Kim Jong Un admits North Korea is facing ‘tense food situation’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has admitted his country is facing food shortages that he blamed on last year’s typhoon and floods, just months…
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Body cam shows rescue of woman trapped in burning home
Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (East Idaho News) — A woman in a wheelchair can be heard…
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Biden to sign bill making Juneteenth a national holiday as many federal workers to have Friday off
President Joe Biden is expected to sign a bill on Thursday establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US federal holiday…
Continue ReadingTop builder says the housing boom isn’t over just yet
Intense bidding wars and supply shortages for lumber and other building materials threaten to finally derail the housing market. But one top…
Continue ReadingDemocrats want JPMorgan to refund Covid-era overdraft fees — and scrap them forever
New York Democrats want JPMorgan Chase to return the overdraft fees the bank collected during the pandemic — and to scrap the hated charges…
Continue ReadingJPMorgan Chase buys robo-adviser Nutmeg ahead of UK banking launch
The biggest US bank is ramping up its plans to expand in the United Kingdom. JPMorgan Chase announced Thursday that it’s buying Nutmeg, the UK…
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Abrams signals openness to Manchin’s voting legislation proposals
Stacey Abrams on Thursday praised West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s proposed changes to voting rights legislation, a notable statement of…
Continue ReadingHouse votes to repeal Iraq War authorization
The House voted Thursday to repeal the 2002 legal authorization for the war in Iraq, marking what the bill’s backers hope is a first step to…
Continue ReadingParis Jackson to Willow Smith: ‘I feel like my dad would be proud’
Paris Jackson joined friend Willow Smith for Smith’s first “Red Table Talk Takeover” and we learned how incredibly similar the two…
Continue ReadingHong Kong police declare Apple Daily newsroom a crime scene as editors and executives arrested under national security law
Hong Kong police declared the Apple Daily newspaper office a crime scene Thursday, after 500 officers descended on the premises to arrest executives…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court dismisses challenge to Affordable Care Act, leaving it in place
The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act on Thursday in a decision that will leave the law intact and save health care…
Continue ReadingAnother service outage briefly broke the internet. It could happen again
For the second time in 10 days, a giant chunk of the internet briefly broke because of an outage at a company most people have probably never heard…
Continue ReadingDo you yearn for fulfillment? Reach for the ‘ordinary,’ author says
The pressure to stand out plagues us all. Even if we don’t really want that job, that body, that car, that trip or that kitchen, we’re…
Continue ReadingThe 1970s moon buggies are still up there. GM and Lockheed Martin want to make new ones
There are three 50-year-old cars parked on the moon. Now, General Motors and Lockheed Martin wants to build some new ones and put them on the moon,…
Continue ReadingCureVac shares drop 45% after disappointing Covid vaccine results
Shares in CureVac plummeted on Thursday after the German biotech company said that interim trial results showed its experimental Covid-19 vaccine was…
Continue ReadingMike Pompeo Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state and director of the CIA. Personal Birth date: December 30, 1963 Birth…
Continue ReadingBiden finds his comfort zone on the world stage in first international trip as president
Even Queen Elizabeth II wanted to know: What would President Joe Biden say to Vladimir Putin? “We had a long talk,” Biden said of his tea…
Continue ReadingGold loses its shine as Fed hints at rate hikes
The Federal Reserve surprised the market Wednesday with projections that future interest rate hikes will come a bit sooner than expected. Gold bugs…
Continue ReadingBiden brings up detained Americans Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed in meeting with Putin
US President Joe Biden said he had discussed the cases of two Americans detained in Russia during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Continue ReadingJobless claims unexpectedly rose last week
Claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week, marking the first increase in initial claims since late April. Another 412,000 workers…
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