As the dust settles in Washington over the Senate tax reform, clear winners and losers are emerging. Tobie Stanger, Senior Editor at Consumer Reports, breaks down the pros and cons of this potential bill.
Stanger's clear winners: Those who take the standard deduction, families with dependents, teachers of grades K-12, people with expensive medical bills, and wealthy, self-employed people.
Plus, there is a clause that gives a tax break to people who own golf courses. We'll let you take a guess at who owns several courses in America...
Britain’s Prince Harry has sharply attacked the failure of social media companies to challenge hate online, revealing that he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that the site was being used to stage political unrest.
Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% in October compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, gas and housing left Americans grappling with the highest inflation rate since 1990.
Mississippi's 2018 law banning almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, could be the one to show whether a strong conservative majority on the Supreme Court will uphold or overturn Roe v. Wade
The U.S. has fully reopened its borders with Mexico and Canada and lifted restrictions on travel that covered most of Europe.
America’s employers stepped up their hiring in October, adding a solid 531,000 jobs, the most since July and a sign that the recovery from the pandemic recession may be overcoming a virus-induced slowdown.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a fresh pandemic low last week, another sign the job market is healing after last year’s coronavirus recession.
The Federal Reserve made official on Wednesday its plan to wind down the aggressive monthly bond-buying program that has defined the central bank's pandemic response.
Fed watchers are expecting Jerome Powell to announce a timeline for tapering bond purchases on Wednesday afternoon following the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.
World leaders are promising to protect the world’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit.
A majority of the Supreme Court are signaling that they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy.
