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In the preceding five years, she amassed around 100 citations, she said, and has paid several hundred dollars that she hopes will be refunded as part of the pending lawsuit.Last year, Mrs. Soto’s husband began getting weekly kidney dialysis, and Mrs. Soto took a bit of time off in March to recuperate from a hysterectomy. While she and her husband could not work, a group of vendors pooled their earnings and gave the couple $3,000 to help them make ends meet.Although she’s back at work, Mrs. Soto said business was lacking.“After the pandemic, everything changed,” she said. “It’s not as easy as it was before. It’s the economy. Now it’s very slow. People are complaining about money, about the taxes they have to pay. They don’t spend as much as before.”She hasn’t made $900 in a week since last...

Summer vacation lasts 11 weeks for the Restrepos. And the Michigan family has nine of them covered, thanks to a Kids Club program offered by the local public schools.But summer camp is not free. The Restrepos are paying $225 per kid per week: $4,050 for both children for those nine weeks.“Honestly, I don’t know what we’d do without it,” William Restrepo said.The price of parenting tends to spike in summer, when tax-funded public education gives way to parent-funded daycare and sleepaway camps. Inflation pads the bill.“Every summer, you kind of get a reminder that, okay, childcare is really, really expensive,” said Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree.Protect your assets: Best high-yield savings accounts of 2023A new survey, released June 24 by the personal finance site Intuit ...

This juror said that, as a “woman of color,” she has friends with strong opinions about Trump but that she tries to avoid politics herself and is not very interested in the news. While most of the jurors in the box indicated they were aware Trump faced other criminal cases, this woman signaled she did not.She did say she likes Trump’s candid style.“President Trump speaks his mind,” she said. “I’d rather have that than someone in office that we don’t know what he’s doing behind the scenes.”This juror has lived in Harlem for her entire life and works in education. She gets her information from Google and TikTok, and she listens to “The Breakfast Club,” a radio show in New York City.The juror’s mother and godfather have worked in law enforcement. Both are retirees from the New York Police De...

First jurors selected to serve in Trump hush money trial  NBC News

Six Republican governors are condemning efforts by the United Auto Workers to organize car factories in their states, a flash point as the labor group tries to build on its success last year winning concessions from the Big Three automakers by making inroads in the historically union-averse South. "We have a responsibility to our constituents to speak up when we see special interests looking to come into our state and threaten our jobs and the values we live by," the governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas said Tuesday in a joint statement. The governors spoke out against the UAW a day before 4,300 Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., are set to start voting on whether to join the union. The factory is Volkswagen's North American electric-vehic...

Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images UPDATE: The first six jurors have been sworn in in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial, after extensive questioning that included queries about past social media posts. Twelve jurors and as many as six alternates have to be seated before testimony begins. Judge Juan Merchan also the jury that they could pans for opening statements on Monday. PREVIOUSLY: Donald Trump’s lawyers have been reviewing potential jurors’ social media posts, calling out those whose pledges to be impartial may conflict with their affinities on Facebook and other platforms. But Judge Juan Merchan scolded the former president’s legal team for Trump’s audible reaction as one potential juror was being questioned over her past Facebook...

A cyberattack earlier this year against a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary has proved costly for one of the nation's largest employers. The health insurance giant on Tuesday noted $872 million in "unfavorable cyberattack effects" in its report of first quarter operations earnings. Those unfavorable effects refer to the February 21 cyberattack on Change Healthcare, which shut down operations at hospitals and pharmacies for more than a week. The $872 million includes "the Change Healthcare business disruption impacts and exclude the cyberattack direct response costs," which likely excludes any amount UnitedHealth may have paid to hackers in ransom. UnitedHealth confirmed on the day of the breach that the cybercriminals behind the attack was a Russia-based ransomware gang known as ALPHV or Blac...