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Cetera has bolstered its wealth advisor network with the addition of a South Carolina-based financial planning practice.

The South Carolina House has given key approval to a bill allowing liquor stores to open for a few hours on Sunday if their local governments allow it

The Bayer Corporation has spent more than $10 billion to settle lawsuits that claim the popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer

San Francisco-based RIA Perigon is celebrating Valentine’s Day by unveiling a hefty addition to its independent advisor network.

NATO is a "sacred commitment" for the US, President Joe Biden has said as he slammed his predecessor Donald Trump for his recent remarks encouraging Russia to attack certain nations of the 74-year-old military alliance by calling the comments «dangerous» and «un-American». Biden said the remarks by Trump, his likely challenger in the November 5 Presidential polls, underscored the urgency of passing a USD 95 billion foreign aid package for US allies. The bill just passed the Senate, but it faces political headwinds in the House. At the White House on Tuesday, Biden said a failure to pass the package — which includes USD 60bn for Ukraine — would be «playing into Putin's hands».

Donald Trump's imploring Republicans to pass fresh aid for Ukraine. “For God sake, it’s dumb, it’s shameful, it’s dangerous, it’s un-American," Joe Biden said on Tuesday at the White House, referring to the former president’s comments. Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner, said that he would not want the US to come to the defense of NATO allies who did not meet the alliance’s targets for defense spending if Moscow attacked them.

The race for the Republican nomination got personal Saturday when Donald Trump questioned the absence of Nikki Haley’s husband on the campaign trail

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is attacking both Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the age and questioning their mental capacity to govern. In one of her recent rallies, Nikki Haley called Donald Trump (77) as mentally deficient and Joe Biden (81) as too old to be President.

Joe Biden hit back at predecessor and Republican presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, over his mockery of fellow party candidate Nikki Haley's husband, saying that the latter thinks that the country's troops are 'suckers', adding that «this guy wouldn't know service to his country if it slapped him in the face.» Taking to his official X handle, President Biden posted, «The answer is that Major Haley is abroad, serving his country right now. We know he thinks our troops are „suckers,“ but this guy wouldn't know service to his country if it slapped him in the face.»

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White House hopeful Donald Trump said on Saturday he would «encourage» Russia to attack members of NATO who had not met their financial obligations, his most extreme broadside against the military alliance he has long expressed skepticism about. With US lawmakers debating new aid for Ukraine ahead of the second anniversary of Russia's invasion, the former president has repeatedly said it was unfair to commit the United States to defending NATO's 30 other member nations.

Donald Trump has mocked his Republican rival Nikki Haley over the absence of her husband, who is deployed overseas, drawing a sharp reaction from the Indian-American politician who said the person who disrespects military families has no business being commander-in-chief. Haley's husband Major Michael Haley, a commissioned officer with the South Carolina National Guard, is currently on a year-long deployment with the 218th Maneuver Enhancement Bridge, which is providing support in the Horn of Africa. He deployed in June. The war of words between two Republican presidential candidates started with a Trump rally on Saturday in South Carolina where the 77-year-old former president, seemingly unaware of his deployment, when started questioning his whereabouts

White House hopeful Donald Trump on Saturday celebrated the collapse of legislation targeting the migrant crisis on the US-Mexico border, while vowing that, if reelected, he would carry out a massive "deportation operation" on his first day in office. The death of the bipartisan bill in the US Senate this week highlights the ex-president's iron grip on the Republican Party, as he is keen to deny Biden a win on the hot topic of immigration.

questioning of whether the late Sen. John McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam, was a hero because Trump liked “people who weren’t captured." Throughout his political career, Trump has been accused of disregarding longstanding norms on avoiding attacking current or past servicemembers or people in a politician's family. Michael Haley began a yearlong stint in June with the South Carolina Army National Guard.

California voters who own cryptocurrencies are expected to have a significant impact on the 2024 elections.

Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen who are regularly attacking commercial ships passing through Red Sea waters off Yemen's coast. While the United States has thus far maintained an official line that Washington is not at war in the region, it has been retaliating against the Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria and carrying out strikes against Yemen's Houthi military capabilities.

drone attack on a base in Jordan killed three American troops and wounded more than 30 on Sunday, with President Joe Biden blaming Iran-backed militants and vowing to hold the perpetrators to account. It is the first time American military personnel have been killed by hostile fire in the Middle East since the war between Israel and Iran-backed Hamas began, and the incident will further raise tensions in the region and add to fears of a broader conflict directly involving Tehran. «While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq,» Biden said in a statement, pledging to hold «all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.» Later in the day at a South Carolina church banquet hall, the president held a moment of silence for the US troops killed in the attack, then said: «We shall respond.» Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called the attack «a message to the American administration that unless the killing of innocent people in Gaza stops, it may be faced with the entire (Muslim) nation.» «The continuation of the American-Zionist aggression on Gaza risks a regional explosion,» Abu Zuhri said. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Sunday evening that the attack had hit a logistics support base located at Tower 22, in northeast Jordan, and that it wounded at least 34 service members, eight of whom required evacuation from the country. There are around 350 US Army and Air Force personnel at the base who conduct «a number of key support functions,» including for the international coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group, CENTCOM said. Jordan's government spokesman Muhannad Mubaidin,

Joe Biden vowed retaliation, saying in a statement that “we will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner our choosing." The administration believes a stronger response is warranted than with previous attacks in which Americans were not killed, according to a person familiar with US deliberations. “We shall respond," Biden said later Sunday at a campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina.

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