Mortgage interest rates rose last week for the third straight week, hitting the highest level since August. That caused demand from both current homeowners and potential homebuyers to take a big step back. Total mortgage application volume fell 17% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($766,550 or less) increased to...

A Georgia judge halted a rule requiring the mandatory hand-counting of ballots on election night. The rule had been put in place by the Georgia Election Board, which maintains that the process is needed to ensure election integrity. Democrats argued that hand counting would drag out the results and cause uncertainty. On Tuesday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that the hand counting requirement was passed too close to Election Day and would create uncertainty and...

Despite concerns over the falling birthrate, especially on the right, the Times Opinion columnist David French recognizes that the push to have more families — and bigger ones — has become problematic. In this audio essay, French explains why he thinks the recent political conversation on the topic reveals “the worst form of natalism.” Below is a lightly edited transcript of the audio piece. To listen to this piece, click the play button below. America Needs More Children. JD Vance’s...

A Georgia judge late on Tuesday blocked a new rule passed that required hand counting of ballots on election night, delivering another blow to GOP election officials in the state—many of whom falsely blame election fraud for Donald Trump’s loss in the state in 2020—just hours after the same judge issued another ruling requiring local officials to certify election results. In his ruling, Georgia Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said the hand count rule was “too much, too...

After Georgia voters began heading to the polls Tuesday for the first day of early voting in the state, a judge enjoined election officials from moving forward with a controversial new rule that would require the hand counting of ballots when polls close on Nov. 5.  Judge Robert McBurney called the rule "too much, too late." The judge expressed concern that the "11th-and-one-half hour implementation of the hand count rule" would lessen public confidence in the election...

The legend of overpopulation was born in the 1960s.  Since then, population alarmists have fantasised that global overpopulation will cause mass migration, overcrowded slums and megacities covering continents, diseases and pollution, chaos […]

from YourNews: Child sex trafficking cases have surged under the Biden-Harris administration, with new reports revealing a tripling of youth trafficking incidents since 2020, raising alarms about U.S. border policies. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom A recent report has revealed a shocking surge in child sex trafficking cases under the Biden-Harris administration, with numbers tripling since […]

by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization: In the midst of wars which threaten to grow to World Wars, perhaps triggering nuclear war, a group of more than 40 nations will gather to discuss a peaceful transition away from the bankrupt Unipolar Order, dominated by Anglo-American corporate cartels. The wars in eastern Europe and Southwest Asia are […]