Corporate megastores are spending millions lobbying DC politicians on one-sided policies that send small businesses tumbling.

They want to enact harmful credit card mandates that take resources away from your local credit union and community bank.

Leaving Main Street businesses with less access to credit, making it harder for your family to pay for everyday goods like gas and groceries.

Tell Congress to guard your card and oppose the Durban Marshall Credit Card mandates.

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Here's your midday brief for Friday, January 30th.

I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal.

A federal judge has ruled out the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing

a United Health Care executive in Midtown Manhattan in 2024.

She threw out a charge that was the basis for the Justice Department to seek a death sentence against Mangione.

Mangione still faces two federal stalking charges, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole.

He has pleaded not guilty.

Mangione also faces murder and weapons charges in New York State Court.

That's not a death penalty case.

Federal agents in Los Angeles

arrested former CNN journalist Don Lemon late last night over a protest against immigration

enforcement that disrupted a church service in Minnesota earlier this month. On social media

today, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Lemon and three others had been arrested at her direction.

Lemmon's arrest comes a week after a magistrate judge declined to sign off on a complaint

charging him. Lemmon says he was at the service as an independent journalist, not a participant.

His lawyer said the arrest was an attack on the First Amendment and that Lemon will fight the charges in court.

And Exxon Mobil and Chevron reported their smallest annual profits since 2021 today,

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