Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz has financial ties to at least two pharmaceutical companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that he has floated as a possibl...
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New York ends mask mandate for subways, buses and other mass transit
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) logo is displayed on the side of a subway train in Manhattan, New York on June 2, 2021. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images New Yorkers are no longer required t...
Saudi Arabia, GCC demand Netflix remove content that ‘violates Islamic values’
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Saudi Arabia and five other Gulf Arab countries issued a joint statement demanding that Netflix remove content they say “violates Islamic and societal va...
California avoids widespread rolling blackouts as heat strains grid
A temperature sign at an El Dorado Savings Bank during a heatwave in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images California has avoided ordering rol...
Justin Sun is Showing Up Everywhere – from Crypto to Politics & Beyond
Advertisement     The 32-year-old creator, a self-made billionaire, founded the TRON blockchain and has acquired traditional and NFT works of art totalling more than $...
People who recently caught Covid can wait to get omicron booster, health official says
People walk by a Covid-19 testing site at Times Square on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images People who recently caught Covid can wait a few months to get a ne...
Trump SPAC adjourns shareholder meeting as it seeks to delay merger deadline
The former US President announced his intention to create a new social media platform after he was banned from Facebook and Twitter last year. Leon Neal | Getty Images Digital World Acquisition Corp. ...
Crypto Exec Bankman-Fried Spends Big on Politics
Sam Bankman-Fried – crypto billionaire and head executive of FTX, one of the largest (and newest) digital currency platforms in the world – is spending millions of dollars on this year’s midterm elect...
Labor Day air travel clears 2019 levels as airlines cap a rocky summer
Reagan National Airport near Washington D.C. Leslie Josephs | CNBC The rocky summer travel season ended on a high note during Labor Day weekend with a surge in air travelers and relatively smooth oper...
The UK’s new prime minister could be about to shake up the City of London
People across the U.K.’s financial sector are wondering whether the new prime minister will change the regulatory landscape. Jeff J Mitchell / Staff / Getty Images As Liz Truss becomes Britain&#...
France says imposing a price cap on Russian oil will be difficult
France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire speaks on July 25, 2022 at the Finance ministry in Berlin, Germany. David Gannon | Afp | Getty Images French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Satu...
Citigroup Joins Industry Effort to Lend to People Without Credit Scores
Citigroup is joining a government-sponsored effort to expand access to credit in underserved communities. The bank is launching two pilot programs early next year under the Office of the Comptroller o...
Europe Girds for Energy Market Turbulence After Russian Gas Cut
Listen to article (2 minutes) Governments in Sweden and Finland offered billions of dollars of guarantees to utilities to prevent a meltdown in energy trading when markets open Monday after Russia shu...
Germany Agrees on Gas Relief Package for Businesses, Consumers
BERLIN—Germany unveiled its third energy crisis relief package this year to shield consumers from soaring prices over the winter, a day after Russia indefinitely suspended gas deliveries to Europe’s l...
Compounding a disastrous year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency: IRS proposes controversial new question about digital assets
The Internal Revenue Service could have a potential head-scratcher of a question about your crypto investments and what’s taxable, according to a major accountants’ association. For two years, the IRS...
Wells Fargo Fined $22 Million for Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation
Wells Fargo & Co. was fined more than $22 million by the U.S. Labor Department for allegedly firing a senior manager in its commercial banking unit after the employee reported concerns about misco...
IRS Says It Exposed Some Confidential Taxpayer Data on Website
WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is normally confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals before discovering the error and removing the data from its w...
When to claim climate tax breaks, rebates
Sebastian Rothe / Eyeem | Eyeem | Getty Images Households may soon be able to claim thousands of dollars in tax breaks and rebates if they take steps to reduce their carbon footprint. But eco-friendly...
How ‘quiet quitting’ became the next phase of the Great Resignation
“Quiet quitting” is having a moment. The trend of employees choosing to not go above and beyond their jobs in ways that include refusing to answer emails during evenings or weekends, or sk...
Fox News personalities face questioning as Dominion lawsuit moves forward
A person walks past Fox News Headquarters at the News Corporation building on May 03, 2022 in New York City. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Next week, Maria Bartiromo will join the parade of Fox perso...
August jobs report shows declining participation among Black workers
Commuters arrive at Grand Central station during morning rush hour in New York, Nov. 18, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images The August jobs report showed the U.S. unemployment rate rise acro...
Here’s where the jobs are for August 2022 — in one chart
The U.S. economy added another 315,000 payrolls in August, with jobs growth slowing overall but still widespread throughout the economy. The economy saw growth in all the key sectors and subsectors in...
Celebrity Medicare Sales Pitches Are Toned Down After Scrutiny
If it’s football season, you can count on seeing Joe Namath on television, along with William Shatner and Jimmie “J J” Walker. They are the most prominent pitchmen for what has become an annual fall s...
CDC panel recommends new omicron Covid boosters with shots expected to begin next week
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent committee on vaccines recommended reformulated booster shots that target the latest omicron subvariant...
These states may tax federal student loan forgiveness
dmphoto | E+ | Getty Images There’s good news if you’re eligible for student loan forgiveness: It won’t trigger a federal tax bill. And while some may still owe state taxes, it may b...
U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths
People walk past a COVID-19 walk up testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images Fall is on the horizon and public health officials are again bracing fo...
Nvidia’s ‘China Syndrome’: Is the stock melting down?
Like the nuclear reactor in the 1979 film “The China Syndrome,” Nvidia Corp.’s share price and sales forecast have been melting down, and a sales ban of artificial-intelligence chips to China is the l...