“This is the kind of fire we can’t fight head-on,” Pelle said. “We actually had deputy sheriffs and firefighters in areas that had to pull…
Altogether, 1.7 million Americans were collecting traditional unemployment aid the week that ended Dec. 18. That was the lowest since March 2020, just as the…
Holiday sales were up 10.7% compared with the pre-pandemic 2019 holiday period. By category, clothing rose 47%, jewelry 32%, electronics 16%. Online sales were up…
‘The grid is in need of complete replacement’ PREPA, which regularly put off grid maintenance because of financial shortfalls, will have a major voice in…
“There’s a new era, a new commitment, and we have people who absolutely are going to be at the front of the line in terms…
“We have no choice but to forge a path forward. The planet is warming and we are already experiencing violently weird weather all the time,”…
“The substantial growth in health care spending was … driven by the unprecedented government response to the global pandemic,” Micah Hartman, a statistician in the…
Now, the Fed plans to cease its bond buys entirely by March, rather than its earlier target of June to give itself room to begin…
In Kentucky alone, 22 were confirmed dead by Saturday afternoon. But Beshear said upwards of 70 may have been killed when a twister touched down…
The data “will only reinforce the conclusion that price pressures are more persistent than previously expected,” Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics,…