The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism is not unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. read more
Tired of being underserved and overbilled by [less than optimum] regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA -- (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency). The inter-local agency collaborative venture then set about building an "open access" fiber network that allows any ISP to then come and compete on the shared network. read more
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza from a newly built floating pier anchored in the Mediterranean began arriving on the Gaza shore Friday morning, the Pentagon said, a day after the U.S. finished constructing the quay. read more
Taylor Swift's global dominance is such that even the NFL, which will happily overpower other sports on days previously sacred to them -- the NBA on Christmas Day and college football on Black Friday -- has to yield when it comes to her return to the United States to wrap up her "Eras Tour." read more
Are tacos and burritos sandwiches? A judge in Indiana thinks so. The ruling stems from a legal battle that started in 2022, when Martin Quintana, a developer, unveiled plans to open his restaurant, "The Famous Taco Mexican Grill," on a strip mall in Fort Wayne, Indiana. read more
Inflation slowed last month, offering a note of relief to cash-strapped shoppers after three months of bigger-than-expected price increases. read more
World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was detained by Louisville Metro Police on Friday morning while trying to drive into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club, the site of this week's PGA Championship. According to ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington, who witnessed the incident, Scheffler was trying to drive around a crash scene on a median. read more
A symbol affiliated with former President Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" fallacy was on display at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house in 2021, a New York Times investigation found Thursday. read more
The economy has been resilient, the job market healthy and consumers keep spending, but more Americans are becoming financially overextended -- especially on their credit cards. read more
Federico Kochlowski, the new president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, had a not-so-subtle message for workers as they headed to the polls this week to vote in a potentially historic union election. "[A]lthough I respect everyone's right to take a position on this matter, I prefer that we work on our future together without anyone else between us," he wrote. read more
In a new interview, [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] running mate, Nicole Shanahan, seemed to acknowledge that those lofty ambitions may be a pipe dream, and that the duo is focused on simply trying to influence the major parties' agendas. read more
At least nine Republican lawmakers traveled to New York to appear in court alongside former President Trump Thursday, the latest in a string of GOP lawmakers to attend the hush money trial. read more
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice. read more
Trump Media and Technology Group will miss a deadline to file a required Securities and Exchange Commission form, according to a Wednesday filing from the company ... read more
China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged a "new era" of partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States, which they cast as an aggressive Cold War hegemon sowing chaos across the world. read more
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