Hurricane Delta landed as a Category 2 storm After Hurricane Delta ripped through Louisiana on Friday, residents, having waited out the storm elsewhere, returned on Sunday to survey damage to their homes. Delta made landfall near the town of Creole on Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane, packing sustained winds of 100 miles per […]
Amy Ford claims she shot the woman in self-defense Amy Ford, a West Virginia nurse who spoke at this year’s Republican National Convention, was arrested on Saturday after shooting a woman in the stomach in her hometown. Ford, 39, who was identified as Amy Thorn in the court filing, was charged with malicious or unlawful […]
Protesters burn a police flag in front of law enforcement officers during dueling rallies between right and left-wing groups in Denver, Colorado, on October 10, 2020. Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images A private security guard from a local television station is in custody after he shot and killed another man during […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE We may be retrenching to the stock market-economy disconnect of the spring, and some analysts think something’s gotta give. See full story. I’m 63, my husband is 70, we’ll have $90,000 a year in retirement — how can we claim our Social Security benefits? Have a question about retirement, including where to […]
So you think you’re financially astute? Then try taking the following financial literacy test containing just three basic questions about interest rates, inflation and diversification. Despite being quite elementary, only 34% of adults aged 38 to 64 are able to answer all three correctly. Among millennials this percentage is just 16%. Those results are sobering […]
Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection To manage our money better, often we don’t need to know more. Instead, we need to unlearn what we think we already know. Here are just some of the things that, at various points in my 35-year investing career, I’ve thought I’ve known: Which fund managers will outperform. Which way the economy […]
A composite image of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and President Vladimir Putin. MLADEN ANTONOV,TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images The UK, France, and Germany this week pledged to sanction Russia over the August 20 poisoning of Alexei Navalny, a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin. The sanctions will target “individuals deemed responsible” and “an entity […]
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President Trump is planning to hold his first in-person event since being treated for COVID-19, with a gathering on Saturday at the White House and a campaign rally as soon as Monday in Florida, according to White House officials and campaign aides. Trump was scheduled to deliver remarks on Saturday at 2 p.m. from the […]
Bar in the city center of Manchester, northwest England. AFP via Getty Images The pace of the economic rebound in Europe slowed down significantly in August, according to latest gross domestic product and industrial production figures. And the number of COVID-19 infections keep rising in most countries, prompting fears about the impact of future, tougher […]