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...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
A cellular tower is seen on Feb. 22, 2024 in Redondo Beach, California. The outage affected tens of thousands of customers in cities across the country whose phones lost signal overnight.
An AT&T service outage impacted tens of thousands of customers on Feb. 22.
The company said it would automatically apply a $5 credit to the accounts...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is once again warning the stock market is doomed unless voters return him to the White House.
Trump is not just foretelling a market meltdown — something he, wrongly, forecast in 2020. The former president is predicting the mother of all market crashes if he isn’t victorious.
“If we lose, you’re gonna have a crash like...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The Department of Energy announced more than $350 million for rural renewable energy projects from the bipartisan infrastructure law funds Tuesday.
On a call with reporters, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the $366 million would be allocated across 17 projects in 20 states and 30 tribal nations. Twelve of the projects are on tribal lands, according to Granholm.
“These...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO
Synopsis
Helios Capital founder Samir Arora has said Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will either be fired or resign due to controversies surrounding Google's Gemini AI. Responding to social media inquiries, Arora criticized Pichai's handling of AI advancements. Gemini, Google's AI chatbot, faces scrutiny for alleged bias against PM Modi. India's Ministry of Electronics and Information...
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The relationship between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been one of intrigue and consequence from the start. What began with then-President Trump’s attempts to leverage Zelensky for political gain over Joe Biden in the 2020 election — the thing Trump was initially impeached for — has more recently involved candidate Trump’s efforts to kill...
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Donald Trump speaks during the Black Conservative Federation Gala on February 23, 2024 in Columbia, South Carolina. Prosecutors claim Trump tried to hide classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. - Sean Rayford/Getty Images
Former President Donald Trump tried to corrupt his own attorney into hiding classified documents, prosecutors alleged.
When the attorney refused, Trump got two of...
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
In a Saturday Nov. 12, 2011 photo, rows of old and newer telephones along with office switchboards are in the museum operated by members of the Parkersburg Council of the Telecomm Pioneers in Parkersburg, W.Va. As Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, cell phone outage shows, sometimes landline telephones can come in handy, and were suggested as part of...
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Americans’ tax refunds — and, for that matter, tax bills — this filing season are based on seven tax brackets, which determine where their top tax rate falls.
Tax brackets dictate how much you’ll pay on each part of your taxable income for the year. They’re not set in stone: Each year, the IRS adjusts the thresholds for...
