Read more about US Stocks close at fresh record highs on Business Standard. At the close of trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index advanced 27.70 points, or 0.09%, to 31,458.40. The S&P 500 index added 18.45 points, or 0.47%, to 3,934.83. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index added 69.70 points, or 0.5%, to
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There will be quite a bit of ice out there this morning and we will be seeing some more freezing rain today. Expect the high to stop out at a cold 37 degrees.
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Five regional school districts, all with high minority populations living closer to the poverty line, are most harmed by Pennsylvania s famously unfair education funding structure, according to a new analysis by a good schools advocacy group. Those districts are Pottstown and Norristown in Montgomery County, Reading and Antietam in Berks County, and Southeast Delco in Delaware County. The 24-page study, recently released by Public Citizens for Children and Youth, places much of the blame on an aspect of Pennsylvania s school funding architecture called hold harmless.
Read more about Donald Trump s lawyers decry impeachment case as political vengeance on Business Standard. Lawyers for Trump opened his impeachment defense Friday by strenuously denying he played any role in inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol
Ever the professional late-night political comedian, Amber Ruffin started to unpack the ongoing (second) impeachment trial of a particular, disgraced former president on Friday. However, even a pro has limits, and the ordinarily indefatigable host just couldn’t get through yet another story rehashing the sordid details of a traitorous white supremacist and his passel of Republican accomplices, enablers, and assorted spineless nothings, blurting in frustration, “I don’t wanna talk about this! Who cares!” As is often the case in TV and movies since 1946, Ruffin then made a desperate, no doubt soon-to-be-ironically-punished wish, calling out to the heavens (or the 30 Rock rafters), “Trump isn’t the president any more and we shouldn’t have to keep thinking about him . . . I wish he had never been born!”