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…
Donald Trump clinched victory in the 2024 presidential election last week, sweeping all seven swing states to secure 312 Electoral College votes in a dramatic and historic week for America.The president-elect eliminated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris’s chances of making history as the first female president, and will now return…
This time Jalen Brunson hit the shot. Two nights after his potential game-winner bounced in and out, Brunson’s trey with six seconds remaining beat the Nets on Friday night, 124-122, and avoided an epic collapse at MSG. On the following possession, Dennis Schroder was rejected by Mikal Bridges at the…
Morena Baccarin faces a world that’s been taken over by monsters in the new thriller Elevation — and she knows exactly what she would need in order to survive a real-life apocalypse. “My family,” Baccarin, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly, referring to husband Ben McKenzie and their children. (She shares…
Things might look gloomy at CNN with layoffs, salary cuts and a new digital programming model that may or may not work. But On The Money has learned that private equity firms have been crunching the numbers on a possible acquisition of the ratings-challenged network. Don’t exactly hold your breath…
It took months for Democrats to settle on their primary presidential calendar, an extended battle that ended up booting Iowa and New Hampshire from the mix and vaulting South Carolina to the top of the pack.Now that all could be scrapped.With President Joe Biden soon leaving the White House after…
In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, many Americans, especially celebrities, have pledged to give up their citizenship and move elsewhere. For Americans exploring dual citizenship options or seeking a second passport, many countries offer pathways to citizenship based on ancestry. These countries often allow citizens of foreign nations to…
(Bloomberg) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and the Democratic National Committee spent close to $1.5 billion in their unsuccessful presidential bid, but they didn’t go into debt doing so, according to the campaign’s chief financial officer.Most Read from BloombergConservative media outlets have reported that Harris’ unsuccessful campaign spent lavishly…
US food manufacturers “deliver safe, affordable and convenient products”, one of the country’s principal trade bodies has said, after President-elect Trump named industry critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. Trump yesterday (14 November) appointed Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK Jr., as Secretary of Health and Human…
A fake script for Friday night’s bout between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul went viral on social media, sending boxing fans into a frenzy. The phony letter, posted by an X user with just over 200 followers, made the rounds in the hours before the slated 11 p.m. fight in…
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It’s Miss Universe Season! Menahem Kahana / AFP via Getty ImagesThe “national costume” part of the Miss Universe pageant has, and will always be, my favorite part of the Miss Universe pageant. Afp / AFP via Getty ImagesThe United States has had quite the history of some interesting costumes over…
President-elect Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks and raising eyebrows on both sides of the aisle with choices looking very different compared to his first White House administration.Trump most recently tapped environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late Democratic U.S. President John F. Kennedy for the…
Donald Trump famously hates the so-called “fake news” media (don’t get him started on CNN). But he could be really good for media stocks. That’s because Lina Khan, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, is likely on her way out as soon as Trump takes office or shortly thereafter. Whoever replaces…
AI, yi, yi. A Google-made artificial intelligence program verbally abused a student seeking help with their homework, ultimately telling her to “Please die.” The shocking response from Google’s Gemini chatbot large language model (LLM) terrified 29-year-old Sumedha Reddy of Michigan — as it called her a “stain on the universe.”…
Since winning the 2024 election last week, Donald Trump has nominated two types of people for his Cabinet: candidates who are very likely to be confirmed by the incoming Republican-controlled Senate — and candidates who might have a much harder time of it.The first category includes relatively mainstream Republicans such…
LIMA — Retiring President Biden played comedian Friday and told Peruvian President Dina Boluarte that he may have to go to space to save the astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station. The 81-year-old leader, meeting with Boluarte on the sidelines of the APEC economic conference of Pacific rim countries,…
SEATTLE — The question of when Mat Barzal will return from an upper-body injury is still open for now. The question of who he will play with upon doing so might be, as well. That is because the reconstituted top line with Bo Horvat centering Anders Lee and Jean-Gabriel Pageau…
Dave Portnoy has confirmed his exit from the “BFFs” podcast in the midst of drama between himself and Zach Bryan, the ex-boyfriend of cohost Brianna “Chickenfry” Lapaglia. “The subjects don’t interest me at all,” Portnoy, 47, said on “The Unnamed Show” podcast on Thursday, November 14. “They show me…
Prior to the apology, Zegler said Trump, 78, winning showed there’s a “deep sickness in the country.””Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in. Leaning us towards…
General Motors is laying off about 1,000 workers worldwide, shedding costs as it tries to compete in a crowded global automobile market. The workers, mostly white-collar, were notified about the decisions early Friday. The company confirmed the layoffs in a statement but gave few details. “We need to optimize for…
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Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush-money case has been officially put off.The sentencing…
