This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. You expect your car insurance rates to increase after you buy a new vehicle, cause a crash or add a young driver to your policy. But some insurers jack up prices based on seemingly unrelated data — like your magazine subscriptions or what groceries you buy. Even […]
WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the onetime administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was once a potent symbol of corruption within the Trump administration, as well as of its push to roll back environmental protections. With his penchant for first-class flights and other reported excesses — including, most infamously, an ill-fated search for a used mattress […]
ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. — Sen. Bernie Sanders took aim at former Vice President Joe Biden, his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, at a rally here, as Super Tuesday results trickled in from across the country. Sanders did not utter Biden’s name, but the senator predicted that he would win the nomination and defeat […]
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii speaks to Democrats gathered at the Spratt Issues Conference in Greenville, S.C., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) Associated Press Under the most recent rules, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii may have qualified for the next televised debate by snagging a delegate in American Samoa’s primary. […]
Investors were disappointed with the Federal Reserve’s surprise interest-rate cut Tuesday, reversing the previous day’s massive rally to send U.S. stocks down sharply. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.94% shed 786 points (or 2.9%) to close at 25,917.41. The S&P 500 Index SPX, -2.81% fell 2.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -2.99% fared […]
Travelers are changing their flight plans in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, and many airlines are helping them in the process. In recent weeks, airlines have cancelled hundreds of flights to East Asia and, more recently, northern Italy as the number of coronavirus cases grew in those regions. As of Monday, there were 89,254 […]
The stock market tumbled Tuesday, with investors apparently rattled rather than comforted by the Federal Reserve’s decision to deliver a rare, emergency rate cut aimed at shielding the economy from disruptions caused by the global spread of COVID-19. Read: Fed cuts interest rates by half percentage point in rare intermeeting move “I think the Fed’s […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shares fell 3% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the technology giant reported first-quarter revenue that did not meet Wall Street estimates. HPE HPE, -2.33% reported net income of $333 million, or 25 cents a share, in the quarter, compared with net income of $177 million, or 13 cents a share, in […]
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SEATTLE (AP) — Tensions over how to contain the coronavirus escalated Tuesday in the United States as the death toll climbed to nine and lawmakers expressed doubts about the government’s ability to ramp up testing fast enough to deal with the crisis. All of the deaths have occurred in Washington state, and most were residents […]