Business
-
Hunter Biden Defense Blames Gun Store Employee for Incriminating Form
(Headline USA) Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, claimed in a Delaware court Friday that a gun store employee had helped him fill out a form that he is accused of lying on in a felony charge. The filing suggested that the brother of the former Delaware attorney general and son of its longtime U.S. senator…
-
NCAA Reaches $2.8B Settlement in Deal to Compensate College Athletes
(Headline USA) The NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars directly to athletes as soon as the 2025…
-
Nvidia’s Quarterly Profit Soars, Underscoring Dominance in AI Market (for Now…)
(Headline USA) Nvidia on Wednesday overshot Wall Street estimates as its profit skyrocketed, bolstered by the chipmaking dominance that has made the company an icon of the artificial intelligence boom. Its net income rose more than sevenfold compared to a year earlier, jumping to $14.88 billion in its first quarter that ended April 28 from…
-
Trump Rally in South Bronx Is Biggest Test Yet of Appeal Among Blue-State Voters
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump will campaign in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation Thursday, holding a rally in the South Bronx to woo minority voters days before a Manhattan jury will begin deliberations on whether to convict him of felony charges in his porn-star trial. Trump will address supporters in Crotona…
-
SCOTUS Finds No Bias against Blacks in Charleston-Area Congressional District
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that said the district discriminated against black voters. In a 6-3 decision, the court held that South Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature did nothing wrong during redistricting when it strengthened Rep. Nancy Mace’s hold on the coastal district by…
-
Rutgers, Northwestern Face Scrutiny from House GOP for Rewarding Anti-Semites
(Headline USA) The presidents of Northwestern and Rutgers universities defended their decisions to end pro-Hamas encampments through negotiations rather than police force, telling a House committee on Thursday that they defused the danger without ceding ground to protesters. “We had to get the encampment down,” Northwestern’s Michael Schill said. “The police solution was not going…
-
Could Taylor Swift Be the Kansas City Chiefs’ Next Placekicker?
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Just a year after pop-music superstar Taylor Swift’s relationship with tight end Travis Kelce turned the Kansas City Chiefs into the official NFL team of woke leftists—and feminist, pro-choice “Swifties” in particular—kicker Harrison Butker has destroyed their perfect image of the back-to-back Super Bowl champs. Now, some are lashing out with…
-
Big Tech Leads Nearly $1M Fight to Kill Online Child Safety Bills
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Google, Meta and other Big Tech companies decided to kill New York legislation aimed at protecting children online by spending almost $1 million in the lobbying battle. A group of Big Tech firms, advocacy groups and companies from other sectors have spent $823,235 lobbying Albany, N.Y., lawmakers through mid-March so…
-
Fake News Called Out for Claiming Tucker Carlson Planned Russian TV Show
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The relentless efforts of leftist media to tarnish conservative figures never cease to amaze the right. Tucker Carlson is the latest victim of false accusations by major news outlets, claiming he was launching a show on a Russian-owned channel. However, Tucker Carlson has not launched a show on Russian-owned media—nor has his…
-
Fani Willis Calls Jim Jordan a ‘Clown’ over House Investigation into Misuse of Funds
(Headline USA) Ahead of her primary win on Tuesday, embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis slammed Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, this week over his investigation into misconduct allegations against her, calling him a “clown” in an appearance on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show. Willis has largely shrugged off a litany of ethical issues by pandering…
