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OTTUMWA — Citing a growing shortage of truck drivers, U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn announced Monday he will invest $1 million in new heavy-duty truck cabs to train students at Indian Hills Community College.Surrounded by university President Matt Thompson and other university officials, Nunn said the truck will become part of the university’s Truck Driver Education Center on North Campus.The findings were included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, which was passed in a bipartisan manner by both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden on March 9. “This will create more truck…
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed and angel deals for New York City startups on July 2, 2024. Featuring funding details from K Health, UNCAGED Innovations and more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect new funding. K Health – $50 million K Health, an AI-powered primary care platform, has raised an additional $50 million in funding led by Claure Group. Founded in 2016 by Adam Singolda, Allon Bloch, Israel Roth and Ran Shaul, K Health has reportedly raised a total of $380.3 million in equity funding to date. UNCAGED Innovations – $5.6 million UNCAGED Innovations, a…
Three Western leaders took big gambles by overestimating their own political skills and underestimating the anti-incumbency mood. These gambles appear to have backfired, one after another. President Biden should study what is happening in Paris and London as he considers whether to continue his campaign.French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a humiliating defeat on Sunday in the first round of early parliamentary elections he called to gain a new mandate. His centrist coalition finished in third place, far behind the far-right Rally National and the left-leaning New Popular Front. Macron bet that French voters would rally to his support to prevent…
In the weeks and months before President Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations.Like many people his age, Mr. Biden, 81, has long experienced instances in which he mangled a sentence, forgot a name or mixed up a few facts, even though he could be sharp and engaged most of the time. But in interviews, people in the room with him more recently said that the lapses seemed to…
The latest JOLTS data (Job Openings and Labor Mobility Survey) shows some resilience in the labor market with job openings increasing. Matthew Ruzzetti, Chief U.S. Economist at Deutsche Bank, joins Market Domination to provide insight into the latest employment data and what it means for the labor, housing and stock markets going forward.”If you look at the JOLTS data this morning, you said job openings increased, but actually the employment rate is up and the turnover rate is stabilizing at a somewhat lower level than it has been for the last six months. But when you put all of this…
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for official acts committed while in office. This partial immunity ruling – that presidents do not enjoy absolute immunity for non-official acts committed while in office – is a stunning example of institutional arrogance and reckless judicial activism.Instead of determining specifically whether special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal charges against Trump for election interference were invalidated by presidential immunity, the court acknowledged a broader purpose. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, declared:[W]”We cannot afford to focus solely or primarily on the present emergency.” In…
Instead of defending himself against a tsunami of attack ads about his own diminished intellectual ability, Biden can bombard the airwaves with a series of arguments that answer Trump’s lies and remind voters that they chose him in 2020 because they knew that to stay great, America needed to be led by a unifier, not an avenger.An ad might begin with the most outrageous lie Trump uttered during last Thursday’s debate – about how disastrous the U.S. economy has been since Biden took office. To which Biden might respond:Donald, I read that you have to pay $88.3 million in damages…
(Photo: Richmond Police Department) RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond business owner is trying to recover from an attempted robbery that happened early Monday morning. According to the Richmond Police Department, just before 1 a.m., three suspects attempted to break into the business along North 8th Street by crashing through the front of the store in a stolen Honda Accord. The store affected in the incident was Tom Kirkland Opticians, and owner Thomas Kirkland said he’s been working to clean up the store ever since. “I wasn’t getting much sleep, I wasn’t eating much because I had to stay safe,”…
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday for making false statements about the 2020 election.”The seriousness of defendants’ fraudulent conduct cannot be overstated,” the state appeals court said in its ruling, adding that Giuliani “baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this nation’s election process.”Giuliani was admitted to the New York bar in 1969 but had already been banned from practicing law in the state.The court ordered that Giuliani be “immediately disqualified from the practice of law and until further order of this Court, his…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke publicly for the first time on Tuesday since the central bank’s preferred inflation gauge showed price growth in May at its slowest rate in more than three years.While Powell remained cautious, he acknowledged that recent data suggests things are heading in the right direction.Jennifer Schonberger of Yahoo Finance reports:Powell said Tuesday he was encouraged by slowing inflation but stressed he believes the central bank needs to see more evidence before cutting interest rates.The two most recent inflation readings, from April and May, “suggest that we are returning to a disinflationary trajectory,” Powell said on…