“You know, when buying snacks for the game, you might have noticed one thing: Sports drink bottles are smaller. A bag of chips has fewer chips, but they’re still charging us just as much.”

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is facing a challenging primary battle‚ potentially including her former chief of staff‚ reflecting just how polarizing a figure she has become in her home state of South Carolina.  Mace fought off a tough primary challenger backed by former President Trump in 2022‚ proving herself to be a resilient candidate.  But this year‚ the challenges are coming from different reasons — and some of them are personal and potent. “I don’t know if South...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin transferred his duties to his deputy as he is hospitalized for treatment for symptoms “suggesting an emergent bladder issue‚” according to the Pentagon. Austin has been admitted into the critical care unit at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center‚ and it is “not clear how long Secretary Austin will remain hospitalized‚” according to a statement released Sunday night from officials at the hospital. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks assumed the...

Joe Biden is a crisis in the making. The last president to run for reelection who was so obviously incapable of serving another four years was FDR in 1944. But Roosevelt was in the midst of ably managing a world war and‚ as it turned out‚ chose his vice president wisely. Biden’s mental and physical diminishment has been clear for some time and has been even more alarming the last several weeks. The Robert Hur report on his mishandling of classified documents underlined his reduced state...

U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on Sunday for "symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue‚" officials have revealed. "Earlier today‚ Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III was transported by his security detail to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be seen for symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue‚" Dr John Maddox‚ trauma medical director‚ and Dr Gregory Chesnut‚ director of the Center for Prostate Disease Research of the...

Democratic lawmakers are increasingly worried that former President Donald Trump will find a way to decimate the nation’s cyber defense agency if he wins a second term. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency — the main agency in charge of protecting critical infrastructure‚ like pipelines and hospitals‚ from hackers — found itself on Trump’s target list in the last days of his first term for debunking his false election fraud claims. It could face enormous pressure starting on day one...

Israel security forces rescued two Hamas-held hostages‚ Fernando Marman (61) and Louis Har (70)‚ both dual citizens of Israel and Argentina‚ in a daring nighttime raid Monday in Rafah near the Egyptian border. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the work of the Shin Bet and the Israel Defense forces‚ and in the face of world criticism‚ said only "military pressure" would free the rest of the captives. The raid raised hopes in Israel that even more hostages could be...

Amazon Web Services is still the cloud leader. But Microsoft is quickly closing the gap. While Microsoft doesn’t disclose revenue figures for its Azure cloud infrastructure‚ analyst figures suggest that five years ago it was half as big as AWS. Now‚ it’s about three-quarters the size of its top rival‚ analysts estimate. Part of Microsoft’s recent momentum is because of artificial intelligence. Amy Hood‚ the company’s finance chief‚ said on Microsoft’s Jan. 30 earnings...

That President Joe Biden is an old man is nothing new. It’s also not groundbreaking to say that he’s unpopular with broad swathes of Americans. But after last week’s special counsel report on Biden’s handling of classified documents highlighted lapses in Biden’s memory during questioning‚ a familiar question has taken hold: Is Biden really the best option Democrats have in 2024? This malaise isn’t limited to Biden; this presidential cycle there’s widespread...