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Companies with capital-light business models that deal in hard assets are most likely to benefit from higher inflation, says Horizon Kinetics’ James Davolos.

British money transfer company Wise is set to go public on the London Stock Exchange through a direct listing.

In a contentious press conference Friday, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson slammed the Biden administration for its decision to cancel the contract for Hodgson to hold immigrant detainees at the jail in Dartmouth. The decision came as federal authorities said the facility housed civil detainees in “unacceptable” conditions. “How dare they demonize my staff, how dare they?!” Hodgson said Friday….

The Biden Administration directed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday to discontinue use of a detention center in Bristol County, Massachusetts, saying it is no longer needed. “Allow me to state one foundational principle: We will not tolerate the mistreatment of individuals in civil immigration detention or substandard conditions of detention,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said...

For local restaurants, employers’ decisions on how to return to work could have an outsized impact on their business.

President Joe Biden has nominated the sheriff of one of the nation’s most populous counties to lead the agency that deports people in the country illegally.

Jesse Powell, CEO of bitcoin exchange Kraken, said there “could be some crackdown” on cryptocurrencies.

The pending Coinbase direct listing is exciting a broad base of the investment community outside the usual cryptocurrency crowd.

Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, another step in the Biden’s administration rush to set up temporary space

The Biden administration is facing growing questions about why it wasn’t more prepared for an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border

The Biden administration is giving new marching orders to U.S. immigration authorities

Mainers are scraping their way out of a messy day of snow, sleet and freezing rain. State offices were closed on Tuesday and some COVID-19 vaccine clinics canceled or delayed appointments. Communities in southern Maine got anywhere from an eighth of an inch to a third of an inch of ice from freezing rain recorded in Portland. Officials in Sanford…

Maine dealt with rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow Tuesday.

Overnight Monday Night: A wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain changing to rain late south & east. Temperatures around freezing.
Tuesday: AM interior freezing rain, northern snow, otherwise rain showers. Highs near 40 south, 30 north.

In a chilling 911 call this week, a migrant told Texas dispatchers that he and about 80 others were trapped in a tank truck. They have not been found.

Enjoy the quiet weather this weekend, because big changes are on the way next week as multiple systems launch a wintry mix across New England. Friday night, the clouds increase and the breeze relaxes. Lows will be similar to last night, below zero far north and in the single digits and teens everywhere else. A little less wind means the…

Tonight will be even colder as temperatures fall to the single digits and teens, below zero for many north and in higher terrain. A northwest breeze increases around sundown and will push in more cold air and keep wind chills below zero in many places through Friday morning. Wind chill advisories are up across the North Country with wind chills…

This Evening: Mostly clear, upper 20s. Overnight Thursday Night: Clearing, cold. Lows around 10, wind chill below zero. Friday: Sun & clouds, chilly. Highs in the 20s, wind chill teens.

A cranberry red Jeep broke through ice on a pond in Sterling, Massachusetts, Thursday, leaving its front end partially submerged. Everyone inside of the SUV was safe, the local fire department said on Facebook. They didn’t say why the Jeep was out on the ice in the first place.  Firefighters and police arrived at the scene, near Squareshire Road,...

The nor’easter that dropped feet of snow on some parts of New England slowly pulls away from us as we head into Thursday.  This evening, a few snow showers or flurries linger across the northeast, along with cloud cover.  Overnight in the North Country, some areas will see scattered coatings up to 3 inches of snowfall from those showers. Lows...