Category: National News

The United States Postal Service on Friday reported a net loss of nearly $2.3 billion for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019, putting it on pace to lose nearly $8 billion in 2019.

Americans awoke Saturday to some truly surprising and disturbing news: Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier/pimp of underage girls to the world’s rich and famous, had somehow managed to kill himself inside his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center.

Nicholas Sandmann’s defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post was dismissed. According to court documents, Judge William O. Bertelsman ruled that seven Washington Post articles and three tweets about now 17-year-old Sandmann were protected by the First Amendment and deemed opinion.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing to discuss the various financial challenges facing the legal cannabis industry. Right now, due to older banking regulations, banks who hold accounts of legal marijuana dispensaries face the possibility of felony charges being brought against them under federal money laundering laws.

It was the biggest hack of private data in modern history, and now, two years later, Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700 million to resolve U.S. federal and state investigations into the 2017 hack that compromised the most sensitive information of 147 million people.