Department of Justice Sues Visa, Alleges the Card Issuer Monopolizes Debit Card Markets

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market. The complaint filed Tuesday says Visa penalizes merchants and banks who don’t use Visa’s own payment processing technology to process debit…MORE

Trump Calls for 100% Tariffs on Cars Made in Mexico as Part of Us Manufacturing Plan

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump has pledged to stop U.S. businesses from shipping jobs overseas and to take other countries’ jobs and factories by relying heavily on sweeping tariffs. That’s despite economists’ persistent warnings that doing so could also dramatically raise prices for domestic consumers. The former president laid out a broad array of…MORE

American Consumers Are Feeling Less Confident as Concerns About Jobs Take Center Stage

WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers are feeling less confident this month and concerns about jobs rose significantly. The Conference Board, a business research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 98.7 in September, from 105.6 in August. It was the biggest month=to-month decline since August of 2021. The index measures both Americans’…MORE

A State Appeals Court Denied Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Request to Block the Fair’s Ban on Firearms

(WBAP/KLIF) – Attorney General Paxton sued the State Fair of Texas and the City of Dallas arguing that the gun ban violates state law since Fair Park is owned by the city and therefore government property. However, city and fair officials argued that the ban was within their rights because the land is leased by…MORE

Brett Favre Announces He’s Suffering From Parkinson’s Disease

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he told a congressional committee Tuesday. Favre made the disclosure as part of his testimony about a welfare misspending scandal in Mississippi. Favre, who does not face criminal charges, has repaid just over $1 million in speaking fees funded by a…MORE

Israel-Hamas War Latest: Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill at Least 7 as People Flee South Lebanon

(AP) – Palestinian officials say Israel’s strikes early Tuesday killed at least seven people in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. They said at least 15 others, including women and children, were injured in the strikes. Israel’s military says it will do “whatever is necessary” to push Hezbollah away from Lebanon’s border with Israel. The…MORE

Boeing Makes a ‘Final Offer’ to Striking Workers, but Union Says It’s Not Good Enough

(AP) – Boeing is making what it calls a “best and final offer” to striking union machinists, but the union says it won’t vote by Boeing’s deadline. The proposed contract put out on Monday includes bigger raises and larger bonuses than the offer union members overwhelmingly rejected this month. But the machinists’ union says the…MORE

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