Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley have spent the first months of this election year fighting losing battles — separate but related. Their losses highlight the victory of Donald Trump’s “America First” over Ronald Reagan’s “tear down this wall” as the foreign policy doctrine of the Republican Party. […]Read More
Regional lender New York Community Bank finds itself in an apparently worsening predicament, just as the anniversary of last year’s banking turmoil nears. Shares of the troubled lender plunged 25% Friday to below $4 apiece after NYCB restated recent quarterly earnings lower by $2.4 billion, formally replaced its CEO and delayed the release of a key annual report. The most worrying development, though, is directly tied […]Read More
Donald Trump is looking to move closer his party’s presidential nomination Saturday, as several states are holding Republican contests where he is favored to prevail. In Missouri and Idaho, Republican voters across the state will make their selection at party-run meetings called caucuses. In Michigan, GOP-elected officials and other preselected party members will vote for […]Read More
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — Surrounded by fans at a beach town bar, Mark Robinson addressed his absent critics. “Mark Robinson is not running to be governor to be a bully over anybody,” he said. Left unmentioned: The deluge of offensive comments that made such a declaration necessary. There was the time he called school […]Read More
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Donald Trump pressed Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Friday to make a decision: Should the former president’s trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents take place before or after the November election? And if the high-profile, high-stakes trial of the GOP front-runner for president is to take […]Read More
Chrysler recalling 338,000 Jeep Grand Cherokees over potentially faulty steering
Chrysler is recalling more than 338,000 recent-model Jeep Grand Cherokees because they may have faulty steering components. In a letter posted Tuesday on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website, Chrysler said the affected vehicles’ upper control arm ball joints and steering knuckles may separate, causing a wheel to fall outward and resulting in a […]Read More
Green Dot Bank, best known for partnering with Walmart to provide basic digital banking services to customers, said it has received a proposed consent order from the Federal Reserve over allegedly faulty consumer protection and anti-money laundering practices. In a filing this week, Green Dot said the consent order — a type of agreement with […]Read More
General Motors has expanded an earlier recall of its trucks over a faulty tailgate to include 820,000 vehicles sold in the U.S. and Canada. In a recent letter posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website, GM said 570,434 trucks may be affected by the issue, which may cause tailgates to inadvertently unlatch as […]Read More
It’s been understood for some time that there is no limit on the fearmongering Donald Trump will deploy when it comes to the U.S.-Mexico border. His 2015 speech announcing his presidential candidacy came out of the gates with claims about criminals and rapists crossing into the United States; it only got more demagogic from there. […]Read More
This article, first published in 2021, has been updated. When the New York Post released emails last fall from what it claimed was Hunter Biden’s laptop, The Fact Checker produced an explainer that turned out to be one of the most-read articles in our 13-year history. A key question we examined was whether Hunter Biden, […]Read More