chaz Lanier of Tennessee is the AP men's college basketball player of the week. He is the second straight player from the top-ranked Vols to take home the award after Zakai Zeigler on New Year's Eve.
SEC SPORTS
The SEC spent the first couple weeks of the men's college basketball season beating up on the rest of the nation, and the result was No. 1 Tennessee and second-ranked Auburn leading nine teams from the league into this week's AP Top 25.
MUSIC INDUSTRY
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.
COURTS
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on investigations into Donald Trump as an appeals court weighs a challenge to the disclosure of a much-anticipated document just days before the president-elect reclaims office.
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is still set to be sentenced in his hush money case this week — at least for now — after a New York appeals court judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected his second attempt to get it called off.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Monday it had transferred 11 Yemeni men to Oman this week after holding them for more than two decades without charge at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
AUTO INDUSTRY
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators have opened an investigation into 2.6 million Teslas after reports of crashes involving the use of company technology that allows drivers to remotely command their vehicle to return to them, or move to another location, using a phone app.
HEALTH CARE
Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on credit reports, where they can block people from mortgages, car loans or small business loans, according to a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration.
NEW YORK (AP) — Lenders will no longer be able to consider unpaid medical bills as a credit history factor when they evaluate potential borrowers in the U.S. for mortgages, car loans or business loans, according to a rule the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized Tuesday.
ENERGY
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump complained on Tuesday that President Joe Biden was undermining his transition to power a day after the incumbent moved to ban offshore energy drilling in most federal waters.
TECHNOLOGY
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is rolling out a consumer labeling system designed to help Americans pick smart devices that are less vulnerable to hacking.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marveled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a dark-haired woman walked through ornate gilded double doors and took in the rays of light that poured in through stained glass windows.
MEDIA
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it's scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social media platform X.
NEW YORK (AP) — Visual content companies Shutterstock and Getty Images will join to become a $3.7 billion visual content company.
ECONOMY
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in November, showing companies are still looking for workers even as the labor market has cooled overall.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
NEW YORK (AP) — A national rights group said Tuesday that more U.S. companies are providing strong benefits and protections to LGBTQ+ employees despite an ongoing effort by conservative activists to get high-profile brands to stop participating in the organization's annual workplace report card.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion investment for data centers in the United States by an Emirati company led by billionaire Hussain Sajwani, a close business partner of the Trump family.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vowing to stop machines from taking their jobs, 45,000 U.S. longshoremen are threatening to go on a strike that would shut down ports on the East and Gulf coasts and could damage the American economy just as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.
Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, including Dana White, the president and CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship and a familiar figure in the orbit of incoming President Donald Trump.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday.
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration in its final days is shifting more than $100 million in military aid from Israel and Egypt to Lebanon as it tries to bolster a ceasefire agreement it helped mediate between Israel and Hezbollah.
LONDON (AP) — Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win re-election, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time a president was inaugurated, there was a global pandemic and a violent siege at the very spot at the U.S. Capitol where the ceremony takes place. This time, the event is happening as part of an unprecedented string of high-stakes security events in the nation's capital.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Living to 100 let Jimmy Carter fulfill his wish to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris against Republican Donald Trump in November. His death means flags at the White House will be at half-staff when Trump regains the presidency on Jan. 20.
HONG KONG (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department has added dozens of Chinese companies, including games and technology company Tencent, artificial intelligence firm SenseTime and the world's biggest battery maker CATL, to a list of companies it says have ties to China's military, prompting some to protest and say they will seek to have the decision reversed.
BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to reject a bid by Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel on national security grounds isn't the first time friction over trade and investment has irked Washington's closest ally in Asia.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans say immigration should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2025, as the country heads toward a new Republican administration in which President-elect Donald Trump has promised the mass deportations of migrants and an end to birthright citizenship.
MONDAY, JANUARY 6
UT SPORTS
Tennessee tightened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25 on Monday following a pair of lopsided wins, including one over SEC rival Arkansas, that left the Volunteers as the only undefeated team in men's Division I college basketball.
