This Valentine’s Day, Americans will shower their sweethearts with the usual romantic staples: flowers, chocolate and pricey dinners. But the biggest spend won’t be on roses or reservations. It will be on jewelry – roughly $7 billion worth, according to the National Retail Federation. That sparkle comes at a striking moment. Gold prices recently hit […]
The Justice Department is moving to dismiss the criminal contempt case against Steve Bannon and to permanently close it. The department is also asking the Supreme Court to vacate the ruling that upheld his conviction and send the case back to be dismissed. In a filing to a federal judge in Washington on Monday, U.S. […]
President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of a major new U.S.-Canada border crossing unless Canada agrees to major trade concessions. “I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness […]
Another ransom deadline has passed in the case of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. Ten days in, there’s still no indication of her whereabouts, and there’s no proof that the demands were genuine. Plus, President Donald Trump is now threatening to block the opening of a nearly finished bridge linking Ontario and Detroit. His demand: no opening […]
Olympic skier Hunter Hess has responded after President Donald Trump lashed out over comments Hess made about representing Team USA. Meanwhile, other Olympians are backing Hess up. On Sunday, Trump called Hess a “real loser” on Truth Social after Hess said he had “mixed feelings” about representing the United States at the Winter Olympics. Unbiased. Straight Facts.TM Olympian Hunter Hess started skiing at age 3 on Mt. Bachelor in his home state of Oregon. “It brings up mixed emotions to represent […]
Three social media companies have agreed to be tested for how well they protect the mental health of teenage users. The companies — TikTok, Snap and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram — have all agreed to participate in new testing that the Mental Health Coalition announced Monday. The testing, part of a new Safe […]
American skier Breezy Johnson won Olympic gold in the women’s downhill early Sunday morning and had her medal draped around her neck before she stepped off the slopes. Within 15 minutes, her gold medal had already broken. “Well, I was jumping up and down in excitement, and it fell off,” Johnson said after the ribbon […]
In this Media Miss Minute, the Senate’s only Black Republican breaks with President Donald Trump over a controversial social media post. Plus, the Trump administration launches a probe into Tufts University over alleged misuse of student data. Media Miss by the right: Scott calls video of Obamas shared by Trump ‘most racist thing I’ve seen’ […]
Telehealth provider Hims & Hers is facing new scrutiny on Monday after Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company, filed a lawsuit against it for a compounded version of GLP-1 pills. The lawsuit alleges Hims & Hers mass-marketed unapproved compounded versions of Novo’s Wegovy and Ozempic drugs. The new lawsuit comes after Hims & Hers abruptly […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, says she has information that will clear President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton of any allegations. She just needs Trump to grant her clemency first. In his opening statement, Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, told lawmakers that “both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any […]
