How to close your DMs on Twitter to prevent spam and unwanted messages

You can close your DMs on Twitter in a few simple steps on desktop or mobile. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Depending on how your Twitter settings are configured, strangers you don’t follow may be allowed to DM you. This setting allows for a lot of potential spam and unwanted messages….

US stocks fall after last week’s big rally as investors digest Fed messaging on rate hikes

Reuters / Brendan McDermid US stocks ended lower on Monday, losing steam after last week’s huge rally.  Investors digested comments from Fed officials. Vice chair Lael Brainard said the pace of rate hike could soon slow.  Crypto was still dealing with the fallout from FTX’s collapse,with bitcoin hovering at two-year lows.   US stocks fell on…

Senate same-sex marriage bill says people with ‘diverse beliefs about the role of gender in marriage’ are ‘due proper respect’

Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Rob Portman were among the bipartisan group of senators who amended the bill. Alex Wong/Getty Images A bipartisan group of senators released the text of their amendment to a bill that codifies same-sex marriage. The bill easily passed the House in July, but GOP senators wanted further religious protections. They…

Saudi defense officials rented suites at Trump’s DC hotel that cost $10,500 right before MBS visited White House

President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on March 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan/Getty Images Officials from six countries spent over $750k at Trump’s DC hotel in 2017 and 2018, documents show. The officials stayed at Trump’s hotel amid rocky periods in relations between their…

Elon Musk responds to criticism around Twitter: ‘There’s no way to make everyone happy, that’s for sure’

Elon Musk. Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images Twitter has recently faced product flip-flopping, mass layoffs, high-profile exec departures, rampant account impersonations, a loss of advertisers, and more. While speaking virtually at the G20 summit recently, Elon Musk addressed the criticism he’s consequently received. “There’s no way to make everyone happy, that’s for sure,” he said. Twitter has…

Spirit is dropping 37 routes from its network in a significant adjustment that targets Florida — see the full list

Spirit Airlines A319 aircraft. Marcus Mainka/Shutterstock Spirit Airlines has temporarily cut 37 routes from its network starting in January.  Florida is being particularly impacted, with 26 of the lost routes touching the Sunshine State.  The airline is calling the cuts temporary, with plans to restore many of them in 2023. Spirit Airlines is temporarily losing…

Rudy Giuliani will not face criminal charges from a foreign lobbying investigation led by his former prosecutor’s office, feds say

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on June 7, 2022, in New York. Mary Altaffer/Associated Press Federal prosecutors in New York have declined to bring criminal charges against Rudy Giuliani following an investigation centered on whether the former New York City mayor illegally lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials. In a…

Foreign governments dropped $750,000 on Trump’s DC hotel during key lobbying pushes, subpoenaed documents show

The north entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Mark Tenally/AP Documents released Monday detail foreign government spending at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC. The documents show Saudi Arabia and the UAE rented rooms while lobbying the Trump administration. Rep. Carolyn Maloney said the records show Trump may have been “guided by his…

Putin’s ‘desperation’ in Ukraine is making Russia more dependent on other pariah states, top Pentagon official says

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in July 2018. Gulshan Khan/Pool via REUTERS Russia is facing increasing international isolation because of its war against Ukraine. Moscow is not totally alone, as countries continue to buy its oil and, in some cases, send it arms. Some of those countries are also isolated,…

J.D. Vance — who Trump once joked was ‘kissing my ass’ — comes to his defense as GOP points fingers for their disappointing midterm results

Former President Donald Trump and Sen.-elect J.D. Vance. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Senator-elect J.D. Vance has come to the defense of former President Donald Trump. The GOP has blamed Trump for the party’s setbacks in the 2022 midterm elections.  Vance wrote in an op-ed that “blaming Trump isn’t just wrong on the facts, it is counterproductive.”…