At least 50 major retailers have jacked up interest rates on store-branded credit cards to all-time highs — even as inflation continues to dog shoppers nationwide, according to an explosive new study. Big chains including Macy’s, Gap, TJ Maxx and Petco hiked APRs on their store-issued credit cards before the Federal Reserve began slashing rates in September, according to a CNBC report that was based on Bankrate.com data. The retailers are pushing rates to 30% and above — an all-time record that breaks an unspoken APR maximum of 29.99% for the first time in years. That’s despite the fact that…
Katie Maloney‘s low-key romance with Sleeping With Sirens guitarist Nick Martin has captivated Vanderpump Rules fans since she first opened up about their connection. During an October 2024 episode of her “Disrespectfully” podcast, Maloney surprised listeners by revealing her new relationship status. “I have a boyfriend,” Maloney told her cohost…
We recently made a list of Goldman Sachs’ Top Growth Investors: 34 Stocks With The Highest Investment For Growth. In this piece, we will look at where Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) ranks on the list. With the 2024 US Presidential Election having come to a close, Wall Street can now focus…
The Dow surged 426 points to a record close Friday, and all three major indexes posted weekly gains, as investors took comfort from data pointing to robust economic activity in the world’s biggest economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 44,296.51, up 1%, a day after soaring more than 450 points. The S&P…
[Source]Despite losing the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris remains the top choice among Democratic voters for the party’s 2028 presidential nomination, according to a new poll by Puck News/Echelon Insights.The survey, conducted from Nov. 14 to 18, found that 41% of likely Democratic voters would support Harris, far…
Balatro seemingly came out of nowhere and instantly became everyone’s most-played game on Steam this year, and it turns out creator LocalThunk started it as a quick project to do during some time off work.Balatro won the Critics’ Choice Breakthrough Award at the Golden Joystick Awards yesterday, which is given…
The No. 6 Notre Dame women’s basketball team (4-0) has breezed through the first 2 ½ weeks of the season, annihilating opponents by an average of 47.5 points. It’s hard to know what’s more impressive about the Fighting Irish. Is it their offensive dominance? Or perhaps their stifling defense that’s…
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Donald Trump‘s campaign team celebrated his hush money trial sentencing being indefinitely postponed by Justice Juan Merchan on Friday, calling it “a decisive win” in a “Witch Hunt” case.After winning the presidential election, Justice Merchan, who presided over the case, agreed to adjourn sentencing and set new deadlines on Trump’s…
Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek’s network of contributorsAl Roker knows how to make a heartwarming birthday post.On Sunday, November 17, Al, 70, posted an Instagram Reel filled with rare pictures of his daughter, Leila Roker, in honor of her 26th birthday. The journalist shares Leila and son Nicholas Roker,…
President-elect Donald Trump will name hedge fund mogul Scott Bessent as the next treasury secretary, four sources tell The Post, ending a rough-and-tumble race that saw fierce jockeying among power players across Wall Street. Bessent “got the thumbs up” late Thursday during a meeting with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort…
Approximately 167,277 pounds of ground beef products have been recalled across the United States due to potential contamination with E. coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced in a statement on Nov. 20.Officials have so far identified 15 people sickened in the outbreak, but…
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certifies the 2024 presidential election results. ©sos.ga.gov(The Center Square) – Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger officially certified the 2024 presidential election results on Friday morning.This year’s election was a notable shift from 2020, when the race wasn’t even called for President Joe Biden…
In 1952, Britain was nearly bankrupt. Its great imperial possession India had declared independence, and other parts of the empire were being slowly dismantled. Yet the country still had pretensions to great-power status. It was, after all, still the third-largest economy in the world. “We’ve got to have this thing…
WASHINGTON — The federal government spent up to $267 million of your money to study and counteract so-called “misinformation” since President Biden took office in January 2021 — as President-elect Donald Trump vows to bar official use of the term. The funds doled out to universities, nonprofits and private companies…
Saquon Barkley is rooting for his former Giants teammate Daniel Jones. Jones was granted his release from the Giants on Friday after he had been benched as starting quarterback earlier this week. Barkley, who signed with the Eagles this offseason and is having a phenomenal year amid the change of…
Three decades after JonBenét Ramsey’s death, her murder remains officially unsolved. But the Little Miss Colorado’s demise lingers as the archetypal crime mystery. Sleuths continue to hash out theories: in bustling and competing Reddit communities, on podcasts and network documentaries. The speculation broadly falls into two opposing camps: Was the murder…
Robinhood Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher, reportedly a top contender to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission under President-elect Donald Trump, said Friday he is not interested in returning to a government position. Gallagher was appointed to the agency by former president Barack Obama and served as an SEC commissioner…
Ritual Aztec whistles produced a brain-scrambling “scream,” according to a new study. The objects were used during human sacrifices and may have prepared victims for their supposed descent to Mictlan, the Aztec underworld.The Aztecs created the small 1.2 to 2-inch-long (3 to 5 centimeters) skull-shaped whistles out of clay, possibly…
As Democrats regroup after the 2024 election, some are finding cautious optimism in an unlikely place: state legislatures.While the party faced disappointing results such as losing the Michigan state House, it did not face the kind of devastating wreckage down-ballot that often accompanies other national elections.The state legislative results were…
The wife of former Rep. Matt Gaetz is seemingly fine with her husband’s attorney general withdrawal and recent decision not to rejoin Congress in January.Ginger Luckey Gaetz shared an X post on Friday morning following her husband’s first interview since withdrawing his attorney general nomination, in which he told Charlie…
