A woman and two children are dead following a Christmas Day incident at a Northeastern University parking garage in Boston, CBS Boston reports. Police responded just before 1:30 p.m. to the Renaissance Park Garage, where they found the three unconscious. They were pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. “At this point, this is a death […]
President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier this week upheld what has become a conservative tradition: attacking billionaire philanthropist George Soros. “Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” Giuliani, a Roman Catholic, said in an interview with New York magazine that quickly went viral. “Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros […]
Baltimore may see the highest homicide rate ever recorded in the city by the end of 2019, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Police had recorded 338 homicides as of Tuesday, four shy of the 342 seen in 2017 and 2015. The city saw 353 homicides in 1993, the most of any year on record. […]
“The 360” shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories. What’s happening The winter holidays are one of the most hectic times for air travel. Large crowds, cranky kids and icy weather can turn a simple trip into a nerve-rattling mess. In recent years a new concern has been added to this list of […]
Telsa Inc. shares continued their record-breaking run on Thursday, after a bullish analyst report said recent data from Europe and China suggest the electric-car maker may be on the cusp of a new period of growth and profitability. Shares TSLA, +1.65% were up about 1% and were flirting with the $430 level in early trade, […]
Getty Images Amazon, which is known for convenient delivery, is now making returns more convenient United Parcel Service Inc. said Thursday that it forecasts a record National Returns Day, with 1.9 million returns expected, up 26% from last year. National Returns Day is on Jan. 2, 2020. This will be the seventh consecutive record National […]
Interest rates on home loans by and large remained unchanged over this last week and will close out 2019 much lower than they were at the year’s beginning. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.74% during the week ending Dec. 26, up one basis point from the previous week, Freddie Mac FMCC, +1.33% reported Thursday. Similarly, […]
Dear Moneyist, I am a retired registered nurse and my husband is retired also for three years now. We live in a rural California county where social activities are not frequent. Instead, we attend many fundraising events for fun and we also like to contribute. We end up with baskets and all sorts of gift […]
U.S. stocks inched higher Thursday morning, with markets expected to face thin holiday trading volumes in the first session after Christmas as a number of global markets remained closed. Check out: Here are the markets closed for Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year holidays How are benchmarks performing? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.23% […]
GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinians in Gaza will scale back protests along the fortified border with Israel, factions in the strip said on Thursday, in a sign of a lasting detente between Israel and Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas along the volatile frontier. For nearly 20 months, Palestinians have held weekly demonstrations dubbed the “Great March of […]