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Americans’ incomes rose and poverty fell in 2025, Census Bureau says

Americans’ incomes rose and poverty fell in 2025, Census Bureau says

Published by Sam Flores

American flag is seen displayed at the Time Square in New York City, United States. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Americans’ inflation-adjusted incomes rose and poverty declined in 2025, according to new Census Bureau data released Tuesday, as the Federal Reserve meets to decide whether inflation still requires higher interest rates.  Real median household income rose by 2.6% to $87,460 last year, the Census Bureau reported as part of a suite of data releases Tuesday. The poverty rate fell by a nearly half-point to 10.2%. The poverty threshold for a family of four last year was $32,970. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent celebrated the data, which were released as he was testifying to a House committee about the economy. The Census Bureau data are “several inconvenient facts” for the Trump administration’s political opponents, he said.  Read more CNBC politics and policy coverage Democrats used the committee hearing to assail Bessent over high gas prices and other economic strains. The average rate for new 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose above 7% last week. Prices increases by …

Why Albert Camus Fell Out With the French Left

Why Albert Camus Fell Out With the French Left

Published by Sam Flores

Published: Sep 14, 2026written by Simon Lea, PhD Philosophy Summary Camus was expelled from the Communist Party for prioritizing Algerian rights over Stalin’s orders, leading to his early disillusionment. The 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact was a huge betrayal for Camus, for whom anti-fascism was a core principle. Rejecting a simple choice, Camus sought a non-Communist “third way” for the Left, opposing both US capitalism and Soviet oppression. His book The Rebel definitively split him from the Left by rejecting the idea that political goals could justify murder or oppression. Show more   Up until the publication of The Rebel in 1951, Albert Camus was firmly established as a member of the French left-wing intelligentsia. However, he was not a member of the Communist Party at a time when most people on the Left believed this to be the only effective means of left-wing activism. Camus refused to ignore the oppression and purges taking place in the USSR. In this article, we look at how Camus’ philosophy of the absurd influenced his beliefs that led to his falling out with the Left.   Was …

‘It was a sweet, tender voice’: the pilot who fell for his air traffic controller – before ever seeing her | Relationships

‘It was a sweet, tender voice’: the pilot who fell for his air traffic controller – before ever seeing her | Relationships

Published by Sam Flores

Alfredo Bravo had landed aeroplanes in a lot of sticky situations – as a bush pilot in Chilean Patagonia and as a commercial pilot in rural China – but it was a singular voice floating over the radio waves from air traffic control in Santiago, Chile, that set his heart aflutter, upended his concentration and reshuffled his life. It was the 1990s and, although he was still young, Bravo had held pretty much every low-level flying gig possible. He had dumped plumes of orange chemicals on to forest fires and flown surveillance missions to detect illegal fireplaces polluting the already smoggy Santiago airspace. He had completed hundreds of flights with photo crews operating a big Hasselblad camera as they mapped tree farms, calculating the heights of trees in a forest owned by a timber company involved in a low-level guerrilla war with the Indigenous Mapuche. As a pilot for the company, Bravo was a conspicuous outsider who slept in the fields amid the Indigenous communities, and worked alone in the hangar. But Bravo had a …

Why the U.S.-Canada Trade Talks Fell Apart

Why the U.S.-Canada Trade Talks Fell Apart

Published by Daniella Wilson

U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed last night. Punitive Trump tariffs will now go into effect. Canada will reciprocate with retaliatory tariffs of its own. The story may not be over. Donald Trump is notorious for issuing threats, then reversing them. Wars are on, off, on again, off again, then on a third time—but only as a “little detour.” This is not an administration that thinks even one move ahead. But without a supersized Trump TACO, the U.S.-Canada impasse likely won’t resolve soon. The Trump administration has one big idea about Canada: The U.S. is larger, stronger, and richer than Canada, so Canada must sooner or later surrender to Trump’s demands. That one big idea is wrong. Yes, Trump can hurt Canada more than Canada can hurt Trump. That part of Trump’s thinking is true. But wars are not decided only by the question Who can inflict more pain? Wars are also decided by the question Who can endure more pain? Trump’s failure to accept this truth is why he lost the Iran war—and why he is …

Boy, 5, who fell to death from 15th-floor flat ‘could have been trying to reach biscuits’

Boy, 5, who fell to death from 15th-floor flat ‘could have been trying to reach biscuits’

