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Versant Raises 2026 Outlook Following Mixed Q2 Results
Versant reported net income of $211 million, down 30% from $302 million a year earlier. Revenue fell 3.8% to $1.64 billion, topping analyst expectations. Versant posted earnings per share of $1.49, compared with $2.09 a year earlier and above the $1.42 per share analyst expectations, according to Yahoo Finance. Versant beat Wall Street expectations in…
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Supreme Court must go to bat for baseball great Roberto Clemente — and defend our property rights
Roberto Clemente collected exactly 3,000 hits in his Hall of Fame career. Puerto Rico’s government collected something else from his name: roughly $15 million. In 2021, the commonwealth enacted laws requiring motorists to pay extra for license plates and registration tags bearing the baseball legend’s name, image, jersey number 21 and references to his hit…
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The nonsense of deporting immigrants who came legally and do much-needed work
As of this week, with a green light from the Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority, President Trump is free to mount his long-promised mass deportation campaign in earnest. His Homeland Security Department notified employers last week that about 350,000 Haitian immigrants no longer are protected, triggering mass layoffs. His blood-stained Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has…
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Trump plays ‘game-show’ tricks with donors as insiders raise doubts: report
President Donald Trump’s recent messaging to donors has insiders warning it’s just more of his “game-show-style drama.” Trump has recently been telling his backers that he’s chosen Vice President JD Vance to be his successor, but anonymous sources told the Washington Post Thursday they aren’t sure that’s true. “At the end of the day, we…
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How Americans can defend their right to vote
The numbers are alarming. More than half a million mail ballots cast in the 2024 elections were rejected and never counted. Not because they were illegitimate, but because voters often made easily avoidable mistakes. They forgot to sign and date the envelope or get a witness to sign. Or their signature was out of date.…
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‘Is this legal?’: Trump-appointed judge’s ‘weird’ corporate side-hustle stuns insiders
A judge appointed by President Donald Trump ran a PR company for corporations that made clients and staffers “uncomfortable” about the ethical and legal implications, according to a new report. Judge Jennifer Mascott, a former law professor who now sits on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, worked out of her office at public relations…
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Two Fossil Fuel Companies Are Betting Big on Data Centers
It’s been a banner year for oil and gas companies. Some of the world’s biggest oil giants have announced billions of dollars in quarterly profits over the past two weeks, boosted largely by the soaring price of oil thanks to the conflict in the Middle East. But the artificial intelligence boom is also giving fossil…
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L.A. homeless provider has paid CEO who lives in Hawaii $1.6 million in salary, vacation over two years
As public spending on homelessness has come under increasing scrutiny, a nonprofit that runs domestic violence shelters in Southern California has paid its CEO, who lives in Hawaii, more than $1.6 million in salary, vacation pay and other compensation for the last two years of tax filings, a sum that is several times larger than…
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Hackers just broke into America’s tap water
In the teensy Midwestern town of Braham, homemade pie capital of Minnesota, something unusual in the municipality’s computer systems knocked the city’s entire water supply offline last week. Within a few hours, dozens of other Minnesota cities discovered that their water and wastewater utilities, too, had been compromised, most likely as part of a massive…
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Anti-Trump Canadian lunatic who slapped teen suffers another embarrassing blow – as she was ordered deported
The lefty Canadian illegal immigrant who slapped a teenage girl at the Jersey Shore wearing pro-Trump clothing embarrassingly failed to raise half the money requested for her legal fund. An online fundraiser for Kaitlyn Tracey’s legal expenses in her immigration case only raised $4,857 of its $10,000 goal — a final, humiliating blow as she…