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The man who choked a homeless person to death in a New York City subway last year is set to go to trial in October, a New York judge determined Wednesday. Daniel Penny pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 1 death of Jordan Neely, who was reportedly had a mental illness. Penny put Neely, a subway performer, in a fatal chokehold after he had been reportedly shouting at passengers and behaving erratically. The case attracted attention in political circles, sparking racial justice protests. An online fundraiser raised more than $3 million for his...

The sale of previously owned homes fell to an annualized rate of 3.79 million in October, marking a 13-year low, according to data released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Tuesday. Existing home sales, which fell 4.1 percent from September and 14.6 percent from last year, reached its lowest point since August 2010, the data showed. “Prospective home buyers experienced another difficult month due to the persistent lack of housing inventory and the highest mortgage rates in a generation,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a press release.

October Update Trump 2020 vs Bidenomics 2023Crude Oil2020 $36.392023 $84.09Gas2020 $2.1502023 $3.798Utility Cost Per Household Per Month2020 $3792023 $513Health Insurance Individual Per Month2020 $4562023 $560Health Insurance Family Per Month2020 $1,1522023 $1,871Median Prescription Drug Costs Per Month2020 $1482023 $177New Car2020 $40,1072023 $48,451New Car Interest Rate2020 4.24%2023 9.00%New Car Payment 60 Months Per Month2020 $7432023 $1,006Full Coverage Auto Insurance Per Month2020 $1362023 $179Avg Home Cost2020 $329,0002023 $417,100Avg Home Interest Rate2020 2.94%2023 8.64 %Avg Home Payment 30 Year Per Month2020 $1,3762023 $3,258Home Owners Insurance Per Month2020 $1092023 $231Avg Rent Per Month2020 $1,4632023 $2,052Household Paper Products Per Month2020 $242023 $31Personal Care Per Month2020 $462023...

Ivy Tech Community College and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging recognizes October as LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) History Month. In 1994, Missouri high school teacher Rodney Wilson realized that students were not learning about the LGBTQ+ people or the LGBTQ+ rights movement. After creating Lesbian and Gay History Month, Wilson served as the founder of the first coordinating committee. In 1995, The General Assembly of the National Education Association passed a resolution to commemorate October as LGBTQ History Month. October was chosen to coincide with National Coming Out Day which is October 11. Learn more...

Arizona Republican Kari Lake, who was last year’s Republican gubernatorial nominee in the Grand Canyon State, will announce her candidacy for U.S. Senate during an October 10 rally in Phoenix. The Wall Street Journal’s Elia Collins first reported on Lake’s plans on Thursday, having spoken with Lake about her forthcoming announcement. “We need to get a senator in there who is going to fight back and put America first,” Lake told the outlet.

On March 18, the New York Times published a bombshell story . In the article, Peter Baker, the New York Times's chief White House correspondent, detailed how Ben Barnes, a Republican political operative, undertook a secret trip in fall 1980 with his political mentor, former Texas Gov. John Connally, to the Middle East. They met with the region’s leaders in an attempt to contact the Iranian government, which was holding over 50 Americans hostage. The message that Connally wanted to convey to Iran was simple — that Iran should delay releasing the hostages until after the presidential election. Keeping the...

Home prices fell for the fourth straight month as high interest rates and stubborn inflation dampen the housing market, according to data released Tuesday. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index, a gauge of home prices across the country, fell 0.3 percent in October from September after seasonal adjustments. It was the fourth consecutive monthly decline for the index after home prices peaked in June, said Craig J. Lazzara, managing director at S&P Dow Jones Indices, in a Tuesday release. “Despite considerable regional differences, all 20 cities in our October report reflect these trends,” Lazzara said. “Prices declined...

New home construction fell again last month as soaring interest rates continued to weaken demand in the housing market. Housing starts declined by 4.2 percent from September to 1.43 million units, according to Census Bureau data released on Thursday. The number of new building permits issued in October also fell from the previous month, dropping by 2.4 percent to 1.53 million. “Both starts and permits fell behind September levels and behind levels from one year ago,” Zillow senior economist Nicole Bachaud wrote in an analysis. “As the current affordability crisis burns on, builders are feeling demand for new homes slipping...

Consumer prices rose at slower rates in October, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department. The annual inflation rate fell to 7.7 percent in October from 8.2 percent in September, according to the consumer price index (CPI), a closely watched inflation gauge. Prices rose 0.4 percent last month alone.

