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Stocks fell in response to heightened sentiments regarding the ongoing government shutdown and the overvaluation of many equities across...

Gold, which has led commodity alternative assets as one of the fastest growing in the market, has recently surpassed 4,000 on the market,...

Markets generally rose as investors reacted to a pivotal artificial intelligence deal between Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and OpenAI....

Intro California is taking direct aim at legacy and donor preferences in college admissions. For first generation and low-income students, this is meant to remove one tilted piece of the playing field. What Changed Beginning in September 2025, private nonprofit colleges in California are barred from giving preference to applicants because of family ties or donations. Admissions offices must remove legacy and donor status from the factors they consider. Students whose parents

Consumer confidence of the current economic conditions fell significantly in September as new data shows a softening jobs report and...

Markets failed to make significant gains as the federal government shutdown continues to loom over the entire nation, and artificial...

Markets seemed to withstand pressure from the recent government shutdown by placing their attention toward job data. President Donald...

Intro The WIC program is a lifeline for millions of new parents and young children, but when government money stops, so does the help. What Changed With the shutdown starting on October 1, WIC funding is running on fumes. States only have a small reserve, and once it’s gone, families stop getting formula, cereal, and fruit vouchers. The hardest hit are parents with newborns who rely on monthly EBT reloads and those caring for infants with medical diets. Grocery stores that ac

Vice Chair Philip Jefferson, one of the biggest names from the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, sounded the alarm of the labor...

Markets finished the September month strong, setting records as stocks rebounded amid uncertainty over the U.S. government's potentially...

Intro When protections for sharing cyber-attack data expire, everyone feels it from hospitals to power plants to the families who rely on them. What Changed The law that shielded companies when they shared cyber-threat information with the government expired right as the shutdown began. With most cyber staff on leave, fewer analysts were around to help coordinate warnings. Hospitals, city utilities, and small-town governments are now slower to report intrusions for fear of la

Intro When the government closes, federal employees usually get paid later, but contractors often don’t and that’s a big problem for a lot of people. What Changed The bill would pay back wages to both federal workers and contractors during shutdowns. If it becomes law, janitors, cooks, guards, and call-center agents who keep federal buildings running would finally get pay for the days they couldn’t work. For now, most of them still go unpaid if Congress stalls. Families relyi