The conversation primarily revolves around personal experiences with summer heat and HVAC issues. Jason discusses a two-week wait for a refrigerant part, leading to a nine-hour delay in cooling their apartment from 84 to 75 degrees. Matt Gagnon shares his own struggles with no central air and the inefficacy of window units in his open-concept house. Both discuss the challenges of staying cool, including using fans and dining out for air conditioning. The discussion also touches on the New York City mayoral primary, highlighting the unexpected victory of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, emphasizing the political shift and implications for the city.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