The U.S. added 261,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.7 percent, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Economists expected the U.S. to add roughly 190,000 jobs last month and keep the unemployment rate steady at 3.5 percent, according to consensus estimates. While the overall jobs gain was better than anticipated, the labor market showed other signs of slowing under the weight of high prices, stubborn inflation, rising interest rates and a weakening global economy. The jobless rate rose in October as 306,000 Americans joined the ranks of the unemployed while labor force...

The tactic described as the October Surprise holds the juiciest fruits of opposition research until late in the election cycle. The key is to save the reveal until it’s too late to elicit an effective response. With the modern plethora of media outlets ready, willing, and able to leak campaign secrets or propaganda, the problem has been to keep the scoop under wraps long enough to limit the target’s response. With the pitiful slate of Democrat candidates and the party’s failed policies wreaking havoc on our nation and the economy, it seems the Dems have been emptying their bag of...

The House January 6 Committee is planning to hold at least one more hearing and release an early report into its “findings” before the 2020 midterm elections, in what is probably the least surprising “October surprise” in American political history. Axios.com reported, with the credulous headline “Jan. 6 committee’s October surprise,” the following “news”: The committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol plans to hold at least one more hearing late this month and release early findings and recommendations before the election.

As has become the norm for 2021, October gun sales in 2021 were the second-highest on record. Less commonly, the total NICS background checks were also the second-highest October on record. There is a significant difference between the NICS checks and gun sales. Gun sales have been running at about half of NICS checks for a while, but in October, they were 54% NICS checks. What seems to have happened is permit and permit rechecks have fallen off a bit. In October, the number of gun sales, calculated as handguns + long guns + other guns + 2.5 x multiple...

Pete's Note: This is an article from my late spiritual mentor, Jack Kinsella (The Omega Letter). It is, in my opinion, one of the most definitive articles regarding Hallowe'en from the Christian perspective. Understandably, people have differing opinions on this holiday and that is ok. I will also tell you that every holiday, will ultimately offend someone. So unless we resign ourselves to live like Jehovah's Witness and celebrate no holidays (or birthdays) then we had better find a workable worldview regarding these things. But if you don't have kids (or they're grown) and you just think this topic is...

The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that the justices will return to the courtroom for oral arguments in October. Attendance will be limited to essential personnel, lawyers for the parties and a select group of reporters, according to a press release. The public will not be allowed to attend the arguments. But the announcement marks yet another milestone as the United States slowly returns to its pre-pandemic normal. [snip] Attendance will be limited to essential personnel, lawyers for the parties and a select group of reporters, according to a press release. The public will not be allowed to attend the arguments....

ST. LOUIS — October became the deadliest month for Missouri in the coronavirus pandemic as fatalities statewide rose to 618 for the month, surpassing September, with the toll still likely to climb. At the same time Wednesday, Missouri reported another grim record: The state’s seven-day total hospitalization average rose to 1,604, marking the first time that number has surpassed 1,600. Missouri hospitalization data lags three days, and not every hospital reports every day.

We now know -- thanks to October -- who will win on November 3. The reason we know is found in early voting data. October voting is no longer the exclusive domain of the Democratic Party. Both parties vote early and in ever-increasing numbers. Which makes the October vote an early “action report” on the election outcome that’s more reality based than the polls or the mainstream media. Who you vote for is a secret. When, where, and how many voters cast their ballots is not. It’s data. In this case, data in its most meaningful form: the number of...

"There are 11 meteor showers peaking in October every year. Here the brief description of these awesome space events that will light up the autumn sky of October. Keep your eyes to the sky and enjoy!"

A blue moon, which will occur Oct. 31, will be the second full moon in the same calendar month — which is the reason behind its name. “Is it going to be a blue moon up in the sky? Sorry, everybody, no,” Gonyea said. According to Gonya, there is a seasonal blue moon and there is a monthly blue moon. “In olden times, they referred to the blue moon as the third full moon out of four in a season, so this autumn, September, October, and November is the autumn season,” he said. “September, we had a full moon. October,...

The bonus this particular October will be Mars at its most dazzling in 17 years. Then you have Jupiter and Saturn getting a little closer each night, Uranus at opposition in Aries, two full moons including a blue moon on Halloween, an asteroid named Flora at opposition, the usual close conjunctions of the moon with some of the planets, a very close conjunction of Venus and Regulus, and favorable conditions for not one, but two meteor showers – the Draconids on the Oct. 8 and the Orionids on Oct. 21. Mars will be the magnificent star on our celestial stage...