Retirees can expect to see some big changes in 2025 when it comes to their Social Security and Medicare benefits. President Joe Biden is expected to sign a bill that will increase Social Security benefits for certain pensioners. Additionally, the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment goes into effect for all beneficiaries. And Medicare enrollees who are worried about health-care costs now...
Around 60 million people are under weather alerts from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic as a winter storm threatens to slam the region with heavy snow and crippling ice. The developing low pressure system is forecast to affect the regions for the next three days, and includes cities such as Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Kansas City,...
LONDON — The royal family paid tribute Saturday to the British man killed in the New Orleans truck-ramming attack, a 31-year-old who was the stepson of Prince William and Prince Harry’s former nanny. Edward Pettifer was among 14 people killed when an ISIS-inspired U.S. Army veteran drove his truck into a crowd of revelers on...
TOKYO — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on Dec. 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan. Itooka, who...
Israel faced mounting pressure Saturday over its detention of a Gaza hospital chief during a raid on one of the last functioning medical facilities in the battered north of the Palestinian enclave. Israel has in recent days confirmed it is holding Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and defended its assault that shut down Kamal Adwan Hospital,...
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Hollywood awards season officially kicks off Sunday with the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, a looser alternative to the Oscars that recognizes achievement in both film and television. Here’s a look at what to expect from a show that bills itself as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year.” How to watch The Globes will take place at...
The Summary A report from the U.S. surgeon general suggested that labels on alcoholic drinks should warn about cancer risk. Doctors expressed their agreement. For people wondering about the long-term damage of drinking and whether there is any safe limit, here is what experts think you should know. Doctors on Friday applauded a new report...
WASHINGTON — Back in his first term, Donald Trump was talking to a senior White House aide, Steve Bannon, about potential films to show in the building’s movie theater. Bannon suggested Ken Burns’ classic documentary on the Civil War, thinking it would be instructive to see how an earlier president, Abraham Lincoln, struggled to find...
The driver who killed 14 people in an ISIS-inspired attack by plowing into a crowded New Orleans street on New Year’s Day had planned to use a transmitter to detonate two explosive devices he had placed nearby, authorities have said. The FBI and ATF said in a joint statement Friday that the explosives were placed...