
Paint just got a lot more expensive
CNN
Add paint to the growing list of things that are getting more expensive.
Sherwin-Williams (SHW) announced Tuesday that "demand remains strong" for its paint and other products, forcing the retailer to hike prices 7% beginning in August. The company blamed rising costs of raw materials for the price increases -- a pandemic trend as consumers have changed their purchasing behavior and supply chains have gotten messed up around the world.. Demand for residential paint jobs -- both fixer-uppers and new homes -- has remained strong, and the industrial side of its business has been recovering faster than expected.
Botched Epstein redactions trace back to Virgin Islands’ 2020 civil racketeering case against estate
A botched redaction in the Epstein files revealed that government attorneys once accused his lawyers of paying over $400,000 to “young female models and actresses” to cover up his criminal activities

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.










