Former US President Donald Trump speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images White House aides feared Trump could be forced from office in wake of January 6 attack. Talks of invoking the 25th Amendment picked up after…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Time spent with mobile increased by an average of 31 minutes per US adult in 2020, reaching 4 hours and 16 minutes. This year, the time US adults spend on mobile devices will continue to grow, albeit at a slower rate than last year. Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get…
A still from a video that shows the medical students in white coats walking out. Illustration by Insider. Brendan Scorpio/Insider University of Michigan med students walked out of their white coat ceremony on Sunday. They were protesting the choice of Dr. Kristin Collier, an avowed anti-abortion medic, as keynote speaker. Dozens of students had signed…
Protesters took to the streets of New York in 2017 for the Fight for $15 campaign for a higher hourly wage. Erik Mcgregor/Getty Images The current federal minimum wage has been $7.25 for 13 straight years now; the last increase was July 24, 2009. Many states and localities have taken matters into their own hands…
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa speaks with reporters in the Senate subway in Washington, DC, on April 9, 2019. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Sen. Chuck Grassley wants to peg the child tax credit to inflation. The changes he seeks so far are far less sweeping than what most Democrats support. The Grassley proposal does…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D). Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images NYC launched a student-loan forgiveness program for behavioral health workers. To qualify, the workers must be employed at NYC Health + Hospitals for at least three years. The program will close when it reaches $1 million in student loans forgiven. Student-loan relief might be on…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images Fed Chairman Jerome Powell doesn’t have to kill every stock market rally, according to Fundstrat’s Tom Lee.That’s because the Fed is likely to raise interest rates to its neutral target of 2.5% this week, he said.“The risk/reward is skewed to upside in 2H, [and] if…
Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser and Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. Drew Angerer/Getty Images and Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images Rep. Matt Gaetz has been characterizing abortion rights protestors as ugly and physically grotesque. Now, even the president of a major anti-abortion group says his comments are “hideous.” Gaetz, under investigation…
Google has started making good on its promise to update and optimize 20 of its apps for tablets. The tech giant has rolled out a number of new features for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Keep, which all take advantage of tablets’ larger screens. They’re tools you can use to make it easier to…
The Play Store is officially 10 years old, and Google is eager to mark the occasion. On top of a new logo in line with the tech giant’s current aesthetic (see above), there’s a promotion starting July 25th that offers 10 times the usual Play Points to rewards program members who make purchases. Google launched…