Independence Day

Today we celebrate the 4th of July, and the birth of United States of America. On this day in 1776, 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress signed the ...

The law was only days old when the latest high-profile mass shooting, at an Independence Day celebration in Highland Park, Illinois, occurred. Congress is in ...

Small businesses were the most popular institution of those surveyed, with 68 percent confidence, a decline of only two percentage points from last year. If the U.S. is in or near one, it doesn’t yet look like any other on record. Just above them was television news, in which only 11 percent of Americans had confidence. Economic output fell in the first quarter and signs suggest it did so again in the second. The closely watched lawsuit is part of a flurry of activity that has occurred nationwide since the Supreme Court ruled. The least popular institution was Congress, in which only seven percent of respondent had confidence, down five points from last year. The jobless rate fell from 4% last December to 3.6% in May. Yet the job market showed little sign of faltering during the first half of the year. One key difference is that waves of layoffs that accompanied those downturns may not occur. The law was only days old when the latest high-profile mass shooting, at an Independence Day celebration in Highland Park, Illinois, occurred. The subpoenas, were filed July 5 and signed off by Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who is overseeing the special grand jury. The suspect has prominent facial tattoos.