WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. fell this week for the first time in a month, but borrowing costs for homebuyers remain elevated.
in the federal government and has sought to end government support for DEI programs elsewhere. Some of the new administration’s anti-DEI initiatives have beenJackson’s opinion makes no mention of DEI. Instead, she focused on Ames’ contention that she was passed over for a promotion and then demoted because she is heterosexual. Both the job she sought and the one she had held were given to LGBTQ people.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars sex discrimination in the workplace. A trial court and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Ames.The 6th circuit is among the courts that had required an additional requirement for people like Ames, showing “background circumstances” that might include that LGBTQ people made the decisions affecting Ames or statistical evidence of a pattern of discrimination against members of the majority group.The appeals court noted that Ames didn’t provide any such circumstances.
But Jackson wrote that “this additional ‘background circumstances’ requirement is not consistent with Title VII’s text or our case law construing the statute.”WASHINGTON (AP) — La ruptura entre el presidente de los Estados Unidos y el hombre más rico del mundo se está desarrollando de manera muy similar a como comenzó su relación: rápidamente, intensamente y de manera muy pública.
Mientras el presidente Donald Trump estaba sentado en la Oficina Oval el jueves con el líder de Alemania a su lado, lamentó su deteriorada relación con Elon Musk, su asesor convertido en antagonista en las redes sociales. Trump expresó que está “muy decepcionado” con Musk después de que el antiguo partidario y asesor arremetiera contra el proyecto de ley emblemático del presidente de recortes de impuestos y planes de gasto .
Trump sugirió que Musk, quien dejó el gobierno el mes pasado después de liderar el tumultuoso Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental, extraña estar en la Casa Blanca y tiene el “síndrome de furia contra Trump”.Even before tariff-related volatility,
clouded the major technology theme that powered the market in 2023 and 2024, as AI stocksBut there have been equity gains to be had in 2025. When I look at
, I notice a few surprising stars: European stocks, Latin America, and real estate investment trusts.The common thread that connects the three? All had been underperformers in prior years.