A new rule that will force businesses to make it easier for customers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships is to be introduced in the US. The “click-to-cancel” rule will ban retailers and businesses from misleading consumers about subscriptions and require them to obtain people’s consent before charging for memberships, auto-renewals, and programmes linked to free trials. In the Federal ...
President Joe Biden, who has long idolized Robert F. Kennedy and who served for decades in the Senate with Edward M. Kennedy, on Wednesday delivered an emotional eulogy for Ethel Kennedy. He dabbed his eyes several times. He apologized for his emotions. His voice grew faint as he recounted the ways in which Ethel Kennedy, Robert’s widow, comforted him in ...
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hoped the ongoing violence in the Middle East might simmer below the surface in the final weeks of the presidential race, but fresh Israeli military offensives are making that virtually impossible, U.S. officials and campaign aides say. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set the Gaza Strip ablaze with a renewed bombing campaign ...
Powered by small-dollar donors, Democrats have seized control of the fundraising game in the battle for the House and the Senate, leaving Republicans at a disadvantage — and increasingly reliant on a small clutch of mega-rich donors. In 25 of the 26 most competitive House races, the Democratic candidate raised more than the Republican in the third quarter, including 16 ...
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord, a veteran of America’s clandestine operations who served as the point man for the transactions in the Iran-contra affair, the arms-for-hostages scandal that metastasized into the most serious crisis of the Reagan administration, died Oct. 15 at a nursing home in Port Orange, Fla. He was 92. A grandson, John Secord Jr., ...
A Georgia judge on Wednesday blocked a series of rules approved this year by a pro-Trump majority of the state’s election board, admonishing the board in stinging language that the rules are “ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VOID.” The judge struck down more than a half-dozen new rules, including one that allowed county election officials to launch investigations of irregularities, which critics ...
The environmental fight that played out inside the Supreme Court on Wednesday was unusual in many ways: It featured poop, a whopping $10 billion fine and one of the nation’s greenest cities — San Francisco — battling the Environmental Protection Agency over water pollution rules in a case that could reverberate beyond the Bay Area. During lively oral arguments, the ...
DORAL, Fla. — Donald Trump on Wednesday at times appeared to attempt a more measured tone on immigration, even as he reprised some false, alarmist attacks against migrants during a town hall that will be televised on the Spanish-language network Univision. Trump has frequently warned of a migrant “invasion,” and he has used dehumanizing language to describe undocumented immigrants, including ...
SPARKS, Nev. — Ed Lawson, the longtime mayor of this small desert city of about 110,000 just outside Reno, said he has never voted for a Democrat. That will change next month when he plans to vote for Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) over her Republican challenger, Sam Brown. “Sam Brown doesn’t get it,” Lawson said in an interview. “He certainly ...
BERLIN — President Joe Biden leaves Thursday for what is likely to be his final trip as president to Europe, where Germany will bestow its highest honor on him for spearheading global efforts to protect Ukraine as European leaders strategize for a potential future in which the United States could be less engaged in the transatlantic alliance. Biden had initially ...