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…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on a flight to the International Space Station Thursday carrying two NASA astronauts, a cosmonaut and a Canadian crew member whose wife plans a launch of her own later this year, giving birth to the couple’s third child while her husband is in space. Strapped into a SpaceX…
Merryl Hoffman knew she was taking good care of her heart. The 63-year-old attorney didn’t smoke or drink, and she was an avid hiker who used to run marathons and other distance races. In her 40s, she had been diagnosed with a leaky mitral valve and underwent surgery to repair it. Every year since, she…
