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'Bringing people downtown' in Marshall

MARSHALL — Country music singer Jake Nelson sat on the stage guitar in the middle of 3rd Street entertained the crowd that showed up for the Eats and Beats event Thursday evening. “Thank you everyone for coming out tonight,” he said. The city of Marshall hosted its first “Eats and ...

Senate passes a bipartisan housing bill aimed at increasing supply and lowering prices

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a bipartisan housing bill on Monday that aims to reduce federal regulations and expand local control, one of the most sweeping efforts in recent decades to increase supply and bring down prices. The bill, which passed 85-5 and now heads to the House, has been the focus of intense negotiations in recent weeks as lawmakers in both parties try to address housing costs in an election year. The final version of the legislation bans corporate investors from buying single-family homes but doesn't include a Senate provision that would have required ...

Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration's election integrity strategy is unlawful and can no longer be used. U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans' sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls. "All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy ...

US stocks drift after oil prices ease and Big Tech stocks fall

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted through a mixed day of trading on Monday after oil prices eased and falling Big Tech stocks weighed on Wall Street. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4%, coming off its 11th winning week in the last 12, and pulled 1.8% below its all-time high set early this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 148 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite slumped 1.3%. In the oil market, prices fell following talks over the weekend between the United States and Iran on their war. U.S. Vice President JD Vance said they created a "good foundation for a successful ...