Author: Omar Angelo Osborne

To help offset inflation and cost-of-living expenses, some Americans had to sell personal belongings or pull money from a savings or retirement account, while others got a new job or started a side hustle. However, many decided to move in with roommates or back home with family members to reduce their expenses. According to our survey, 72% believe multigenerational households are more accepted today due to cost-of-living hikes. 52% believe there is a stigma associated with moving back in with family as an adult. 41% believe there is a stigma associated with getting a roommate as an adult.(USN&WR) To highlight…

Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the House early Saturday, after a grueling days-long fight laid bare the divisions between parties – and within his own – in a dismal foreshadowing of the legislative process under the GOP majority in the next two years. The California Republican succeeded in swaying remaining holdouts to clinch the votes that appeared out of reach just days ago when ballot after ballot yielded almost no progress in a marathon week of voting unlike any speaker election since the Civil War. But on Friday morning, the tide began to shift for McCarthy, after negotiations earlier…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government is little more than a week old but it’s already giving the Biden administration headaches. Just days into its mandate, a controversial member of Netanyahu’s right-wing Cabinet riled U.S. diplomats with a visit to a Jerusalem holy site that some believe may be harbinger of other contentious moves, including vast expansions of Jewish settlement construction on land claimed by the Palestinians. And, Netanyahu’s government adopted punitive measures against the Palestinians that run in direct opposition to several recent Biden moves to boost U.S.-Palestinian relations, including restoring assistance to the Palestinian…

A coalition of US veterans groups is calling on President Joe Biden to intervene in the case of an Afghan national who fought alongside US forces and is now facing deportation after being detained at the US-Mexico border. Abdul Wasi Safi, called Wasi, was apprehended by US Border Patrol in September after crossing the US-Mexico border with a group of migrants. In a letter to Biden on Wednesday the groups said that as an Afgan Special Forces soldier, Safi “served faithfully alongside US Special Operations Forces” in Afghanistan, and “continued to support the Northern resistance against the Taliban” as the US and its allies withdrew forces in August…