Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

Infliction is killing me!

But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!

That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!

See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?

Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.

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Republicans begin the scramble to replace Senator Lindsay Graham following his sudden death.

Plus company expectations are sky high for this earning season, but can it last. We're past the AI hype. Now we want some sort of proof that there are returns on these investments.

And shares in S.K. Hynix suffer their steepest drop ever. It's Monday, July 13th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal, filling in for Luke Vargas.

And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines, and business stories moving your world today.

Republicans are expected to move quickly to fill the seat of late Senator Lindsey Graham,

the longtime South Carolina lawmaker who died late on Saturday fill the seat of late Senator Lindsey Graham, the longtime South Carolina

lawmaker who died late on Saturday at the age of 71. Preliminary findings by the District of

Columbia Medical Examiner show that Senator Graham died of an aortic terror caused by cardiovascular

disease. He had been in Kiev on Friday to meet with Ukrainian Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before returning

home to Washington.

I've never been more optimistic than I am today, that we have the formula to end this war.

Help Ukraine be more lethal. Let those supporting Russia to know it's going to be a price to be paid if you keep doing it.

He said, I'm tired because it's a long trip. But other than that, he was fine.

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