There are a lot of people who have been and continue to be committed to the idea that this year’s Republican presidential nominating contest is competitive. Some in the media are committed, certainly, both defensively — what if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis somehow pulled it off! — and because a contest with an uncertain outcome […]Read More
A federal judge blocked JetBlue Airways’ purchase of budget rival Spirit Airlines, a major win for Biden’s Justice Department, which sued to stop the merger, alleging it would drive up fares for some of the most price-sensitive consumers. JetBlue’s proposed $3.8 billion purchase of discounter Spirit would have produced the country’s fifth-largest airline, a deal the carriers […]Read More
There are plenty of reasons not to buy an electric vehicle in 2024: Auto loan rates are high. Despite a recent wave of discounting, many EVs remain pricier than gas-burning cars. And an incomplete network of sometimes glitchy chargers has stoked drivers’ “range anxiety” about running out of juice. But while the all-electric market is […]Read More
Consumers who got a taste of higher-end amenities during the last couple years’ travel boom aren’t too keen to go back to basic economy, and the travel industry doesn’t want them to. “If ‘revenge travel’ was then, emboldened travel is now,” said Erika Richter, a spokesperson for the American Society of Travel Advisors, which has […]Read More
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The GOP presidential race barreled into New Hampshire on Tuesday, with Donald Trump aiming to build on a landslide victory in Iowa, as his rivals and critics looked to regroup in a battleground seen as perhaps the final chance of slowing his march to the nomination. The results in Iowa emboldened supporters […]Read More
Senators on Tuesday will vote on whether to require the Biden administration to look into potential human rights abuses perpetrated by Israel in its military campaign in Gaza. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is forcing the politically tricky vote using a mechanism in U.S. foreign assistance law that requires the […]Read More
As the 2024 election year begins, the Iowa caucuses ring in the race with political fanfare and a flurry of media attention — and, to the disappointment of many an American history teacher, questions about what exactly a caucus is. While the practice of caucusing — when voters gather at their local voting precinct to […]Read More
DES MOINES — Across Iowa, Republicans were listening to political speeches and casting ballots in the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. Supporters of former president Donald Trump hadn’t yet made it to his watch party. Not even the bartender had shown up. Then, about 7:30 p.m. local time, smartphone screens around the state lit up with […]Read More
AMES, Iowa — As Ron McFarland walked up to his precinct site at Iowa State University to caucus for Donald Trump, Nikki Haley volunteer Mindy Ellmer made one final plea. Eyeing the 69-year-old retired coach’s red letterman jacket, she told McFarland that she, a Texas resident, hoped he would throw his support behind the former […]Read More
Preliminary Iowa Republican caucus entrance polls on Monday highlighted the grip former president Donald Trump maintains on Republican voters and the extent to which his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged have dominated the GOP electorate. Nearly two-thirds of Iowa caucus-goers said President Biden did not legitimately win the election in 2020, according […]Read More