LONDON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Britain's government will increase tax rates on dividends, property and savings by 2 percentage-points, finance minister Rachel Reeves said in a budget statement, saying the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—FirstEnergy will raise its base electricity rates by a net total of $34 million per year for the next few years, after winning state regulators’ blessing for the plan last week. But, on ...

A bill introduced by Senate Democrats would provide a six-month boost to Social Security benefits received by millions of Americans each month. The Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act calls ...

(NEXSTAR) – Last month, the Social Security Administration announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients. The increase ...

Social Security checks are paid to more than 50 million Americans during retirement, creating a bedrock of steady income later in life. The proposed bill comes as Americans voice growing concerns over ...

With climate change and rising temperatures, soil freeze-thaw – which is in turn causing soil breakdown – may counterintuitively increase in the hillslopes where snow cover is decreasing. Global ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Interval House is marking 48 years of helping victims of domestic violence, and this year was a particularly successful one for community outreach. Mary-Jane Foster, president ...

The increase for 2026 is larger than the 2.5% cost-of-living-adjustment that beneficiaries received for this year, but far smaller than the ones for the few years before that, when inflation was ...

Newly released inflation figures show that President Donald Trump was wrong when he repeatedly claimed this month that grocery prices are “down” or “way down.” They were up, again, last month. And ...

Across the country – and across the political spectrum – Americans see politically motivated violence as on the rise in the United States. How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to ...

With a fixed-rate mortgage, the rate literally remains fixed: It carries the same interest rate and monthly payment for the entire life of the loan. But an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) has an ...

Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Bacteria that are ...