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Newly-installed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that when it comes to interest rates, he and the president are less worried about what the Federal Rese...

From the BBC World Service : The U.S. Postal Service has stopped accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong, just as new tariffs from President Donald Trump ...

According to the PCE price index — a measure of inflation out Friday morning from the Bureau of Economic Analysis — prices in December rose three-tenths of 1...

Fires in Southern California this month destroyed at least 16,000 structures. More than 9,000 of them were lost in and around Altadena — and they included th...

From the BBC World Service: The Indian finance minister is set to unveil the country’s annual budget on Saturday, but keeping India’s rapid growth on track w...

President Trump says he’s still planning to impose import taxes on goods from Canada and Mexico starting tomorrow. In the past he’s floated a rate of 25%, bu...

The average American tax filer spends more than $200 on tax prep each year, often through tax softwares like TurboTax, H&R Block or TaxSlayer. But the IRS ha...

A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy sources. Saudi Arabia and China have also been investing in greener ene...

From the BBC World Service: The British government announced that London’s Heathrow Airport will get a third runway. Chancellor Rachel Reeves says it’ll make...

From the BBC World Service: A lower-cost artificial intelligence chatbot from a Chinese start-up is fueling a second day of global tech stock sell-offs as in...

With dangerously high winds back in the forecast for Southern California today, an estimated 12,000 structures — many of them homes — have already been destr...

Catastrophe bonds — financial instruments issued by insurance, reinsurance firms and sometimes government to help cover losses in a disaster — keep insurance...

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump launched meme coins of themselves just before the inauguration, which have made them billions — at least ...

From the BBC World Service: Many hope that by increasing interest rates to 0.5%, the Bank of Japan might help spur growth for the world’s fourth-largest econ...

Sadly, we’re not talking about hot air balloons or superheroes. Today, we’re talking about home prices, which went up in every major metro area around the co...

California officials and insurance representatives are holding workshops starting this weekend to help people deal with their insurance companies amid the fi...

From the BBC World Service: As President Donald Trump begins his second term in office, he’s been talking tariffs — but for not for China, as many expected. ...

“We already felt like we’re being priced out,” said Claire Contreras, a teacher who lost her Altadena apartment to a fire. “All of this just kind of puts a b...

From a new so-called Department of Government Efficiency to an incoming Republican Congress, deep cuts to the federal government are promised this year. Amon...

California officials and insurance representatives are holding workshops starting this weekend to help people deal with their insurance companies amid the fi...