Republicans and Christian right activists don't want to take responsibility for the loss of this healthy young mother of a 6-year-old boy. read more
Donald Trump made headlines Wednesday night, promising a crowd in New York he would, if restored to the White House, put a "temporary cap on credit-card interest rates ... at around 10%," if he were elected. Doing so would require Congress to pass legislation, a move lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have proposed in recent years. Consumer banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup earn a tidy share of the roughly $120 billion in credit-card interest and fees Americans pay each year, and industry groups have fought past efforts to cap fees by arguing that it would make it difficult for Americans to get approved for credit cards. Meanwhile, the analyst community isn't taking the former president's proposal too seriously, and is instead looking at Trump's bank-friendly first term as a guide for how investors should play a second Trump term, should he win. read more
A Florida sheriff released the mug shot and video of an 11-year-old child charged with a felony for allegedly making a written threat of a mass shooting. read more
No no no... look...Texas solved the problem...they ended all rapes.
Hotwheels said so.
news4sanantonio.com
The Lone Star State is ranked as the 15th most dangerous state for rape and sexual assault in the U.S.
Texas, according to FBI crime statistics, has a rate of 55.2 rapes and sexual assaults per 100,000 people. This is far lower than the most dangerous state, Alaska, which has a rate of 161.6 per 100,000.
NewJersey ranked last, having a rate of only 16 per 100,000.
Texas was ranked lower than bordering states New Mexico and Oklahoma. Michigan was granted No. 2, with a rate of 76.9 per 100,000.