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…
Election forecaster and historian Allan Lichtman has made his final prediction on whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will win the 2024 presidential election. What Happened: Several months ago, Lichtman shared his preliminary findings based on a 13-key system he created, but said the forecast would be updated after the…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner sued Miss America Competitions and a related entity over nearly $1 million in unpaid legal fees last Thursday, court records show. The Fifteenth Judicial Circuit for Palm Beach County, Florida, is the latest venue in a years-long fee dispute that has caused BCLP to chase the…
On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about spacecraft propulsion. Then, on Aug. 29, the agency confirmed this sail successfully unfurled itself in outer space. Yet, we still didn’t…
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk has developed a pill that can cause weight loss of up to 13% in three months, according to new trial results. Amycretin is unusual because it mimics the appetite-suppressing hormone GLP-1, like Ozempic but also amylin, a hormone that makes people feel full and helps control…
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Just one bag of Cheetos can be “world changing.”A parkgoer at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico recently dropped a bag full of Cheetos at the caverns.That one bag of the dusty orange snack made a “huge impact” on the cave’s ecosystem, the park.A parkgoer at Carlsbad Caverns National…
Her body was found two weeks after her wedding day; now, her neighbor has been accused of second-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and second-degree abuse of a corpse. The man accused of killing Portland, Oregon nurse Melissa Jubane has been hit with additional charges, days after his arrest and the discovery…
LANGHORNE, Pa. — Keystone State polling shows a Senate race that was once approaching blowout territory is now too close to call, with blue-collar voters seeking change downballot. And the ramifications may be major for Donald Trump and the GOP. A CNN/SSRS survey of 785 registered voters reveals Republican Dave McCormick…
A 27-year veteran of the Miami-Dade Police Department has been identified as the cop who was placed on administrative duties in connection with the detainment of Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill on Sunday ahead of their season opener at Hard Rock Stadium. Danny Torres was named by the MDPD, which…
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The top contenders for the United States presidential seat have chosen their running mates, and Americans will soon hear them go head-to-head in a vice presidential debate.It will be the first time Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, and former President and Republican candidate Donald…
One of the world’s biggest consulting and accounting firms plans to monitor its employees’ locations to make sure they comply with the firm’s more stringent return-to-office mandate. PricewaterhouseCoopers, or PwC, said that its United Kingdom-based operations will be “placing more emphasis on in-person working” beginning next year, when it will transition from…
News Corp considered switching away from Google’s advertising products in 2017 – but decided against it after determining it would cost the company at least $9 million in lost revenue, a former executive at The Post’s publisher testified Tuesday. Google maintained a stranglehold on digital advertising despite offering tools that…
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV)—Early voting will soon begin for this year’s Presidential Election and a list of states have already been called into focus, the “Battleground States.”Battleground States are areas with an easily influenced electorate, where the two candidates for President — Republican Former President Donald J. Trump and Democratic Vice…
Since ancient times, humans have looked to the stars for answers to life’s biggest questions. Now, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a bizarre cosmic object that appears to be throwing a question of its own right back at us.Spotted by JWST’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless…
The Nostradamus of U.S. presidential elections has predicted a winner when the country goes to the polls in November.Pollsters will no doubt swing back and forth between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as the race comes down to the wire, but Allan Lichtman has history on his side.The American University…
When Beyoncé’s country album dropped earlier this year, she said, “This ain’t a country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album.”The pop diva made the distinction clear — that even if “Cowboy Carter” could be confided to a genre, it would still be a Beyoncé album. However, Beyoncé’s individuality and genre-hopping skills…
There are two new No. 1 teams this week in the USA TODAY Network Indiana high school football poll.Plainfield (3-0) jumped four spots to No. 1 in a jumbled Class 5A, where five teams received votes for the top spot. The Quakers dominated Mooresville 42-0 on Friday night and also…
Mayor Eric Adams wants a judge to dismiss the sexual harassment lawsuit against him because his accuser missed deposition dates. Hizzoner’s legal team accused plaintiff Lorna Beach-Mathura of engaging in “misconduct” over the missed grilling dates, the most recent one being Sept. 6. Adams’ lawyer, Alex Spiro, also is asking…
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Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush-money case has been officially put off.The sentencing…
