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A supermarket freezer shelf stacked with colorful ice cream cartons, each shelf tag showing a price and a price per ounce

Business Social Security Raise of 3.6% Starts in January, About $75 a Month About $75 a month for the average retired worker. Gasoline is up 34.2 percent in a year, and Medicare's premium… 17 Oct 2026

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Business Diesel Fell 2 Cents in the First Weekly Reading After Trump’s Russian Diesel Announcement The EIA's first diesel reading since Trump's Oct. 9 Russian shipment announcement is $6.179 a gallon, down 2 cents. Diesel… 14 Oct 2026

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Business Judge approves Paramount’s settlement with 12 states over the Warner Bros. deal Twelve states settled to clear Paramount's $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, and a federal judge approved that settlement… 25 Sep 2026

The empty Florida Senate chamber in Tallahassee, with rows of wooden desks and leather chairs facing the presiding officer's rostrum, where a screen reads Welcome to the Florida Senate.

Business Florida paid to study the fees insurers pay their sister companies. The Senate’s lawyer told two newspapers to shred it. A consultant the state hired found that for many Florida-based insurers, companies with the same owners were making money on… 24 Sep 2026

The marble facade of the Federal Reserve's headquarters in Washington under a blue sky.

Business The lever is not a rumor. It is a price. I have an MBA, and the classes I liked treated interest rates like a switch on the American lifestyle. This… 6 Sep 2026

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Business Diesel hit $5.85. The tractor does not get a vote. U.S. diesel set a record this week. One side calls the pain overblown; the other says working families cannot carry… 4 Sep 2026

Actor Mark Ruffalo, photographed at a 2017 Comic-Con panel.

Business I like Mark Ruffalo. So I read the whole thing before I made up my mind. The word "antisemite" got hung on a man I admire this week, over a post about a $111 billion merger.… 3 Sep 2026

The American flag and the Canadian flag flying side by side in the wind.

Business The U.S. Hit Canada With 50 Percent Tariffs, Decoded: What They Tax and Who Pays Trade talks collapsed at the deadline. Washington reached for Section 338, a 1930 anti-discrimination law, and taxed about US$20 billion… 22 Aug 2026

Aerial view of a U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve storage site on the Gulf Coast

Business The U.S. emergency oil stockpile just hit its lowest level since 1983. Here’s what that number actually tells us. America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve was built as insurance against severe supply shocks. How it has actually been used, and where… 10 Aug 2026

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Business Wages vs. the Real Cost of Living: A 25-Year Look at Prices and Spending Habits Average pay beat average prices over 25 years. But the bills you cannot skip, housing and hospitals and college, ran… 24 Jul 2026