TENNESSEE TITANS
NASHVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee Titans are embarrassed, angry and a bit relieved the season is over after the promise bolstered by one of the NFL's biggest offseason spending sprees disappeared into a 3-14 record and the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft next April.
NASHVILLE (AP) — The Houston Texans gave what coach DeMeco Ryans wanted from their trip to Music City.
COURTS
NASHVILLE (AP) — A Tennessee law requiring pornographic websites to verify their visitors' age was largely blocked in court before it was to take effect Jan. 1, even as similar laws kicked in for Florida and South Carolina and remained in effect for more than a dozen other states.
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday moved to indefinitely postpone this week's sentencing in his hush money case as he appeals a ruling that upheld the verdict and put him on course to be the first president to take office convicted of crimes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a Biden administration decision to block Nippon's proposed $15 billion acquisition of the Pittsburgh company and said that the head of the Steelworkers union and a rival steelmaker worked together to scuttle the buyout.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the largest prosecution in Justice Department history — with reams of evidence, harrowing videos and hundreds of convictions of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now Donald Trump's return to power has thrown into question the future of the more than 1,500 federal cases brought over the last four years.
TRAVEL
Winter weather often causes flight delays and cancellations. While airlines can't control the weather, they are required in the U.S. to provide refunds to customers whose flights are canceled. Here's what to know about your rights, and what to know when cancellations start piling up:
MEDIA
Disney's Hulu + Live TV and sports streaming service Fubo are combining in a deal that will also see the settlement of a lawsuit against the creation of Venu Sports.
TECHNOLOGY
NEW YORK (AP) — CES, the annual trade show of all things tech, is upon us. The multi-day event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, kicks off this week in Las Vegas — where swaths of the latest gadgets and advances across industries like personal tech, transportation, health care, sustainability and more are set to be on display. And, like last year, artificial intelligence is everywhere you look.
NEW YORK (AP) — The man who drove a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year's Day, killing 14, had previously scouted the French Quarter and recorded video with his Meta smart glasses, the FBI said.
ENERGY
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
McDonald's is ending some of its diversity practices, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision outlawing affirmative action in college admissions.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says in a lawsuit that a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway "ignored clear and obvious red flags" that borrowers couldn't afford the mortgages they were given to buy manufactured homes from another Berkshire company.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve's top financial regulator said Monday that he would resign next month, avoiding a potential confrontation with the incoming Trump administration and Republicans in the Senate.
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation Monday after nearly a decade in power, bowing to rising discontent over his leadership and growing turmoil within his government signaled by the abrupt departure of his finance minister.
BANGKOK (AP) — China has slammed a decision by the U.S. Treasury to sanction a Beijing-based cybersecurity company for its alleged role in multiple hacking incidents targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, while the Chinese cyber security agency complained Monday of attacks on Chinese networks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking a message to the grieving families of victims in the deadly New Year's attack in New Orleans: "It takes time. You got to hang on."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings that unfolded Monday without challenge, in stark contrast to the Jan. 6, 2021, violence as his mob of supporters stormed the Capitol.
WASHINGTON (AP) — There was no drama on Monday as Kamala Harris oversaw the ceremonial certification of her defeat to Donald Trump. The vice president kept her remarks perfunctory, and she stood with her hands clasped in front of her while the results from each state were read out loud.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday called on incoming Democratic lawmakers who will govern in the minority to always be mindful of other people's perspectives — even when they may be wrong.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3
TENNESSEE TITANS
NASHVILLE (AP) — Will Levis will start at quarterback for the Tennessee Titans in their regular-season finale Sunday against the Houston Texans.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Houston coach DeMeco Ryans is balancing the need to keep his Texans healthy for their AFC wild-card playoff game against the desire to knock off rust after a long break leading into Sunday's regular-season finale.
The New York Jets interviewed former Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel on Friday for their head coaching vacancy.
COURTS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department, the judiciary's policymaking body said Thursday.
HEALTH CARE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer, a risk that should be clearly labeled on drinks Americans consume, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed on Friday.
