• Visa sees US holiday retail sales growing 4.5%, fastest pace since 2021
    Nov 5 (Reuters) – US holiday retail sales are set to rise 4.5% year-on-year in the last two months of 2026, marking the strongest growth since 2021, according to research by Visa’s Business and Economics Insights. Here are more details: • The research said the forecast pointed to continued consumer resilience supported by solid income […]
  • Rising vet bills drive more Americans to pet insurance
    By Sahil Pandey November 5 (Reuters) – The rising cost of veterinary care is pushing more Americans to buy pet insurance, as advances in animal medicine give owners access to treatments that were uncommon or unavailable a decade ago. For Norwalk, Ohio-based Amanda Moore, 45, whose dog Tasha was diagnosed with mammary cancer, it meant […]
  • Midterms over, Democrats plunge into wide-open 2028 presidential race
    By Tim Reid WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) – With the US midterms over, Democrats are turning to what could become one of their most crowded and unpredictable presidential primaries in decades, a 2028 contest likely to expose the party’s divide over how to win back the White House. No Democrat has emerged as a clear […]
  • Democrats to investigate Trump deals, with eye on 2028 race
    By Alexandra Ulmer Nov 5 (Reuters) – After sweeping both chambers of the US Congress, Democrats will turn their new investigative powers on the Trump family’s business deals as they make what they call corruption a central part of a 2028 campaign for the White House.  Democrats seized control of both the Senate and House of […]
  • Latinos, motivated by immigration and economic woes, drive Democratic gains in Republican strongholds
    FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Nov 5 (Reuters) – When Geronimo Perez pulled up to vote at the Worth Heights Community Center in South Fort Worth, Texas, one thing was on his mind: a friend who had been deported just a week earlier. Perez, 56, cast his ballot for the entire Democratic ticket in this year’s midterm […]