FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Question: I am 76 and a US citizen living overseas. I get $11,000 in Social Security and have liquid assets of $450,000. I estimate my life expectancy is about 15 more years. If a financial adviser would do a one-time consultation, what it would cost and what issues should I consider?
Answer: Pros say it probably doesn’t hurt...
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Clues have emerged that reveal a much hotter history than we thought. - Surasak Suwanmake - Getty Images
The Paris Climate Accords in 2015 set an ambitious (and necessary) goal of keeping global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temps. But a new study says we might’ve blown past that threshold several years ago.
A new...
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
In a combination of pictures created on Oct. 22, 2020, the GOP's Donald Trump, left, and Democratic candidate Joe Biden during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Your choices, America, are as follows: Either you vote for “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” (words of the recent special counsel report on...
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Pakistan's Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, center, addresses supporters next to his brother Shehbaz Sharif, right, and daughter Maryam Nawaz following initial results of the country's parliamentary election, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. Sharif is changing tack and said on Friday that he will seek to form a coalition government after his party trailed the...
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
“But if you take a look at my words right after, you take a look at my speech from the Rose Garden, which was very shortly after. … If you take a look at those five or six tweets, you will see very beautiful, very heartwarming statements. ‘Go home, the police are doing their job, etc., etc.’...
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
President Donald Trump listens during an event on Operation Warp Speed in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
CNN’s fact check reporter Daniel Dale on Thursday thoroughly debunked one of Donald Trump’s latest wild claims, slamming it as “completely bonkers nonsense” and “insane.”
Trump earlier in the day falsely claimed to...
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
New Delhi, INDIA - NCP MP Supriya Sule on Friday alleged that apps like Google Pay and Phone Pe are "two ticking time bombs" and sought to know what steps the government is taking to check money laundering.
Participating in a discussion on 'The White Paper on Indian economy' in Lok Sabha, Sule said whatever happened in...
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Xi’s economic intervention will produce short-term market optimism over the Spring Festival – and little else - ALEX PLAVEVSKI/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock/Shutterstock
China’s Spring Festival has huge demographic and political significance.
It’s the last surviving relic of a past world, where extended families gathered at their home villages to share respectful greetings to the old, wishes for prosperity (“Gong xi fa cai”...
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 03, 2022 the US Supreme Court building stands in Washington, DC. - Former US president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on October 4, 2022 to intervene in the legal tussle over classified documents seized in the FBI raid of his Florida home. Trump urged the conservative-dominated court to...
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
King Charles with Camilla. The pair flew to Sandringham on Tuesday where the King is resting.
King Charles has issued his first public statement following his cancer diagnosis.
The 75-year-old monarch revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer on Monday, before flying with Queen Camilla to Sandringham, where he is resting following the start of treatment.
On Wednesday night,...
