7. According to a recent report from Redfin, buying a home in the U.S. has become increasingly costly, with the median home price reaching a record high of $383,725, marking a 5.2 percent increase from a year ago. Even with super-high interest rates, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has surged to 7.1 percent, the highest since November 2023, leading to a record median monthly housing payment of $2,843, up 13 percent from the same period last year.
6. Believe it or not, two things are happening with the 2024 presidential election: polls tightening, with former President Donald Trump still leading, and interest in the election is at an ALL TIME LOW. With registered voters, President Joe Biden is now leads Trump by 0.5 percentage points across eight polls while in a likely voter poll average, Trump leads by 47.3 percent to 44.7 percent in a two-way race, and in a five-way race, his lead extends to 43.7 percent to 40 percent across four polls
5. The fight against unions continues in Alabama as the Mercedes plant in Vance will soon see a vote to joining the union take place and now leaders are fighting back, even though Labor Secretary Julie Siu is telling tell Alabama to back off. Alabama Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) said, “The UAW business model is simple: Weaponize the workforce, drive up costs, destroy quality and send the state’s auto industry up in smoke” and Governor Kay Ivey referred to them as a “corrupt, shifty and a dangerous leech.”
4. U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), and others, are demanding President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to take action against riots on college campuses and protect Jewish students. The group of dozens of U.S. Senators emphasized the need for immediate federal intervention to address anti-Semitic incidents, stating that such actions violate federal laws and could lead to consequences such as schools losing access to federal funds or individuals facing deportation for supporting terrorist groups like Hamas.
3. Not content to only rot the brains of college kids, they are targeting little kids now. A “Queer Storytime for Palestine” event at the Northampton Center for the Arts in Massachusetts has a lot of people up after a drag queen, Lil Miss Hot Mess, led children in chanting “Free Palestine.” The insane event, organized by Valley Families for Palestine but not officially sanctioned by Hamas, included activities celebrating Palestinian culture and donated profits to alQaws, a Palestinian organization advocating for queer liberation.
2. Alabama schools have avoided the stupid nonsense taking place on other campuses, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) wants in on the anti-Semitism and brain-dead takes, including demanding a Palestinian flag on a wall showing where students come from when it is already there. The Student Senate, a worthless organization full of nerds, issued a pathetic resolution that “condemns the ongoing occupation, settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1948” (not true) and “plausible genocide of Gaza since 2023.” (also, not true).
1. Former President Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity seems unlikely to be successful, with delay being the endgame, but conservative justices on the court posed pointed inquiries to the special counsel’s attorney that lined up with Trump’s assertion that lacking any form of immunity could lead to politically driven prosecutions against future presidents. On other legal issues, an appeal was rejected in the E. Jean Carroll case and Trump now has to pay a ridiculous $83.3 million to a woman that could not tell a jury the date or location of her alleged sexual assault.
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and from 10-11 a.m. on Talk 99.5 and News Radio 1440, with a rebroadcast Talk Radio 103.9 FM/730AM WUMP from 3-4 p.m.
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