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High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in ... Read More

Inflation Is Stubborn. Is the Federal Budget Deficit Making It Worse?

Economists are divided over whether the growing amount of federal borrowing is fueling demand and driving up prices. Read More

World News

To lure swiftlets, whose saliva-built nests fetch high prices in China ... the athletes’ village for the 2024 Games, is leading a rapid transformation of the long-struggling city. Read More

Warren Buffett says taxes may rise to offset widening US deficits

Warren Buffett said he expects the U.S. government to increase taxes to tackle widening fiscal deficits rather than reduce spending. Read More

Six-Month Federal Budget Deficit: $1.1 Trillion

Images: AP/Bloomberg News Composite ... to spend like deficits and debt don’t matter, and the politicians would rather you don’t know. For the record, the Congressional Budget Office reported ... Read More

Mesa plans for $36M budget deficit. Here's what that means for you

Every Mesa department will take a 2% cut to address a multi-million budget ... tax increases or bed tax increases have not been discussed as a way to supplement that $36.5 million deficit, Brady ... Read More

WITF News Stories

May 1, 2024 • A bill to help counties process mail-in ballots by Election Day will move from the state House to the Senate. WITF's Jordan Wilkie reports the county commissioners association says ... Read More

Budget deficit projected to narrow further this year

THE National Government’s (NG) fiscal deficit is seen to narrow further this year as revenue collections are likely to exceed targets, Fitch Solutions’ unit BMI said. “We forecast the Philippine ... Read More

The Blair Witch Project: the story of how a low-budget film shook the world and changed horror forever

Given the calibre of the last two Blair Witch-es, though, news of this next one seems inconsequential ... as legendary as the movie itself, is the story of making it. Instead of opening credits ... Read More

As SPS faces a massive budget deficit, here’s what to expect

The Seattle school district faces a projected budget deficit of $104 million-$111 million ... Student-to-teacher ratios could also increase in secondary schools, from 30:1 to 31:1. Read More

World News

King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch connect with the people of Britain and strengthened the monarchy in the year since his dazzling ... Read More

World News

President Joe Biden says Japan’s attempts to set up a leader-to-leader summit with North Korea is “a good thing,” and reiterated his administration’s willingness for its own talks without ... Read More