The U.S. budget deficit increased 23 percent to $1.7 trillion, an increase of $320 billion, in the year after the Biden administration pushed through the Inflation Reduction Act which it claimed would close the government’s funding gap.
A suicidal man had a good view of the sunset over the Hudson River from his perch on the side of a Manhattan overpass earlier this month. It would likely have been the last thing he'd ever see — apart from the pavement below — were it not for New York Police Department officers Carl Fayette and Eleodor Mata.
Former President Donald Trump faced a $5,000 penalty this Friday due to a derogatory post concerning a court official related to his civil fraud trial in New York.
In a move referred to as "historic" by MP Ina Shofshun, the Ukrainian parliament took unprecedented strides today by approving a bill that targets the Orthodox Church linked to the Moscow Patriarchate.