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The Mississippi House of Representatives passed an amended version of the Senate's medical marijuana bill on Wednesday, lowering the amount of cannabis a patient can purchase each month. What Happened The measure was approved on a 104–14 vote. The changes addressed concerns raised by Gov...

Historian Allan J. Lichtman took serious heat from the Left for predicting Donald Trump would win the presidency. Now, he’s hearing it from the Right because he’s predicting Trump is hurtling toward impeachment. He counts the many ways in his latest book, “The Case For Impeachment...

Congress is back in Washington this week to work on completing a spending bill ahead of a September 30 deadline. Not surprisingly, not only is Congress expected to miss the deadline for the bill, lawmakers can’t agree on the duration of a stopgap spending bill. The spending bill will be the...

Hulu's annual upfront presentation this week brought news beyond just the standard series pick-ups and renewals. As leaked earlier in the week, Hulu has announced its getting into the streaming "skinny bundle" game with a new service. While a final price has not been confirmed many have it pegged...

With the Senate's recent approval of the House-passed clean debt limit legislation, now might be a good time to define the debt ceiling (aka “debt limit”). The U.S. Treasury defines the debt limit as “the total amount of money that the United States government is authorized to borrow to meet...

The market took a bit of a breather Thursday following two strong days of gains. Earnings from two major banks failed to keep the momentum alive and investors focused on Best Buy's (NYSE: BBY) disappointing holiday guidance which contradicts the strong retail sales report earlier this week....

With the expiration Friday of $16 billion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits first enacted in 2009, approximately 48 million Americans will see cuts in their food stamp benefits. The cuts, which average $36 a month for a family of four, will not just affect those...

According to a statement released by the U.S. Postal Service on Friday, it lost $740 million over the last three months, increasing its year-to-date net loss to $3.9 billion. Despite claiming to have taken aggressive action to contain costs and increase efficiency, including a decrease in...

Do you live in New York, Los Angeles or Dallas? Do you subscribe to Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and enjoy watching programming on CBS (NYSE: CBS)? Don’t look now - well actually, you can’t. And, maybe not for several weeks. Reuters reported Sunday that thanks to the fact that the two...

With the August recess looming, along with the return of students to college, a bipartisan group of Senators, under the leadership of Majority Whip, Dick Durbin, reached a compromise on student loan rates, according to Politico. Senator Lamar Alexander said, “It would save students in 11...