Walmart would likely see some impact from tariffs President Donald Trump is seeking to impose, especially if ones threatened against Canada and Mexico are implemented, the retailer said Thursday. The big-box giant reported quarterly earnings and also signaled slowing profit growth. Its shares fell about 6% amid a broader market decline Thursday morning. In an interview with CNBC, Chief […]
JetBlue Airways is talking with “multiple airlines” about a potential new partnership after federal judges struck down two previous deals, the carrier’s president said Wednesday. “If we find a deal that’s accretive, we’ll absolutely do it,” JetBlue’s president, Marty St. George, said at a Barclays industry conference. A federal judge in 2023 ruled the New York airline’s partnership in the Northeast with American Airlines was anticompetitive, while a different judge […]
Walmart is known for its low prices and no frills approach. So it may come as a surprise that wealthier shoppers are helping to fuel the retailer’s growth. For more than two years, the discounter has noticed more customers with six-figure incomes shopping on its website and in its stores. Households earning more than $100,000 made […]
The Senate on Thursday voted 51-49 to confirm Kash Patel as FBI director. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted ‘yes’ on the conservative firebrand’s confirmation, even while moderates Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted ‘no.’ A vote to invoke cloture and begin two hours of debate on the nominee passed 51 to 47 earlier […]
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said Ukraine needs to ‘tone down’ its criticism of President Donald Trump and its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy needs to ‘come back to the table’ to work out an economic deal with the U.S. Waltz spoke on ‘Fox & Friends’ a day after Zelenskyy suggested Trump is in a ‘disinformation space’ […]
Many pro-Trump Republicans took to social media on Thursday to celebrate Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s announcement that he would be leaving the Senate at the end of his term, with one commentator saying he has ‘done so much destruction’ to the Republican Party. At 83 years old, McConnell has been in the Senate for […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released guidance Wednesday to implement sex-based definitions across the federal government and partners to expand President Donald Trump’s executive order signed last month titled, ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.’ HHS announced the department will also be working ‘to […]
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., endorsed President Donald Trump in a Wednesday post on X, making the unorthodox announcement more than three months after Election Day 2024. When making the announcement, Paul pointed to Trump’s cabinet picks and a Truth Social post in which the commander in chief blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ‘A few people […]
Senate Republicans are embarking Thursday afternoon on an amendment free-for-all expected to keep lawmakers voting through the night — all to green-light a fiscal blueprint President Donald Trump doesn’t favor. The budget measure the Senate is on track to adopt at the end of an arduous “vote-a-rama” sets a framework for a party-line package of […]
The shadow primary to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell was already in full swing. Now it’s coming out into the open. The former Senate GOP leader’s departure was not unexpected — he spent the opening days of his final term in the Senate shooting down President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. But his official upcoming exit poses […]