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.

Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition.

Here's your morning brief for Thursday, February 26th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

The U.S. has deployed combat jets to Israel for a potential wartime mission ahead of today's high-stakes talks with Iran.

The move would allow the U.S. to defend Israeli territory and American forces should President Trump proceed with threatened strikes.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that no breakthrough is expected in today's talks and that the focus will be on Iran's nuclear program.

A new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association today finds that the rate of adults, age 18 to 54, who died in hospital of a severe first heart attack, rose 57%

between 2011 and 2022. Most of those who died were men, but women died at higher rates than men.

Poorer health among younger Americans is one reason heart disease remains the leading

cause of death in the United States, despite decades of medical advances.

And U.S. stock futures are little changed this morning even after Nvidia's blockbuster quarter.

Shares in the chipmaker have ticked up after CEO Jensen Wong rejected any suggestion of an AI bubble

after the company posted a more than 90% increase in profit following record sales for the fourth quarter.

Concerns about the sustainability of AI spending and the threat to a host of sectors, including

software, have rattled markets this month. Asian stocks ended the day mixed, and European stocks are

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