Interest rates are high and could get higher. That means auto loans are expensive. In fact, auto loan interest rates are the highest they've been since 2007, when the world was heading into a massive financial crisis. Rates average 7.4%, according to Edmunds, up 3 percentage points in just one quarter.
A new poll of registered voters in Nevada suggests the state is poised to reprise its role as a key battleground in the presidential election next November, while its first-in-the-West Republican caucuses in February could help to cement former President Donald Trump's hold on the race for his party's nomination.
Misinformation has run rampant on Elon Musk's social media platform X in the 48 hours since Hamas militants' surprise attack on Israel, with users sharing false and misleading claims about the conflict and Musk himself pointing users to an account known for spreading misinformation.
A floating village now lies stranded on a lakebed in Brazil's Amazon as severe drought leaves communities struggling to access food, fresh water and fuel.
Hops in major beer-producing European countries like Germany, Czech Republic and Slovenia are ripening earlier and producing less since 1994, scientists found. And, perhaps most alarmingly for the IPA lovers of the world, they are starting to lose their critical bitter component.
Former baseball star Steve Garvey is entering the US Senate race in California, hoping to become the first Republican elected to the chamber from the state since 1988.
As bombs rained down on Gaza Monday, Palestinian-Americans visiting or living there said they were desperately trying to find ways out of the region but have received little or no support from US Embassy officials, even though they are US citizens.
The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to revisit the landmark First Amendment decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, rebuffing a request to take another look at decades-old precedent that created a higher bar for public figures to claim libel in civil suits.
Frontline provides a longform examination with "Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover," an evenhanded account of the impetuous billionaire's misguided foray into another business frontier.
Everything about financing a home purchase surged last year, from mortgage rates to fees and discount points, according to a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on mortgage costs.
In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of "bird-friendly" building measures.
Corporate America is railing against striking workers, claiming unions are demanding too much. Give in, and companies will be less profitable and at a competitive disadvantage, big business has said.
For the second time in just over two months, Country Garden has warned investors that it could default on its $190 billion debt in a reminder that China's real estate crisis is far from over.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees better odds that central banks will manage to tame inflation without tipping the global economy into recession, but it warned Tuesday that growth remained weak and patchy.
