Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is calling for federal regulators to stop Capital One from buying its competitor Discover, calling the deal “dangerous.” The all-stock deal was announced on Monday. The massive buyout would cost $35 billion and result in the largest U.S. credit card company by loan volume. While shares of Discover surged in response […]
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign released a memo Tuesday declaring Saturday’s Republican primary in South Carolina as “the end” of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign. Trump senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles authored the new memo, titled “The End Is Near For Nikki Haley,” in which they state that South Carolina’s nominating […]
Georgia families who receive assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see their final direct payments for the month of February over the next three days. Food stamps are sent out from Feb. 5-23 in the Peach State. SNAP payments will be issued to beneficiaries’ accounts on days depending on the last two digits of their client ID […]
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) deleted a social media post that accused a man suspected of being one of the shooters at the Kansas City Chiefs parade of being an “illegal alien.” In a previous post on X, the Tennessee congressman shared a photo of a man in a red jumpsuit and wrote that “one of […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s adviser Peter Navarro was threatened on Tuesday with contempt for defying a judge’s order to return stacks of presidential records to the National Archives. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered Navarro to return dozens of records he had argued were his personal documents and did not need to be returned to […]
With abortion rights on up to nearly a quarter of state ballots this November, many groups are worried that funding is too tight to campaign successfully in all of them. In ultra-conservative states such as Arkansas and South Dakota, even large-scale national donors are slim. Because of how conservative the states are, donors said they […]
The Democratic National Committee and the Arizona Democratic Party are attempting to intervene in a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee over Arizona‘s election procedure manual. The manual, created by Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, is designed to tell officials in the state how to conduct and certify elections. It was challenged by the […]
NASA is calling all “Martians” on Earth to apply to be part of a yearlong simulation set to help educate the agency on humanity’s exploration of the Red Planet. The simulation will be the second of three planned Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog ground-based missions, according to a release from NASA. “Each CHAPEA mission […]
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee hammered former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski for his testimony to lawmakers last week and accused the key witness of making “baseless accusations and insults,” according to a letter sent to Bobulinski’s lawyer. Ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sent the letter on Tuesday, criticizing Bobulinski for […]
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley teared up in an emotional moment as she spoke about her husband’s yearlong deployment during a State of the Race speech Tuesday afternoon. Haley’s rare sign of emotion comes after former President Donald Trump has needled the former South Carolina governor on her marriage on multiple occasions. Haley was describing her […]
