The Supreme Court is casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship in a consequential case that was magnified by Trump’s unparalleled presence in the courtroom. Conservative and liberal justices on Wednesday questioned whether Trump’s order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens comports with either the Constitution or federal law. Trump, the first sitting president to attend arguments at the nation’s highest court, spent just over an hour inside the courtroom for arguments made by the Republican administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, Solicitor General D. John Sauer. The president departed…
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JetBlue Airways just increased checked bag fees for the first time since March 2024, bringing the minimum cost to check a bag from $35 to $39. Fees now cost $4 to $9 more, depending on travel dates. This news comes amid rising jet fuel prices and may raise concerns among travelers about whether other major U.S. airlines will follow suit. Here’s what you need to know. How much more will travelers pay? Effective March 30, JetBlue raised checked bag fees by $4 to $9, depending on travel dates. The new prices apply to all bookings made on or after that…
??Ireland, mainly Northern Ireland, has seen rising tensions over rapid immigration, asylum accommodation & integration issues. Many ordinary citizens have legitimate concerns about housing shortages, crime, and cultural change. Those deserve open, democratic debate & not armed… pic.twitter.com/q1hrcEkvjr — Mantrashree (@DivyaParihar007) March 31, 2026 An armed group identifying itself as the “New Republican Movement” has issued warnings to Irish politicians, accusing them of flooding communities with what they describe as military-age men and claiming that cultural and religious identity is under threat, and while governments will immediately dismiss such statements as fringe or extreme, the existence of these groups is…
The constant race on the work treadmill doesn’t just steal your time. It systematically decays every relationship you have. During a recent keynote, I asked leaders in the room a simple question: “How many of you have cancelled plans with someone you care about, family, friends, a partner, because something came up at work?” Nearly every hand went up. Then I asked: “How many of you have done it more than once this month?” Most hands stayed up. There were a few nervous laughs. Recognition ripples through the room. These aren’t disengaged leaders. They’re high performers who genuinely believe they’ll…
The latest IRS data makes one thing clear. The United States is undergoing a massive redistribution of wealth between states, and it is being driven almost entirely by tax policy. California lost $11.9 billion and New York lost $9.9 billion in income in a single year, while Florida gained $20.6 billion. This is not random migration. This is capital responding to incentives. States like Florida, Texas, and Tennessee have positioned themselves as low-tax environments, and they are now absorbing wealth at an unprecedented pace. Florida alone has become the primary destination for high-income earners exiting high-tax jurisdictions. What is important…
If you’ve been thinking about joining Sam’s Club, you may want to act fast: The annual membership fee will go up $10 starting next month. The Walmart-owned chain of warehouse stores has been emailing existing members this week to alert them of the price increases. Effective May 1, a standard Sam’s Club membership will cost $60, up from $50, while the cost of a Plus membership will increase from $110 to $120. The company is clearly trying to push more people to its higher-cost Plus membership, as it’s also upped the cap on its 2% cash-back rewards these members can…
The latest JOLTS report for February 2026 is being interpreted by the mainstream press as a “cooling” labor market, but they are once again missing the broader cyclical picture. What we are looking at here is not simply a softening in hiring. This is a transition phase that aligns directly with the turning point structure we have been warning about going into 2026 as a Panic Cycle year. Job openings declined by 358,000 to 6.882 million, falling below expectations and continuing a downward trend from 7.2 million in January. Hiring collapsed by nearly 500,000 to just 4.849 million, marking the…
If you don’t pay attention, you could miss it. There is a secret alligator emoji game hidden in your TikTok DMs. And while this news is coming on April Fools’ Day, it’s no joke—this easter egg (on the first day of Passover) is real! Here’s what to know. How to find TikTok’s hidden emoji game in your DMs Here’s how to find it: Go into your TikTok messages as if you were sending a DM, and send an emoji, then look for a tiny link that reads “Tap emoji to play emoji game.” Click the link, and you’ll see a…
There is a budget line in your business that no one is managing. According to research by Leadership IQ, confirmed across multiple subsequent studies, the average 18-month failure rate across industries is 46%—meaning nearly one in two hires either underperforms significantly or leaves within 18 months. The cost of each of those failures runs between 50% and 200% of that employee’s annual salary, accounting for recruiting costs, onboarding investment, lost productivity, team disruption, and replacement. Run the math. A company making 50 hires a year at average fully-loaded salaries of $95,000—not a large organization, just a growing one—is sitting on…
A typical map of temperatures across the planet shows just a snapshot in time, listing the day’s various highs and lows. But temperature isn’t static; it rises and falls, and it’s influenced by all sorts of systems, from ocean currents to solar radiation. An animated map from Maps.com shows those variations, revealing the patterns that swirl around our planet—and depicting the gradual way Earth heats up from east to west as the sun rises and sets. [Image: Maps.com] The animated map is part of a new feature called Earth in Action, through which Maps.com (a platform by spatial analytics company…