President-elect Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to get men out of women’s sports and eliminate the federal Department of Education. He seems intent on keeping both promises. But how? In announcing Linda McMahon, Small Business Administration chief in his first term, his pick to lead the department Wednesday,…
Joni ErnstShe’s about to become the top watchdoge in the Senate.Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), 54, will take charge of the newly formed Senate DOGE Caucus and collaborate with tech guru Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to “cut pork” in the federal government.“Iowans elected me with a mandate to…
Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. St. John’s is 3-0 on the year with three 20-plus point wins. Of course, the Johnnies haven’t played anybody, overwhelming Fordham, Quinnipiac and Wagner.…
Giannis Antetokounmpo is beloved by Milwaukee Bucks fans, but when he’s off the court, only one woman matters: his wife, Mariah Riddlesprigger. The NBA star and the Rice University alum started dating in the mid-2010s after Antetokounmpo was drafted by the Bucks. The duo have since kept their relationship relatively…
For President-elect Donald Trump, there’s a clear story that runs through each of the seven battleground states that he swept on his way to recapturing the White House.He managed to drive up even further what were already sky-high margins with his white, blue-collar base while harnessing historically broad nonwhite voter…
What it is: The spiral galaxies IC 2163 (left) and NGC 2207 (right)Where it is: 80 million light-years away, in the constellation Canis MajorWhen it was shared: Oct. 31, 2024Why it’s so special: This eerie scene, a composite of images captured by both the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and…
After a strange, dark turn last week, when Bill Burr hosted the post-presidential election episode of “Saturday Night Live,” the show bounced back by flexing its pop culture muscles.By touching on politics only in the Trump meets Biden cold open and in a sketch about podcaster bros who get assigned…
The number of people living with diabetes worldwide has quadrupled in the past two decades, with 830 million people diagnosed as of 2022, as published this week in The Lancet. That’s more than four times the number of people who had the disease in 1990, according to a Thursday announcement from the…
We recently made a list of UBS’ Bottom Quant Stocks In AI, IT, Healthcare & Others: 29 Stocks In All Sectors. In this piece, we will look at where Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE:RJF) ranks on the list of UBS’ bottom quant stocks. With November 2024 having settled in and…
The dominant Manchester United dynasty of the 2000s can attribute their success to several factors. Most pertinently, they had world-class players, such as Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Rio Ferdinand, who were coached by Sir Alex Ferguson, arguably the greatest manager in English football history.There was also Old Trafford, the…
Once again, the bye week might as well be a goodbye for the Giants. A goodbye, as in “adios,” as in “see ya,” as in parting ways with a season that went nowhere, accomplished little and set the franchise back rather than move it forward to bigger and better things. …
Fans didn’t know it, but One Direction released their last album with all five members in November 2014. With the record, tilted Four — a possible foreshadowing of what was to come — Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik dropped a 12-song record (with four…
Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images Prediction markets made a splash during 2024 Presidential election. The presidential race is over but Millions of dollars are still being bet on political outcomes. Here’s what people are betting on, from 2028 Presidential nominees to Trump’s cabinet picks. Billions of dollars were bet on…
Scientists have developed a new type of machine learning model that can understand and design genetic instructions.The model, dubbed Evo, can predict the effects of genetic mutations and generate new DNA sequences — although those DNA sequences do not closely match the DNA of living organisms.With time and training, however,…
In the days following the presidential election, a familiar strain of denialism and conspiracy thinking began to emerge in the corners of some social media platforms. On the right, familiar conspiracy theories about voting popularized by President-elect Donald Trump continued to circulate. But similar ideas also took hold among some…
Mortgage rates are up across the board today. According to Zillow, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has increased by 10 basis points to 6.64% — the highest this rate has been since early June. Rates on home loans typically follow the 10-year Treasury yield, which has been rising since…
EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning documentary filmmaker Pinny Grylls, and award-winning filmmaker, video artist and actor Sam Crane have signed with Anonymous Content for representation. The duo teamed to direct their debut feature, Grand Theft Hamlet, which won the Documentary Grand Jury Award at SXSW this year. The movie documents their journey to…
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Teddi Mellencamp and Karli Postel, the wife of Mellencamp’s horse trainer, recently attended the same event. Both Mellencamp, 43, and Postel were separately spotted at the Las Vegas National Horse Show, which was held at the South Point Arena and Equestrian Center earlier…
Listen to Aleem read this articleStanding on a podium in a Florida convention centre on the night of the election, a row of American flags behind him and a jubilant crowd looking on, Donald Trump declared: “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason, and…
Like fine lines on your face or aching joints, gray hair is considered to be one of the many markers of old age. But for those of us not quite ready to embrace the grays, is it possible to reverse this process?While a small study from 2021 suggests that this…
Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate and ally of Donald Trump, said the president-elect would bring the country together while also defending Trump’s immigration plan for mass deportations.Speaking to “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl, Ramaswamy urged Democrats to give Trump a chance in office and called on them to resist…
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Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush-money case has been officially put off.The sentencing…
