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New North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has already taken several actions to help the short- and long-term recovery from Hurricane Helene

Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” package averaged 13.22 million viewers, a 13% increase over last season

U.S. stock indexes slipped to start 2025

South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon has pleaded not guilty to a freshly unsealed indictment released in time for his first U.S. court appearance

Louisville punter Brady Hodges said he opted out of the Sun Bowl this week because the Cardinals’ NIL collective did not pay money promised to him in September

Aeromexico is the most on-time airline in the world, according to a data company that compiled figures for 2024

U.S. mortgage rates rose this week to the highest level since July

Tesla’s global annual sales fell for the first time in at least 9 years, with a 2.3% increase in the final quarter not enough to overcome a sluggish start to 2024

The number of Americans applying for unemployment checks dropped last week to the lowest level since March, suggesting that most workers enjoy unusual job security

Jenniffer González Colón has been sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island held for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over a blackout that hit the U.S. territory days ago

Opponents of a huge lithium mine under construction in Nevada want U.S. officials to investigate whether the project already has caused a drop in groundwater levels that could lead to extinction of a tiny snail

U.S. stock indexes are falling to start 2025

Pregnant New Yorkers will be entitled to at least 20 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments under a new law

"Dealers want to meet their sales targets and 0% financing is back."

Ukraine has halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network, almost three years into Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor

Homebuyers have faced high mortgage rates and soaring prices.

Ten states will offer a minimum wage of $15 an hour or higher.

Some experts predict the U.S. economy will remain strong in the new year despite a rocky end to 2024 on Wall Street.

A team of U.S. investigators including representatives from Boeing have examined the site of a plane crash that killed 179 people in South Korea

Moldovans are bracing for a difficult winter ahead as a looming energy shortage could leave them without enough energy

People in Zimbabwe are shunning traditional grocery stores to do their shopping at informal and illegal markets that pop up at night to avoid police raids rampant during the day

China has reported its factory activity expanded at a slower pace in December, despite recent stimulus measures and in the face of increasing trade risks

Madoff Victim Fund has paid more than $4 billion to nearly 41,000 victims.

Scammers are creating fake job postings, websites, and email accounts to try and steal your money and personal information.

A looming TikTok ban could affect the millions of small businesses that use the short-video social media app to grow their business

Earnings for companies within the S&P 500 are expected to have grown by about 9.4% in 2024, according to FactSet

All but two of the 181 people on board died in the Jeju Air plane crash.

Just over two years after the debut of ChatGPT, the world is getting a little savvier about what artificial intelligence technology can do for us and what it’s not so great at

South Korean officials plan to conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country’s airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a weekend plane crash that killed 179 people

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President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters

The discount chain Big Lots has reached a deal that will keep hundreds of its stores open

Italy’s parliament has approved the government’s 2025 budget, worth about 30 billion euros ($31 billion) in tax cuts and social security contributions for low-income citizens

If you’re planning on ringing in the new year quietly at home, you’re not alone

At least one Mega Millions player has plenty of dough to ring in the New Year after drawing the winning number

The high court is set to hear arguments Jan. 10.

Two top Canadian Cabinet ministers have met with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary at Mar-a-Lago as Canada tries to avoid sweeping tariffs when Trump takes office

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue

Trump asks Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban so he can weigh in after he takes office

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as January 14th, in a letter sent to congressiona...

Stocks closed lower as Wall Street ended a holiday-shortened week on a down note

In the thick of holiday travel, another unticketed passenger attempted to stow away on a Delta Air Lines flight

529 college savings plans are powerful tools to help pay for the mounting costs of an education

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect’s political movement into public display

One person is dead and two others have been hospitalized after an overnight fire at a Tyson Foods plant in Camilla, Georgia

A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of A...

The Labor Department issues its weekly tally of new unemployment benefit claims on Thursday

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose for the second week in a row to 6.85% — its highest level since mid-July.

2024 was another banner year for a source of electricity that is better for people’s lungs, better for climate change and may be reaching your home now when you turn on the lights or turn up the thermostat — large banks of batteries

High prices could scare off would-be investors, but momentum abounds.