While many of the very poorest places in the country are remote towns with populations of just a few thousand, there are plenty of large American cities among the nation’s poorest places. These cities have often been devastated for decades by deindustrialization and job losses. In these places, incomes are […]

The latest relief bill allows an exclusion of $10,200 of unemployment benefits from income tax. Some people may have qualified for the tax break but filed their return before the law passed. The IRS is currently reviewing tax returns in phases and issuing refunds where necessary. Visit Personal Finance Insider […]

Stocks moved mostly higher during trading on Friday, extending the upward move seen in the previous session. With the continued advance, the Dow and the S&P 500 both ended the session at new record closing highs. The major averages all ended the day firmly in positive territory. The Dow rose […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance for fully vaccinated Americans, allowing them to go mask-free in outdoor and most indoor settings. The guidance, updated on Thursday, however, calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters. Announcing it […]

NEW YORK — Retail sales in the U.S. were flat in April after soaring in March, when many Americans received $1,400 stimulus checks that boosted spending. The report Friday from the U.S. Commerce Department was worse than the 0.8% rise Wall Street analysts had expected. But it wasn’t all bad: […]

Consultants who help lease these properties say this is the steepest decline at least in a decade. Mall rentals plunged 40 to 50 per cent in top cities in the first quarter of 2021 and could fall further, according to consultants who help lease these properties, with the second wave […]

Fifteen months after the global pandemic officially began, it’s still unclear how it originated – and a group of top American scientists is eager for answers. In a letter in the current issue of the journal Science, 18 infectious disease experts, immunologists and epidemiologists joined a global call for more information about the […]

A 41-year-old woman solicited Ohio State football players and engaged in sex with some of them after offering massages, the university revealed in a report issued Thursday afternoon. The northeast Ohio woman, whose name was redacted in the 15-page report, is a licensed massage therapist. She agreed on March 22 […]

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said the company’s day-and-date movie release strategy has boosted the fortunes of HBO Max but also helped movie theaters eager for new titles during their emergence from Covid-19. “I’d argue we’ve done more for theaters in 2021 than anyone else in Hollywood, by far,” Kilar declared […]

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind Chameleon: The Hollywood Con Queen, the breakout podcast series that unmasked the man behind one of the strangest entertainment-related grifts, has set its second season. Campside Media, the Sister-backed company that produces the show in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, is making Chameleon: High Rollers with […]