A hotter-than-expected inflation report has sharply raised the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates in September, which would mark its first rate hike since 2023. The Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of 3.4% in August, in line with July’s reading but higher than the 3.3% economists were forecasting. One-third…
More than 75 million Americans rely on Social Security checks each month to help them get by. But sometimes recipients get a financially painful surprise: a notice from the Social Security Administration that their retirement or disability benefits were overpaid — often by thousands of dollars — and that they need to repay the money….
Retirement is biting Generation X. Its oldest members will turn 62 next year, the earliest age at which people can claim Social Security benefits, with many Americans having too little saved to stop working even as the program faces its own funding crisis. Chris Branaman, 53, jokes that his retirement will be spent as a…
Washington — The Pentagon has formally acknowledged that U.S. military operations killed more than 150 innocent civilians and injured over 240 people in 2025, with three airstrikes in Yemen accounting for every casualty the department confirmed. The newly released tally, which did not include any deaths from airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and…
Five family members who had set out for a day of hiking were killed after a flash flood swept through canyons of southern Utah on Friday, law enforcement officials said. The victims were a captain in the Provo, Utah, fire department, his wife and their sons, according to fire officials. A daughter who was not…
