Ardo The U.S. economy tapered off toward the end of 2019, but a record expansion is still alive and well. The numbers: The U.S. economy grew slightly faster than 2% in the final three months of 2019, aided by a temporary plunge in imports and a resurgent housing market. The modest rate of growth likely […]
Two months into the epidemic, the coronavirus has not proven to be as deadly as the SARS virus. That, however, may also help explain why it’s spreading so quickly. It has an incubation period of up to two weeks, which enables the virus to spread through person-to-person contact. The coronavirus, a highly contagious, pneumonia-causing illness […]
Getty Images/iStockphoto A judge said the Wisconsin couple, not pictured, is entitled to a $7,386 refund, plus interest. The Internal Revenue Service is giving a Wisconsin couple their long-sought $7,386 refund — plus seven years of interest — after government lawyers admitted they overlooked 20-year-old points of law about when a tax return is technically […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Senate could vote to remove President Trump from office, and still give his supporters an opportunity to vote for him in November. President Donald Trump’s lawyers are trying out a rather nervy approach in the impeachment trial before the U.S Senate. After Trump leveraged taxpayer dollars in an effort to pressure […]
The mayor of a New Jersey town admitted that he had “too much to drink” when he took off his trousers and crawled into an employee’s bed at a party. Mahwah mayor John Roth told NorthJersey.com that he “did go upstairs to bed” and apologised for his drunken behaviour at staff party after a letter […]
1 / 3 Afghanistan Plane Crash A wreckage of a U.S. military aircraft that crashed in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, is seen Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. The aircraft crashed in Ghazni province on Monday, A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, an American official said, adding that there were no indications so far […]
‘Journalists don’t sit down with senior government officials in the service of scoring political points. We do it in the service of asking tough questions, on behalf of our fellow citizens. And then sharing the answers — or lack thereof — with the world.’ That is NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly explaining her side of […]
Bloomberg Chairman Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve and his fellow board members don’t plan to raise or lower U.S. interest rates anytime soon. Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December indicates that the labor market remains strong and that economic activity has been rising at a moderate rate. Job gains […]
Housing may be the key to bigger savings. Earlier this week, a Reddit post — from a 48-year-old woman claiming to be a millionaire despite having only low-paying jobs until about age 30 — went viral, and in it she details some extreme frugality. She says she saves tea bags so she can make multiple […]
If the current infection rate continues, the coronavirus will exceed the number of total worldwide cases of SARS. The coronavirus, a highly contagious, pneumonia-causing illness that infects the respiratory tract, is now responsible for 132 deaths in China as of Wednesday and 6,132 infections worldwide, with the number of cases tripling since the weekend, health […]