Published by Sam Flores

A young boy who fell to his death from a 15th-floor window had lived in a “clearly loving environment”, an inquest has been told. Aalim Ahmed died after falling from the kitchen window of a residential tower in Plaistow, east London. The five-year-old died instantly, with his “distraught” father Makail Ahmed running down from the top-floor temporary social housing flat to find his son’s body shortly before 6am on 16 May 2024. Mr Ahmed and the child’s mother, Sahra Osman, have blamed Newham Council and described his death as “preventable”, following reports that Ms Osman had repeatedly raised safety concerns about the property. Aalim’s parents stepped out of the proceedings at Walthamstow Coroners’ Court when audio capturing his final moments was played. The couple left the room on Tuesday while grainy CCTV audio recorded outside the building was played to those present. A young child’s voice is twice heard counting down “3, 2, 1” and “a loud clang” follows some seconds later, according to a statement read on behalf of Detective Constance Joe Linton who …

How Trump’s unprecedented effort to prosecute noncitizen voters fell apart

How Trump’s unprecedented effort to prosecute noncitizen voters fell apart

Published by Sam Flores

It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington. The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases to back up President Donald Trump’s claims that illegal voting by noncitizens was tipping the scales in American elections. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a massive federal law enforcement agency, had been dispatched to work leads across the country, including hundreds in Minnesota. Teirab was already under pressure. In an earlier missive, Nick Davis, a high-ranking Justice Department appointee helping to lead the election fraud crusade, had reminded him the cases were so high priority that Teirab and his staff couldn’t decline to move forward on them without express approval from agency higher-ups. On March 24, Davis demanded a status report — within hours. Teirab, a former Marine and a Harvard Law graduate who’d run unsuccessfully for Congress as a Republican, responded with a blunt reality check. “Bottom line up front,” he replied in an email reviewed by ProPublica. After subpoenaing records on about 130 people, …

His Rolex Submariner Fell Into a Lake 30 Years Ago. He’s Still Diving for It

His Rolex Submariner Fell Into a Lake 30 Years Ago. He’s Still Diving for It

Published by Jenni Sidey

Want more insider watch coverage? Get Box + Papers, GQ’s newsletter devoted to the watch world, sent to your inbox every Friday. Sign up here to get it free. Nestled off a short dirt road in the Adirondack Mountains, just beyond the reach of cellular service, lies Trout Lake. Overlooking the water is a cabin owned by 48-year-old Hollywood stuntman Tom Place, something of a local legend, known more in this small Upstate New York community for his weekend recreational activities than his formidable IMDb credits he’s racked up as a Hollywood stuntman. Because for many years now, Place has been routinely diving beneath the lake’s surface in search of something he lost more than three decades ago: his Rolex Submariner. While at the cabin, Place often runs the six-mile perimeter of the lake in the early morning hours. Tom’s family has spent summers in the area since 1979, and built their own cabin in 1991. When he first broke into the film and television industry in the ’90s, Place, who maintains an athletic, sturdy …

How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Fell Apart

How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Fell Apart

Published by Daniella Wilson

As government prosecutors examined the Reflecting Pool to build their case against a three-time Olympic canoeist accused of violently ripping the lining with his bare hands, everything fell apart. They found that damage was consistent all around the pool, even in the middle, “where a vandal would not likely attempt to peel the lining.” This evening, the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asked to drop the case against David Hearn, whom she had excoriated after his indictment 29 days ago. In a striking 19-page legal document filed late this afternoon, her office undermined everything that President Trump has been saying about the damage to the Reflecting Pool for the past six weeks, including the claim that vandals had used a box cutter to slash the floor of the pool. “The damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism,” Pirro’s office wrote in a motion to dismiss the case. Taken as a whole, the court filing acknowledged what has been obvious to anyone who has spent time at the Reflecting Pool in …

Kathy Hilton fell for the fake Jello-O diet. Here’s why you could be next

Kathy Hilton fell for the fake Jello-O diet. Here’s why you could be next

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Paris Hilton’s mother Kathy recently tried the “Jell-O diet” to lose weight. She believed other celebrities – Oprah Winfrey, Doctor Oz, Michelle Obama and Kelly Clarkson – had endorsed it. But the diet was fake and so were the endorsements. Both had been generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Commentators were quick to poke fun. One said: “Kathy is everyone’s grandma that you can’t keep off the internet reading crazy things.” Misleading health claims are easy to find online, not just about fake diets. Examples include misinformation about vaccines and the cholesterol-lowering drugs statins. Then there’s the growing online market for unapproved peptides. Health misinformation – false, misleading, exaggerated or unsupported claims about health, disease and medical treatments – can have consequences. It can delay …