The top U.S. consumer watchdog is cracking down on companies that operate popular digital payment apps. Seven nonbank companies will soon be subject to federal oversight, according to a new rule finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Thursday. Apple, Google, Amazon, PayPal, Block, Zelle, and Venmo will face the same supervision as […]

A quiet shift on patrol quickly changed for two South St. Paul Police Officers who raced to save a woman from a burning home early Wednesday morning.It was 30 minutes before Sgt. Michael Dahl and Officer Aaron Schmidt were set to get off their shift when the call came across their dispatch radio a house fire on the 100 Block of Frost Avenue West with people possibly trapped....

Large companies that offer digital wallets and payment apps will now be overseen by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB finalized a rule Thursday to bring companies handling more than 50 million transactions a year under its supervision. This will include Apple, Google, Amazon, PayPal, Block, Venmo and Zelle, according to CNBC. "Digital...

People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.It claims it uses law to confront the climate crisis.What it really does is pay lawyers to torture people who try to do useful things.Example: America needs minerals like copper and silver to make things. Even President Joe Biden made a speech saying America will nee...

The other day we talked about some of the encouraging signs that Republicans in Congress are going to be a lot more responsive to their voters this time around. Unlike what we saw following the 2016 election, it doesn’t look like Republican lawmakers are deathly terrified of the Left anymore. They’re not worried about being ...

The maker of a popular marijuana vaping device posted a video to social media this week targeting Instagram and its parent company, Meta, for what it describes as an overly aggressive campaign to flag and remove cannabis-related content. Puffco’s new video asserts that Instagram’s policing of cannabis posts by brands and individuals effectively stifles efforts […]The p...

Exxon, Hess, and CNOOC plan to add a fourth production vessel to the ones already operating in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, Hess Corp.s CEO has said, as quoted by Reuters. The floating production, storage, and offloading vessel should reach its destination in the first quarter of next year, John Hess said, speaking at the Wolfe Research oil and gas conference. The start of operation for ...

Exxon has decided to pull out of an exploration block offshore Suriname and transfer its 50% stake to partner Petronas, the Suriname state oil company Staatsolie said in a news release. The exit is part of Exxons ongoing asset evaluation, Staatsolie said, adding that after the transfer, Petronas will remain the single owner of the exploration rights to Block 52. The contract for exploration in ...

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has rejected the states request to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked and declared unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. However, since the appeals court previously limited the block to just five school districts involved in ongoing litigation, […]

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The Senate on Wednesday evening did not approve Senator Bernie Sanders' efforts to block billions in U.S. arms sales to Israel.

“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has blocked her proposal to allow new mothers to vote by proxy for several months from being included in […]

State officials took another loss in a case arguing against the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.