When asked if the Fed is "on hold" for now when it comes to further rate cuts, Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters that today’s decision to reduce the benchmark federal-funds rate by a quarter ...

Jan 7 (Reuters) - World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by the family of President Donald Trump, said on Wednesday that its subsidiary has filed an application with U.S. banking regulators ...

Just five years ago, December was “a staffing nightmare” for Carroll County’s fire and emergency medical services, Fire and Emergency Medical Services Chief Michael Robinson said. With holiday ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

This year is coming to an end, but When Calls the Heart fans have a lot to look forward to in the new year, seeing as a new season will start right at the start of the 2026 TV schedule. Season 13 is ...

China’s central bank is rolling out a new framework for the digital yuan that will allow commercial banks to pay interest on e-CNY wallet balances starting Jan. 1, 2026, a move officials say will push ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Bay Area planners seem to have a problem with Marin. We don’t look like the South Bay. They think Marin has plenty of room to grow – out and up. The state’s undermining of local control over land-use ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...