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Not ready to let go of family house

Dear Annie: My husband and I are both in our 70s, and he’s been pushing for us to sell the house and move into something smaller for over a year now. He’s not wrong; it’s more house than we need. But we raised our three kids in this house. Every room has something in it — the kitchen table my dad built, the height marks on the door frame, the driveway where our children learned to ride their bikes. I know we probably can’t stay here forever. But I feel like he’s asking me to hand over all these memories without a second thought. Am I being stubborn, or is he being cold ...

Sept. 11 seems like yesterday

Smoke still rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the smell of nearly 2,000 deaths lingered miles uptown. A reporter asked New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani whether he worried that the city’s Muslim neighborhoods would be attacked in revenge for that Islamist-inspired atrocity. Giuliani responded that he would make sure that didn’t happen, that he was sending more police to those areas to protect their residents. Those were Giuliani’s better years, when he moved to calm his hurting city. They are a study in contrast with how Mayor Zohran Mamdani has allowed, even ...

How to waste $9T not saving earth

The world has spent $9 trillion to combat climate change since 2020. That is a World War II-type number. Except we won WWII. But now even the left admits that this torrent of money has accomplished ... nothing. According to ESG Today, citing a 2026 United Nations report, the “multinational goal to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 C, identified as the threshold to avoid the most significant impacts of climate change, is now out of reach.” The “best-case scenario (is) now at 1.8 C.” In other words, we’re doomed. Well, not necessarily: According to the UN, Climate ...

Settlement a good start to protect kids

Limiting kids’ access to its addictive social media products Facebook and Instagram, Meta cut a worthwhile deal in a lawsuit with 47 states, D.C. and several U.S. territories. No more will children be glued to screens thanks to some needed reforms, and Meta will write out at least $12 billion in checks to be doled out over 10 years, including up to some $1.1 billion for New York. As a financial penalty, it may seem pretty big, but it is a pittance compared to 10 years’ worth of Meta’s revenue. Even the $200 billion California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey were expected to ...

Trump: Oil prices may drop after midterms

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that oil prices that have surged because of the Iran war likely won’t come down until after U.S. midterm elections. Oil prices on Wednesday jumped more than 3%, pushing international Brent crude past the $100 threshold for the first time since July as salvos between the U.S. and Iran escalated. “Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward,” Trump said. “I think it’s going to take a little bit longer than the midterm.” The comments were a striking acknowledgment from Trump about the conflict ...

Cleaning crew was wrapping up shift

Five members of a crew killed when an Amazon cargo jet smashed into their van were wrapping up their eight-hour shift cleaning planes at the Miami airport when they were struck, lawyers for one of the victims said on Wednesday. The deadly crash has drawn attention to a workforce that largely operates out of sight of most travelers, tidying airplane cabins for often low pay while sometimes working in hot and dangerous conditions. But the job is also critical to keeping the airline industry moving 24 hours a day. “This is certainly very tragic. You would not think riding in a van to ...