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               | 22.10.25 - 17:57 | Senate GOP Mull Filibuster Reform To End Shutdown (ZeroHedge) |  
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                     Senate GOP Mull Filibuster Reform To End Shutdown
            As Democrats continue to dig in their heels over Obamacare, Senate Republicans are now considering changing the filibuster's rules to end the shutdown. 
Senate Majority Leader John Thune , June 24, 2025. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Shutterstock)
"Nobody talked about filibuster two weeks ago. Now that we see that the Democrats are just not going to agree to anything, then that's probably a viable option," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told The Hill. "I don't know the answer to this. I don't think anybody does because they're not going to give; we're not going to give. So it's going to be a stalemate, and the loser is going to be the American people."
Tuberville notably defended keeping the filibuster after Republicans won control of the Senate in last year's election, while other GOP senators are predicting that President Trump will start pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to change the Senate rules if the shu...
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               | 13.08.25 - 03:42 | The 16 Midterm Races That Could Determine Who Controls The Next Congress (ZeroHedge) |  
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                     The 16 Midterm Races That Could Determine Who Controls The Next Congress
            Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The first 2026 midterm primaries are more than 200 days away, with Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas kicking off inter-party preliminaries on March 3, 2026, but many congressional races are taking shape as incumbents and challengers launch campaigns.
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock, Alvesgaspar/CC
Among the most closely-watched contests will be for supremacy in the House of Representatives, where Republicans now hold a 220-213 advantage.
Democrats believe they can flip the chamber while the GOP is gunning to increase its majority in the Nov. 3, 2026 election.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has identified 35 Republican-held congressional districts “in play,” while the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has a “target list” of 26 “vulnerable” incumbent Democrats it believes GOP challengers can uns...
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               | 06.08.25 - 13:48 | Cash Sent Home By Mexicans Craters 16.2% In June As More Immigrants Leave US Workforce (ZeroHedge) |  
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                     Cash Sent Home By Mexicans Craters 16.2% In June As More Immigrants Leave US Workforce
            The amount of cash being sent home by Mexicans living in the United States cratered in the first half of 2025 - with June marking the third consecutive monthly increase.
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According to Banxico, Mexico's national bank, remittances from the United States have fallen by nearly 6% since January, and 16.2% during the month of June - when only $5.2 billion was sent back to Mexico, vs $6.207 billion in the same month in 2024. 
And while the bank reports that the average amount being sent back is higher than in 2024 at $409, the number of people sending money back has dropped by 14%. 
Executives at Western Union recently admitted on an earnings call that the outflow of hot money from the United States has slowed amid the crackdown on illegal aliens.
CFO Matt Cagwin told Wall Street analysts that they "continued to see weakness in North America, driven by immigration policy, which led to a sl...
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               | 29.07.25 - 13:06 | Shutterstock Reports Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results (PR Newswire) |  
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                     NEW YORK, July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) (the "Company"), a leading global creative platform offering high-quality creative content for transformative brands, digital media and marketing companies, today announced financial results for the second quarter......
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