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Wall Street's 2025 bonuses reached unprecedented levels in a rollicking year for markets

The average Wall Street bonus rose to a record $246,900 in 2025 amid a surge in profits, New York state's comptroller reported Thursday.

The average bonus rose 6% - or almost $15,000 higher - from the previous year. Wall Street’s bonus pool reached a record $49.2 billion in 2025, up 9%, according to Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's annual estimate of bonuses paid to securities industry employees who work in New York City.

DiNapoli, a Democrat, said the increases reflect a rise of more than 30% in Wall Street’s profits last year, to $65.1 billion.

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Most Republicans love Trump. A prolonged war in Iran could test that, an AP-NORC poll shows

It's costing more and more to gas up the hot rods that Donnie Beson has spent a lifetime tinkering with. He's not questioning his support for President Donald Trump, but he feels as though the war in Iran has distracted the Republican president from the issues that got him elected.

“Come on, Trump. Worry about us," said Beson, 68, of Woodland Park, Colorado. "We’re in a billion-dollar-a-day war. It’s like, ‘Man, you forgot about the other stuff, and you got to take care of that first.’”

Trump still has deep support among Republicans, but a new poll from The... Read More

EU lawmakers vote to make it easier to set up migrant detention centers outside the bloc

BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers voted Thursday to ease the setting up of new migrant detention centers outside the European Union, known as “return hubs.”

Members of the European Parliament voted 389-206 in favor, with 32 abstentions. Right-wing parties made an alliance with far-right groups that they had previously shunned to pass the measure, while parties of the left and center voted against.

Any EU nation can now negotiate on its own or in small coalitions to deport migrants not to their home countries but to facilities yet to be built outside the 27-nation... Read More

Missed paychecks and airport delays: Pressure mounts on Congress to end the funding shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Congress to end the funding shutdown that's resulted in travel disruptions, missed paychecks and even warnings of airport closures, but lawmakers have yet to resolve the underlying issue of reining in President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement operations.

Senators are expected to vote Thursday on a Republican proposal that would fund the Transportation Security Administration and much of the Department of Homeland Security, except the enforcement and removal operations conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But it's... Read More

Indian Health Service is digging out of decades-old construction backlog for medical buildings

SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — An empty lot between a fire station and a soccer field just outside Albuquerque soon will be the home of a federal medical center first promised to Native American patients more than 30 years ago.

Earlier this month, Santa Ana Pueblo Gov. Myron Armijo took officials from the U.S. Indian Health Service and the Department of Health and Human Services on a tour of the location where patients are to receive everything from dialysis and diabetes care to optometry services.

“This will definitely change the game for health care in our area,”... Read More

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Wall Street's 2025 bonuses reached unprecedented levels in a rollicking year for markets

Most Republicans love Trump. A prolonged war in Iran could test that, an AP-NORC poll shows

EU lawmakers vote to make it easier to set up migrant detention centers outside the bloc

Missed paychecks and airport delays: Pressure mounts on Congress to end the funding shutdown

Indian Health Service is digging out of decades-old construction backlog for medical buildings

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