• Associated Press

    Reading the 'tea leaves': TV networks vamp for time during the wait for the Donald Trump verdict

    Jury deliberation meant tense, ultimately boring hours of waiting for lawyers, journalists and others at the Manhattan courtroom where former President Donald Trump's hush money trial is being held. Since the case began in mid-April, Fox News Channel’s daytime viewers are up 15% over last year at the same time, MSNBC is up 17% and CNN up 19%, according to the Nielsen company. “They could come out with a verdict between now and however long it takes them,” Newsmax reporter Christina Thompson said Thursday — the safest of hundreds of televised predictions since the jury began considering evidence.

  • Yahoo Finance

    Mortgage rates top 7% — again

    Mortgage rates climbed past 7% this week after declining for almost a month.

  • Local Journalism Initiative

    'I do not blame them': Springwater library staff unionize in response to council

    Employees at Springwater Township’s public library are joining a union, a move they say was precipitated by the treatment they received from the local council. According to a news release issued late Wednesday afternoon (May 29) by Adrian Graham, chair of the Springwater Public Library, library employees have voted to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in response to recent interactions with township council. Notification of the intent to join, and the outcome of the vote, held e