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The District is struggling to attract new workers for the first time in 30 years after the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal workers, a new report shows. Yesim Sayin, executive director of the nonpartisan D.C. Policy Center, said the D.C. labor market hasn’t been this bleak since the city weathered the 1991-1992 recession and declared bankruptcy in 1996. The nonprofit think tank noted this month that the District shed more than 46,000 government and private contractor jobs last year. That’s 57% of a net loss of 79,800 jobs since January 2020, the last month before the COVID-19 public health…

Spencer Pratt is still in the wake of not moving forward in the Los Angeles race against Karen Bass and multiple other candidates. However, he and his wife, singer and fellow reality star Heidi Montag, are facing a lawsuit following an alleged dog attack at their home in 2025. 5Image Press Agency/MEGA TMZ obtained court documents in July 2026 that indicate Pratt and Montag are being sued by their former assistant, a man named Cole Gill. The ex-assistant claims to have been bitten by their Dutch Shepherd guard dog, Ego, while going to the Carpinteria, CA, home in November 2025…

Key Takeaways Adam Mosseri is the CEO of Instagram, an app with three billion users. In a recent interview, Mosseri revealed that he looks for three traits in new hires, regardless of discipline. Mosseri likened an openness to AI to the beginning days of learning a new language. AI is disrupting the workforce, but at Instagram, the traits that matter in new hires withstand the test of time.  Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said on a recent episode of Lenny’s Podcast that he looks for three core traits in new hires. No matter what their function in the company, he searches…

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, federal agents responsible for enforcing immigration laws have been involved in at least 29 shootings, according to an analysis by the Gun Violence Data Hub. At least eight of those incidents resulted in one fatality, although some sources put the number higher by including cases in which Border Patrol agents or other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were also involved.The cases have drawn attention because, in several of them, authorities claimed that the victims had used their vehicles as weapons to try to run over agents—a version of events…

GILT call themselves “nü emocore” — a blend of nü metal, metalcore, post-hardcore, and emo that’s as viscerally confessional as it is guttingly heavy. Throughout their latest album, I Saw Myself in the Black Screen, that sound emerges from all sides, with the band offering up the most ambitious, stylized version of themselves yet. However, these songs do a lot more than evoke the soundtrack of Hot Topic in the early aughts. Produced and mixed by nightlife mastermind Hansel Romero, I Saw Myself in the Black Screen channels intense rage, trauma, and grief while drawing from a wide spectrum of…

CNBC’s newly released “quality of life” rankings placed 10 Republican-led states at the bottom of its annual list of best places to live, drawing mockery from conservatives who contend the methodology penalizes red-state policy rather than reflecting where Americans are actually choosing to move. The financial news outlet’s 2026 America’s Top States for Business study ranked the worst 10 states, from last to best of the bunch, as Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Georgia, Utah, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma and Arkansas, according to a full accounting of the rankings published by Nashville’s WSMV. Tennessee finished with a quality-of-life score of just 64…

Two teens in Texas, Lucas Roper and an unnamed juvenile, have been arrested months after allegedly tampering with evidence in the drowning death of 18-year-old Daniel Erving. RELATED: Teen Clarifies Timing Of Pool Party Image Speculated As Part Of Nolan Xavier Wells’ Last Moments, Says Ben Crump Is Taking “Advantage” Of His Parents Two Texas Teens Arrested Months After Allegedly Tampering With Evidence In Drowning Of 18-Year-Old Daniel Erving According to ABC News, 19-year-old Lucas Roper and a juvenile were arrested. And charged with tampering with physical evidence on Monday, July 13. Per the outlet, the charge is a third-degree felony.…

France and Spain clash in Dallas tonight in a mouthwatering World Cup semi-final tie. Didier Deschamps’ side have blazed a trail through the competition, winning all six games and scoring 16 goals in the process with captain Kylian Mbappe leading the race for the Golden Boot with eight and three assists. Spain’s run to the last four has been built around a solid defence with just one goal conceded. At the other end, winger Lamine Yamal has yet to shine but the Barcelona star will still be expected to provide the biggest threat to Les Bleus. Where to watch France…

Five players in England’s squad will be meeting Lionel Messi again if they feature against Argentina at the World Cup 2026 on Wednesday. Only one has lost all of the games they have played against the most feared player in football, while three have been on the winning side in at least half of their encounters with him. One of the newer members of the Three Lions’ group has already beaten Messi, securing a huge upset shortly before the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner left Paris Saint-Germain for current club Inter Miami. From John Stones to Harry Kane, here’s the full…

A massive sinkhole opened up on a boulevard in an upscale neighborhood of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, on Monday, swallowing a pickup truck.  The incident, which occurred on Quintero Arce Boulevard just outside the Villa Toscana subdivision on the western outskirts of Hermosillo, began when a motorcyclist fell while trying to avoid a large pothole as he drove past the Los Lagos Country Club. Un pick up cayó en un socavón en el bulevar Quintero Arce al poniente de Hermosillo, una persona que viaja en motocicleta derrapó en la calle tras el incidente 🚗🕳️⚠️ 📸Wilbert Ayala pic.twitter.com/To2p2ZcLSs — El…