There is a quiet anxiety running beneath the surface of American financial markets right now, one that the cheerful headlines about falling oil prices have done little to dispel. While consumers welcome relief at the pump and equity traders celebrate…
What just happened in Maryland? On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a seven-page letter to Maryland’s state Elections Administrator, Jared DeMarinis, threatening him with criminal charges including criminal conspiracy and civil rights violations. The letter, signed by Harmeet…
Senior US military commanders knowingly bypassed warnings that intelligence on Iranian targets was severely out of date, approving strikes — including one that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers at an elementary school — in a rush to…
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a group of western Michigan businesses and individuals who were convicted of systematically disabling emissions controls on hundreds of semi-trucks — framing a straightforward environmental enforcement case as political persecution by the Biden administration.…
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long regarded as the backbone of American public health infrastructure, is facing what former insiders describe as a systematic erosion of its scientific mission under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Dr. Debra…
America broke its promise to Gen Z. The question now is whether that betrayal has hardened into something that no economic recovery can easily undo. Last year, the “Gen Z stare” became a cultural shorthand — a label for the…
Nearly four decades after signing a consent decree with the state of Michigan, chemical manufacturing giant BASF is still struggling to contain contaminated groundwater at its 230-acre Wyandotte plant — and the remediation plan it has now put forward may…
Bruce Springsteen has a clear definition of what it means to love your country. It starts with telling the truth about it. Speaking in his recent PBS special, Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song, the rock icon laid out a…
HUNT, Texas — As the United States marked its 250th anniversary with fireworks and parades on Friday, the small Hill Country community of Hunt, Texas, and its surrounding towns observed a far more somber occasion: the first anniversary of catastrophic…
For decades, the standard advice handed to prospective homebuyers was simple: save aggressively, put 20% down, and avoid the added cost of private mortgage insurance. It was a rule built for a different era — one in which wages tracked…