TRAVEL
The Transportation Department said Friday it will hit JetBlue Airways with a $2 million penalty for chronically late flights along the East Coast, and half the money will go to passengers who were delayed.
TECHNOLOGY
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of turning its virtual assistant Siri into a snoop that eavesdropped on the users of iPhones and other trendy devices in a betrayal to its long-standing commitment to personal privacy.
TRANSPORTATION
A year after a panel blew out of a Boeing 737 Max during flight, the nation's top aviation regulator says the company needs "a fundamental cultural shift" to put safety and quality above profits.
CRIME
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A mix of law enforcement, street performers and football fans has filled New Orleans' blocks as the city inches back to normalcy while mourning victims of the deadly New Year's rampage in which an Army veteran plowed a truck into revelers.
BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Shamsud-Din Jabbar grew up in Texas, joined the U.S. Army and eventually settled in Houston, where he spun up a real estate business and made $120,000 a year for one of the world's largest consulting firms.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Walmart and work scheduling platform Branch Messenger for allegedly forcing delivery drivers that are part of the discounter's gig program to use costly deposit accounts to get paid and mispresented how they could access their wages.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has blocked the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow on the presidential campaign trail to prevent the acquisition of Steeltown USA's most storied steel company.
President Joe Biden blocked the $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan's Nippon Steel on Friday — something he had first vowed to do in March.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won reelection Friday to the House speakership on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts after a tense standoff and buoyed by a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to "ensure the Senate stays the Senate."
WASHINGTON (AP) — On Feb. 15, 1951, Army Pvt. Bruno R. Orig was returning from a mission when he found his fellow soldiers under attack in what's now known as the Battle of Chipyong-ni.
President Joe Biden began his term in the White House with a broad promise to protect transgender Americans against Republican policies that painted them as a threat to children and sought to push them out of public life.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Republicans say they are confident in the 2024 vote count after Donald Trump's win, according to a new poll that finds a sharp turnaround from GOP voters' skepticism about U.S. elections after the president-elect spent four years lying about his loss to President Joe Biden.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2
STATE GOVERNMENT
NASHVILLE (AP) — Just days after Tennessee announced it had a new manual for executing death row inmates, the state's top prison officials said they aren't going to release the document to the public.
AUTO INDUSTRY
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla's global annual sales fell for the first time in at least 9 years, with a 2.3% increase in the final quarter not enough to overcome a sluggish start to 2024 despite offers of 0% financing, free charging and low-priced leases.
TRANSPORTATION
Mexican airline Aeromexico had the world's best record for on-time arrivals in 2024, according to an annual ranking released Thursday. Delta Air Lines scored the highest among U.S. carriers despite a computer outage that caused thousands of flight cancellations in July.
CRIME
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in the deadly attack that officials said was inspired by the Islamic State group.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 15 people, had posted videos to social media hours before the carnage saying he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressing a desire to kill, the president said.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group wrought carnage on New Orleans' raucous New Year's celebration, killing 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An 18-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a nurse, a single mother, a father of two and a former Princeton football star suffered fatal injuries when the driver of a white pickup truck sped down Bourbon Street, packed with holiday revelers early Wednesday morning.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Investigators were looking into whether others were involved in the rampage that killed 15 people and injured dozens when the driver of a pickup truck sped through a crowd of pedestrians in New Orleans' bustling French Quarter district early on New Year's Day.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says it recovered the stark black banner of the Islamic State extremist group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year's partygoers in New Orleans' French Quarter Wednesday, killing 15 people.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The person inside the Tesla Cybertruck that burst into flames outside President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel suffered a gunshot to the head before the explosion, officials said Thursday.
ENTERTAINMENT
Movie ticket sales took a bit of a hit in 2024. The annual domestic box office is expected to end up at around $8.75 billion, down more than 3% from 2023, according to estimates from Comscore.
ECONOMY
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment checks dropped last week to the lowest level since March, suggesting that suggest most U.S. workers continue to enjoy unusually high job security.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Johnson is fighting for his political life, again.