Corporate America is parting with its CEO president — carefully. Four years after Donald Trump swept into the White House, cowing executives and shaking markets with tweet storms and tantrums, corporations that applauded when he cut taxes and red tape are struggling to come to grips with the havoc that’s […]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti made a staggering comparison on Thursday. The mayor said that the near-record number of 259 daily Covid-19 deaths in L.A. County on Tuesday was “more than all the homicides in 2019 in L.A. City combined.” That’s stunning data especially for those who, early in the […]

Following Wednesday's violence on Capitol Hill, Goldman Sachs asked small-business owners not to wear "Storm the Hill" T-shirts it had mailed them for an unrelated event, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Goldman is sponsoring a virtual event, planned for January 13, to encourage small-business owners to pressure lawmakers to […]

Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air-defense identification zone on 91 days from January to November, according to a Taipei-based think tank. Analysts say Beijing's strategy is more about sending a message to the US and the world than it is an attempt to wear down the Taiwanese military and […]

Blizzards across the eastern two-thirds of the United States have steadily increased in frequency over the last century. Due to accelerating changes to the climate, including rising ocean surface temperatures (which leads to more moisture in the air), reduction in Arctic sea ice (which can affect the jet stream), as […]

New York (CNN)American gun manufacturers saw their stock prices surge Wednesday afternoon as a group of Trump supporters stormed into the US Capitol building in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Shares of Smith & Wesson Brands, Sturm, Ruger & Co (RGR). and Vista Outdoors […]

The Office, which now streams exclusively on NBCUniversal’s Peacock, gained momentum in its final days on Netflix, according to the latest U.S. streaming numbers from Nielsen. The sitcom finished No. 1 for the period of December 7 to 13, with more than 1.2 billion minutes of streaming. It was the […]

High-flying Tesla shares have nudged founder and CEO Elon Musk to world’s top billionaire, past Amazon’s Jeff Bezos who had been the world’s richest human since 2017. Tesla’s uptick has boosted Musk’s wealth to about $190 billion, passing Bezos’ $187 billion, according to Bloomberg. Its Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which tracks […]

Permanent life insurance never expires, and it accrues a cash value over time in addition to offering a death benefit. Term life insurance lasts for a specified timeframe, and there's no cash value, but it's cheaper than a permanent life policy. There are several types of permanent life insurance, and […]

LISTEN TO ARTICLE SHARE THIS ARTICLE During World War II, the U.S. Army attempted to weed out soldiers who were suspected of being communists because they had fought against the fascist forces of Spain’s Francisco Franco in the 1930s.  Some of those soldiers, then and later, jokingly described themselves as “premature […]