Two smaller airlines, Spirit Airlines and JetBlue Airways, want to merge in order to better compete with the four large airlines. If Spirit and JetBlue merged, they would be the fifth-biggest airline, behind American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines. The federal government is blocking the merger, and there are rumblings that […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) talked up President Joe Biden and praised the Democratic Party for “crushing” recent elections ahead of South Carolina’s first-in-the-nation Democratic primary. Speaking in The Palmetto State during a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, Newsom uplifted Democrats with the 2024 election season in full swing, “We just started. Tag, we’re it […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Friday it is alarming that fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift spread across social media earlier this week and that Congress should pass a bill criminalizing the sharing of similar images. Explicit images of the pop star, believed to be generated by artificial intelligence, spread like […]
The White House declined to comment Friday on reports that President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he couldn’t back a year of war, instead suggesting that Biden isn’t concerned about the ramifications Israel’s offensive in Gaza will have on the 2024 election. Axios reported Friday that Biden said during last Friday’s […]
Former President Donald Trump exited a Manhattan courtroom in a huff on Friday as an attorney for writer E. Jean Carroll made her closing arguments in a defamation case against him. Trump, according to multiple reports, stormed out of the room on the final day of the trial just as Carroll’s attorney said Trump believes […]
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) announced he would not run for another term in the House, making him the latest member of Congress from Maryland to retire after the 2024 cycle. “This was an incredibly difficult decision for me because, now more than ever, Congress needs thoughtful, end-game representatives like me — members who care more […]
Unanswered pleas for help amid a historic influx of illegal immigrants at the southern border have sparked a federal-state battle three years in the making, a feud that has been teased as potentially laying the ground for a civil war. Two thousand miles apart, Biden administration leaders in Washington, D.C., and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s […]
Monthly payments of $528 started going out to small businesses and entrepreneurs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this month, and the next payment will be sent in 20 days. The Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor, a two-year guaranteed income pilot program led by the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions team, selected 100 participants randomly from […]
A group of Colorado voters called on the Supreme Court on Friday to block former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, telling the justices in their brief that he is ineligible to run for the presidency for bringing a mob to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Supreme Court will hold oral […]
The United States Postal Service will commemorate the Lunar New Year with a dragon stamp in homage to the Chinese Zodiac for this year. Artist Camille Chew created the design by first cutting and folding a paper dragon mask and then digitally rendering the mask. Chew has designed the USPS stamp for the holiday since […]
