Month: July 2024

Wash­ing­ton, D.C., Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bri­an Schwalb sued Stub­Hub on Wednes­day, accus­ing the online tick­et exchange plat­form of decep­tive pric­ing. The law­suit alleges that Stub­Hub uses a sys­tem called “drip pric­ing,” in which the plat­form adver­tis­es a decep­tive­ly low price to tick­et buy­ers but charges a much high­er total at check­out after adding on hid­den fees. […]

(The Cen­ter Square) – Abe Hamadeh, one of two Repub­li­can can­di­dates endorsed by for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, had a nar­row lead in Arizona’s con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict 8 Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry late Tues­day night. If Hamadeh’s lead holds, his win would come only a few months after the Ari­zona Appeals court reject­ed his chal­lenge to his loss in […]

(The Cen­ter Square) – Abe Hamadeh, one of two Repub­li­can can­di­dates endorsed by for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, had a nar­row lead in Arizona’s con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict 8 Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry late Tues­day night. If Hamadeh’s lead holds, his win would come only a few months after the Ari­zona Appeals court reject­ed his chal­lenge to his loss in […]

Top pro­gres­sives in Con­gress are embrac­ing Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris despite a tack to the mid­dle in the ear­ly days of her run for pres­i­dent. Har­ris has attempt­ed to reverse or clar­i­fy many of the lib­er­al views she espoused five years ago, dur­ing her run in the 2020 pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry. On Fri­day, her cam­paign dis­avowed […]

The first round of August’s Social Secu­ri­ty pay­ments, worth up to $4,873 for the high­­est-income earn­ers who retire at age 70, will go out to the first group of retirees in two weeks. Here is every­thing to know about this month’s Social Secu­ri­ty pay­ments. What is it? Pres­i­dent Franklin D. Roo­sevelt signed the Social Secu­ri­ty Act into law in 1935, cre­at­ing […]

As he cam­paigned in 2018 to be the next gov­er­nor of Illi­nois, Demo­c­rat J.B. Pritzk­er was on a mis­sion to con­vince vot­ers of his com­mit­ment to fight­ing cli­mate change. In an inter­view with the Chica­go Sun-Times, the wealthy busi­ness­man and heir to the Hyatt hotel chain for­tune tout­ed his back­ing of the Paris Cli­mate Accord and […]

Mil­lions of retirees can expect to see their Social Secu­ri­ty ben­e­fits for the month of August hit their bank account on Aug. 14. The amount of Social Secu­ri­ty ben­e­fits retirees receive depends on the age at which they retire, the num­ber of years they paid into the sys­tem, and the amount of mon­ey they paid […]

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden‘s trio of pro­posed changes to the Supreme Court stand next to no chance of becom­ing law. That doesn’t mean they can’t be use­ful for Democ­rats. “In recent years, extreme opin­ions at the Supreme Court has hand­ed down have under­mined long-estab­lished civli rights prin­ci­ples and pro­tec­tions,” Biden said Mon­day in Austin, Texas. “In […]