MARCH 14, 2024
Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig issued a searing rebuke of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, preserving his ability to seek a second term.
In a piece published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S....
MARCH 14, 2024
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell prepares to testify before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on March, 7 2024.
The U.S. Federal Reserve will likely cut interest rates by a cumulative 0.75 percentage points to 1 point in 2024, investment strategists said Wednesday.
The Fed will likely achieve a so-called "soft landing" as it navigates...
MARCH 12, 2024
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Rochester, New Hampshire on January 21, 2024 .
Former President Donald Trump took aim at President Joe Biden over inflation during a call-in appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Monday.
"People are going through hell," due to rising prices, Trump said, with energy and food costs...
MARCH 12, 2024
A decade on from the MH370 aviation mystery, a British Boeing 777 pilot has claimed that the flight’s take-off documents are clues that the pilot pre-meditated a mass murder-suicide.
Simon Hardy believes that the Malaysian Airlines flight plan and technical log reveal last-minute changes to the cargo including an additional 3,000kg of fuel and extra oxygen that indicate...
MARCH 11, 2024
The Indian Navy’s aircraft carriers, the Russian-origin INS Vikramaditya and the indigenous INS Vikrant, were on display during the first week of March as part of the Navy's Commanders' Conference as per images by the Ministry of Defense on March 9, 2024. India demonstrated its two aircraft carriers operating together amid a complex geopolitical environment in the...
MARCH 7, 2024
Grace Lucchese and Mickey Ricard scored a low mortgage interest rate for the house outside Boston they bought in January. Courtesy of Grace Lucchese
Grace Lucchese and Mickey Ricard bought a home with a 2.6% interest rate via an assumable mortgage.
The lower mortgage rate is saving the couple more than $2,000 each month.
The couple said...
MARCH 6, 2024
OpenAI, in a bristling response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company, accused the billionaire of rewriting history, publishing a blog post with old emails allegedly showing that the billionaire lobbied for control over the start-up and attempted to merge it with Tesla, his car company.
Musk sued OpenAI last week in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging the...
MARCH 5, 2024
Facebook, Instagram and Messenger have gone down in what appears to be a huge outage at parent company Meta.
Users found themselves unable to load the apps or websites as normal. On Facebook, affected users found they had been logged out and were unable to get on, while Instagram refused to work at all.
The warnings about being logged...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
A Social Security spousal rule that has been around for decades officially ends this year for everyone except those who turned 70 on Jan. 1, 2024. The rule allows recipients to switch between their benefits and their spouse’s to receive the maximum amount. But unless you were born before Jan. 1, 1954, you won’t be able to...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sold $1.2 billion in stock past four months. - LUDOVIC MARIN-AFP via Getty Images
High-profile CEOs, founders, and heirs are selling stock by the bucketload in the companies that made them billionaires. For nearly the entire bunch, shares prices are trading near all-time-highs.
Jeff Bezos sold Amazon shares worth $8.5 billion in multiple transactions...
