Donald Trump is taking his first steps toward raising the massive amounts of money needed for a national presidential race, aiming to broaden his primary insurgency into a full-fledged general election campaign and unite the fractured Republican Party behind him. Trump is reaching out to party heavyweights, hoping to repair… Read More
Welcome! Wal-Mart door greeters returning
Those smiley door greeters are back at Wal-Mart. The nation’s largest retailer says in a blog post this week that it’s bringing back door greeters to a majority of its more than 5,000 stores by mid-summer to improve customer service. For the remainder of the stores, which have had problems… Read More
Obama’s economy: Poor job growth reported in April
U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in April after a streak of solid monthly gains, adding 160,000 jobs, the fewest in seven months. The unemployment rate remained at a low of 5 percent, roughly the same level it has been since the fall. The job gain was down from the… Read More
Bitcoin’s self-proclaimed founder says he’s scared
The man who claimed to be the mysterious founder of bitcoin appears to be stepping back into the shadows, leaving numerous questions in his wake. Three days after Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright came forward as “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the unknown creator of the digital currency bitcoin, he has backtracked in a… Read More
NYC to start charging for plastic bags
Every minute of every day, usually without thinking, thousands of New Yorkers reach across the counter at shops and supermarkets and accept a disposable plastic bag. The city’s sanitation department estimates 10 billion bags a year are tossed in the trash — roughly 19,000 per minute. Now, city officials are… Read More
Dem “traps” ready and waiting for Trump
Long before Donald Trump swatted away his Republican presidential rivals, his likely Democratic opponent and her allies began laying traps for him. Priorities USA, the lead super PAC backing Hillary Clinton, has already reserved $91 million in television advertising that will start next month and continue through Election Day. In… Read More
[Report] Feds closing in on Clinton
Infamous Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, also known by his moniker ‘Guccifer,’ made a shocking admission during an interview yesterday. Not only did he gain access to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s home-brew email server repeatedly; he was one of nearly a dozen hackers who did so, and getting in was… Read More
[Health alert] Madman poisoning grocery store food
Police say they’ve taken a lunatic into custody after he admitted to spraying a contaminant that officials believe contained mouse poison on unpackaged food at several Michigan grocery stores. An investigation indicated the man sprayed a mixture of hand sanitizer, water and mouse poison on produce and open food bars… Read More
Mark Cuban: Trump critics are all wrong
Billionaire basketball owner and “Shark Tank” host Mark Cuban came to the defense of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump yesterday, saying that Trump’s criticism of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn’t sexist — it’s fair. “People talk about Donald being sexist. There’s nothing he’s said about a woman that… Read More
[Exclusive] These numbers PROVE Hillary can’t win
By Stephen Dietrich, Managing Editor In November, the GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will be elected in a landslide victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This isn’t wishful thinking or a dire warning. This is simply cold, hard math — and it is backed up by political science… Read More