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Online Black Friday shopping shattered records in 2024, with spending up 10.2% this year compared to 2023, according to data provided by Adobe Analytics. Consumers spent a record $10.8 billion online on Friday, which is nearly double what was spent just seven years ago on Black Friday. How does Black Friday shopping compare to a typical day? Spending on toys was over seven times higher than a typical day, jewelry had over six times the spending, and electronics had more than four times the spending. RELATED STORY | Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday: When are the better deals? Adobe Analytics said popular toys helped drive a massive increase in toy spending. Top toys sold on Friday include Harry Potter LEGO sets, Wicked toys, card and board games, Disney Princess toys and dolls, and Cookeez Makery oven playset, Adobe Analytics said. “Crossing the $10 billion mark is a big e-commerce milestone for Black Friday, for a day that in the past was more anchored towards in-store shopping”, said Vivek Pandya, lead analyst, Adobe Digital Insights .“And with consumers getting more comfortable with everything from mobile shopping to chat bots, we have tailwinds that can prop up online growth for Black Friday moving forward.” Adobe Analytics expects Thanksgiving weekend spending to remain robust. An estimated $5.2 billion is expected to be spent by Americans on Saturday, and $5.6 billion is expected to be spent at online retailers on Sunday. Cyber Monday is expected to generate $13.2 billion, a 6.1% increase from last year. RELATED STORY | Best apps to manage your money as the holiday shopping season ramps up The National Retail Federation expects that 200 million Americans will shop this weekend, nearly 4 million more than a year ago. Online shopping is projected to generate more revenue than in-person. “The five-day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday represents some of the busiest shopping days of the year and reflects the continued resilience of consumers and strength of the economy,” said NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay. “Shoppers exceeded our expectations with a robust turnout. Retailers large and small were prepared to deliver safe, convenient and affordable shopping experiences with the products and services consumers needed, and at great prices.”
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Where are graves and bodies, Dar questions PTI claimsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuts in funding for the Internal Revenue Service, long eyed by Republicans in Congress, would increase the federal deficit by $140 billion over a decade, slow service and reduce complex audits of big companies, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Tuesday. Adeyemo told reporters that the IRS faced a $20 billion drop in funding over the next decade unless Congress acted as part of its next government funding measure to address a budgetary anomaly included in the September continuing resolution. The IRS would have to slow its modernization drive and reduce enforcement while call wait times would surge unless Congress fixed the budget issue, he said. And the challenges would get worse if Republicans made good on their vow to target IRS funding. Cutting IRS funding would mean the end or a big slowdown in enforcement initiatives targeting wealthy individuals, large corporations or complex partnerships, he said, citing two initiatives that have recovered $1.3 billion so far. Less funds for technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning would limit big-ticket enforcement efforts, while audits of middle-class taxpayers would likely increase because they were easier to carry out with less technology. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump previously backed efforts to replace 1960s-era IRS equipment, and the current strategic plan largely mirrored one drafted by his previous IRS commissioner, Adeyemo said. But Trump vowed during this campaign to rescind all unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act, including billions of dollars earmarked for increased enforcement by the IRS. He said IRS enforcement funds would run out sometime in fiscal year 2025, and funds for improving services would run out the following year, unless the funding was restored. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Mark Porter)The migrant from Honduras who was charged with raping a woman on a woodsy trail in Herndon, Virginia, is a case study in permissive left-wing sanctuary city and state laws that have endangered so many Americans. “Let me start by saying that I am incredibly saddened and outraged that a crime like this could happen here in the town of Herndon,” Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard said at a press conference last weekend after the arrest of the migrant. Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31, was arrested and charged for the November 18 attack and rape of a woman he allegedly encountered on the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail in Herndon. The attack was termed a “stranger rape” because the attacker and the victim did not know each other. “We haven’t had a stranger rape in over 12 years that I’ve been here as chief,” Chief DeBoard said. “There should be full prosecution, so this never happens again.” The attack, though, should not come as a surprise. Authorities discovered that Romero has been linked to several sexual battery attacks on juveniles going back to 2017, they said after his arrest. There have been other charges as well. A flabbergasted DeBoard was shocked to find that the suspect had already been charged with two felonies, and yet he was still freely wandering around the United States. “He had two felonies from cases we had where we were called, dispatched to investigate a sexual battery, basically where he had grabbed a female,” Chief DeBoard said, “and when we went to investigate the case, we encountered the individual then and he assaulted two of my police officers. One he actually grabbed around the throat, tried to choke him. So he was charged with two assaults on a police officer, felonies.” DeBoard was asked if Navarette Romero was convicted for those felony assaults. “No, because a couple months later, that case was reduced to simple assault, misdemeanor. We weren’t asked to provide input on that,” she replied. “You know, my officers were victims in that case. We would hope that victims would be asked about their input on this, and we certainly wouldn’t have agreed to have that reduced to a misdemeanor.” The chief was also skeptical about deporting Navarette Romero after this latest arrest. “The problem with deporting him right now would be there is a strong chance that he could end up back in this country again,” she said. “The danger is, if he’s not held accountable for his crimes here, and he’s simply deported, we would have no way to keep him from coming back into the country.” How did all this happen? Because of the “sanctuary” policies of the law enforcement agencies he met previously. This latest incident of an illegal alien causing serious injury to an American caused Andrew R. Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy for the Center for Immigration Studies, to explain: Why are serious alien criminals who beg to be deported released into the community to reoffend? Because local – and federal – officials interpose themselves between those criminals and ICE in a misguided and senseless attempt to ‘protect’ the very victims who end up paying the price. The price for Joe Biden’s border crisis has been high, indeed. It seems as if not a month goes by when there isn’t a rape or murder perpetrated by a migrant who entered this country illegally. Victims abound across the nation. Young Jocelyn Nungaray, the 12-year-old girl from Houston, paid with her life . The same end befell 22-year-old Laken Riley in Georgia. Patty Morin of Baltimore also paid the ultimate price. And these are just some of the most famous cases. There are many others that have not become national news. There is also a long and growing list of other crimes occurring at the hands of Biden’s border crossers, including sexual assault , drug trafficking , robbery , child rape , and human trafficking , not to mention the criminal activities of dangerous gangs, including Tren de Aragua . All these cases add up into the tens of thousands and many of the perpetrators are repeat offenders who were in the U.S. justice system previously, but then simply let go right back into our population with no coordination or cooperation with ICE. Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: facebook.com/Warner.Todd.Huston , or Truth Social @WarnerToddHustonRivian gains conditional $6.6B loan commitment for Georgia factory
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