Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s top military planner, a Pentagon official told CBS News late Wednesday. Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia is the latest in a series of generals to be ousted. The firing comes even as President Trump is weighing renewed strikes on Iran in the eight-month-long war. Sylvia…
More than 75 million Americans will get a 3.6% boost to their monthly Social Security benefits next year, due to a cost-of-living adjustment announced Wednesday by the Social Security Administration. The 2027 cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, represents the largest annual boost for Social Security recipients in four years. The bigger increase is meant to keep…
Rising U.S. prices are squeezing household budgets, causing more Americans to fall behind on their debt payments, recent financial data shows. The share of seriously delinquent auto loan balances has hit a record high this year, while nearly 13% of credit card balances are seriously past due — close to their 2010 peak in the…
Jahir Rodríguez knew what was happening when he saw thick, dark clouds forming near his home in western Colombia on Monday morning. Parts of his dear Pereira were crumbling. The urban planner and former professor also knows what happens next after a powerful earthquake devastates whole communities. He sprang into action after a deadly 1999 quake…
