• JCPenney to give half a BILLION dollars back to customers through revamped loyalty program

    JCPenney is aiming to give half a billion dollars back to its customers through a revamped loyalty program.

    • CNBC

    Donald Trump set to receive $1.25 billion worth of Trump Media stock in DJT earnout bonus

    Former President Donald Trump is already the majority shareholder in Trump Media, which trades under the ticker DJT.

  • The Brooklyn Half Marathon is Sunday. Here's what you need to know.

    Runners run near the Brooklyn Bridge in a previous NYCRUNS Brooklyn Half Marathon. More than 20,000 runners are registered to complete the 13.1-mile route. [ more › ]

    • MSNBC

    Manchin is only half-right about the need for congressional shame

    It’s not exactly a secret that Capitol Hill has been difficult to watch over the last year and a half. The 117th Congress, covering President Joe Biden’s first two years in the White House, racked up some impressive accomplishments, but there are plenty of credible reasons the 118th Congress has been described as the worst Congress ever. As he prepares to exit the institution, Sen. Joe Manchin shared a few thoughts the other day about the scope of the embarrassment. The Hill reported: There were...

  • What you need to know about Trump's hush-money trial

    The presumptive Republican nominee for president will juggle a six-week trial in New York with campaigning.

  • Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime

    Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The curious aspect of the case is that the prosecutors are stressing that they will prove largely uncontested facts. Indeed, if all of these facts of payments, non-disclosure agreements, and...

  • Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, all he needs now is a crime

    We’ve never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before the 2024 election

  • Letter: More regulation needed for fast-moving e-bikes

    As I walk my dog on the hilly streets of Makakilo, kids as young as 8 years old to teens often come flying downhill at a very high speed — perhaps 80 mph or more on their e-bikes. Yeah, it is fun to do, but not on the sidewalks where people walk and jog. Sometimes they use the small neighborhood parks and act crazy. On other occasions I see a parent with a much younger child on his lap doing the same thing.

  • Ross County – Volunteers Needed for Chillicothe Half Marathon & 5K

    CHILLICOTHE, Ohio – As preparations ramp up for the Chillicothe Half Marathon & 5K on Saturday, June 1st, organizers are calling on volunteers to join in and make the event a success. With various opportunities available, volunteers will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth running of the race, including distributing medals to runners, […]

  • Billion-Dollar Buddies? Forecasting A Boom in the AI Companion Industry

    The industry of companion apps and robots powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly expanding. Greg Isenberg, formerly of WeWork’s startup hub, recently speculated on the financial potential of chatbots that simulate relationships, drawing from the behavior of a young investor who said he spent $10,000 monthly on such technology. On a post on X […]

  • France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’

    Coalition of civil society groups says Paris should return harsh reparations imposed on Caribbean state two hundred years agoFrance should repay billions of dollars to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island’s independence, according to a coalition of civil society groups that is launching a new push for reparations.The Caribbean island state became the first in the region to win its independence in 1804 after a revolt by enslaved...

  • Dollar & Yields Soar As Fed-Fears Trump WW3-Worries

    Dollar & Yields Soar As Fed-Fears Trump WW3-Worries Mixed data overnight out of China (GDP beat, Retail sales & Industrial production miss) was matched by an equally divergent day of macro in the US with ugly housing data but strong industrial production, but once again the markets were ping-ponged by Fed fears (rate-cuts-off - Fed Vice-Chair Jefferson and Powell both sang from the same 'higher for longer' hymnsheet with the latter finally admitting that "recent [inflation] data...