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Adam Gault/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Americans’ household debt — including credit cards, mortgages, auto loans and student loans — is at a new all-time high $18.04 trillion, according to a report released Thursday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Overall debt grew by $93 billion in the last three months of 2024 — and […]
DISNEY/Eric McCandless Fat Joe has announced the death of his father, Ernest Cartagena, who passed away at 79 years old. He shared the news on Instagram Wednesday alongside a carousel featuring photos of his dad. “Sad to announce the passing of my Father ‘ERNESTO AKA CUBA,’” he wrote. “papi te quero para siempre. This has been […]
(WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services was narrowly confirmed by the Senate on Thursday. The final vote was 52 to 48. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who overcame polio at a young age, was the sole Republican to oppose Kennedy and vote no. Democrats were unanimous in […]
(NEW YORK) — Executives at CoreCivic, one of the nation’s largest private prison companies, said they anticipate the Trump administration’s new immigration policies will lead to “the most significant growth” in the company’s history over the next several years. “I’ve worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting […]
Phil McCarten/CBS John Legend will be spending Memorial Day weekend at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas, where he’ll perform as part of the launch of the resort’s 2025 Music Making Waves concert series. He’s slated to hit Casuarina Beach on May 24 with a set featuring intimate renditions of hits “All of Me,” “Ordinary People,” “Tonight” […]
(WASHINGTON) — Months after she was announced to be President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education, Linda McMahon is on the hot seat in Capitol Hill Thursday as she faces senators over the future of the agency, which the president has vowed to kill. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A winter storm has left tornado damage along the Gulf Coast and piles of snow in the Plains and the Midwest — and residents are now preparing for a new storm moving in this weekend. This latest storm has dropped over 11 inches of snow in Iowa, 10 inches in […]
WABC (NEW YORK) — The human remains found in a suitcase floating in the East River last week have been identified as Edwin Echevarria, a 65-year-old Manhattan man, who was allegedly murdered by 23-year-old Christian Miller, who lived at the same address on Columbia Street, police said. The grisly discovery was made on Feb. 5 […]
(NEW YORK) — While Elon Musk has vaulted into a powerful role overhauling government agencies and upending Washington, the world’s richest person has suffered a $106 billion drop in wealth due to steep decline in shares of his Tesla electric car company. Tesla’s stock price has plummeted 30% from its all-time high in December, including […]
(ATU Images/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — During his confirmation hearings two weeks ago to lead the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated several unfounded claims about autism. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who has made money through books, speeches and lawsuits while sharing vaccine skepticism, refused to say that vaccines don’t […]
