Dodd-Frank Continues Scorched Earth Campaign Against Wall Street
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Those brutal Dodd-Frank bank regulations just keep tearing into Wall Street profits: JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday that third-quarter profit jumped 24% as the bank’s consumer business helped it overcome weaker trading. Shares rose about 1% in morning trading after the results were announced.…
GOP Candidate Sues Pennsylvania Newspaper Over Sexual Misconduct Allegation
Matt Rourke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The fight to fill an open congressional seat in eastern Pennsylvania took another nasty turn this week when Republican candidate Marty Nothstein sued the Allentown Morning Call over the newspaper’s reporting on an allegation that Nothstein engaged in sexual misconduct nearly two decades ago.…
Trump Split Up Many More Migrant Families Than Previously Thought, New Report Finds
Asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border.Gregory Bull/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new report by Amnesty International finds that the Trump administration has separated far more immigrant families than it has publicly admitted. Amnesty reports that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) forcibly separated more than 6,000 family units between mid-April and…
Facebook Launches Its Biggest Purge of Spam Accounts Ever
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook shut down 559 pages and 251 accounts on Thursday that violated the company’s rules by spamming users with partisan news, the social network’s largest purge to date. The accounts, all based in the United States, circulated both far-left and far-right content. Each had…
Don’t Let One Missing Journalist Get In the Way of $110 Billion in Saudi Arms Sales, Trump Says
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected calls to halt $110 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite mounting reports indicating the kingdom played a direct role in the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi critic, went missing…
Maybe Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz Will Finally Talk About Climate Change
Matt Gaetz and Donald TrumpTom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Michael has torn through the Florida Panhandle with 155 miles per hour winds, leaving hundreds of thousands of people to deal with the wreckage of their flooded homes, towns, and beaches. With storm surges as…