California Fires Cause Human Misery But Exact Economic Toll on Residents and the Insurance...
The series of fires raging across neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles is a humanitarian nightmare with a death toll in the double digits and thousands of homes destroyed.
But it is also likely...
Trump Defiant After Receiving Sentence, But No Penalty, for Criminal Conviction
Protestors of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gather outside New York Criminal Court in Manhattan on the day of a sentencing hearing in a criminal case where he was convicted in 2024...
Breathe Easy: 5 Traditional Ways to Ease Sinus Congestion
As a child growing up in Germany, whenever I fell ill, my mother would employ all sorts of household remedies used for generations in our family. It was not unusual to...
Wildfires and Climate Policies Driving Up California’s Electricity Rates
Not only are electricity rates in California among the highest in the nation, they’re also growing faster than in other states, according to a Jan. 7 report from the state’s Legislative...
US Has Highest Rate of Overdose Deaths in the World: Commonwealth Fund Report
The United States has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the world by a substantial margin, according to a Jan. 9 report by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund.
It ranked last on...
LA Officials Investigating Emergency Evacuation Alerts Sent in Error
Los Angeles County’s emergency officials are investigating why an evacuation alert system has been sending out alerts to residents across the region in error.
The evacuation alert system is not being activated...
California Imposes 1-Year Insurance Cancellation Freeze in Areas Ravaged by Wildfires
Los Angeles and surrounding wildfire-hit regions are shielded by a new one-year moratorium on insurance non-renewals, according to California’s insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, who announced the year-long freeze on Jan. 9.
“I...
US Employers Prefer Older Candidates to New Graduates for Jobs
In the not-so-distant past, U.S. employers looking to hire new graduates simply turned away most of them because there were usually too many applicants for too few job openings.
Now, not only...
US Withholds $3.6 Million Payment to World Anti-Doping Agency Amid Chinese Doping Scandal
The U.S. government has withheld its 2024 due funding for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the global doping watchdog confirmed on Jan. 9, after months of tensions over the agency’s handling...
JCPenney and SPARC Merge in Bet to Revive Iconic Brands and Stores
Business Column: Analysis
JCPenney and SPARC Group are merging into a new organization in a bet to revive more than a dozen iconic brands and more than 1,000 store locations. Experts are...
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US and UK Issue Sweeping Sanctions on Russian Oil, LNG
The United States and the UK are unveiling a sanctions regime against Russia to increase the cost of the Eurasian power’s war in Ukraine.
The...
