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The Biden administration has cracked down on ‘junk fees’ charged by banks, airlines and concert ticket sellers, but they’re not yet eliminated entirely.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton unveils a fact-free lawsuit questioning Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, which has helped to save millions of people from hospitalization and death.
Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley all want to repeal Obamacare. Their plan to replace it is not having any plan at all.
Fiscal hawks love to claim that America is shortchanging its youth by spending so much to support its seniors. But the real economic war is between the rich and everyone else -- and the rich are winning.
The NCAA says a lawsuit over rights to the names, images and likeness of student athletes could cost it $4 billion in damages. That’s entirely its own fault.
The criminal convictions of Sam Bankman-Fried and the Binance gang just mark the beginning of the U.S. government’s drive to expose crypto as a tool for fraud and money-laundering. Yet some politicians are still trying to polish its reputation.
The worst enemies of Social Security are would-be journalists who don’t do their homework before writing about it, and consequently get everything wrong.
Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Subaru are raising wages in the wake of the UAW’s Big Three contract, but their goal is to undermine the UAW.
The Sites Reservoir won’t provide much water to farmers and urban residents, but it will cost a fortune and wreak unimaginable environmental damage
Elon Musk has gone full antisemite, raising questions about the future of his companies and their relationships with commercial and government entities.
