Mortgage rates fell for the first time in three weeks this week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday.Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rat...
The ongoing trade dispute with China has created serious headwinds for American farmers, with soybean producers having lost access to the world's largest market for the commodity.China halted purchase...
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released the minutes from the central bank's monetary policy meeting last month, which showed that while policymakers anticipate further interest rate cuts, they remai...
Canadian airline WestJet has introduced updated cabin interiors on select Boeing aircraft, adding three distinct seat classes and charging extra for seats that can recline.The changes were announced b...
A quirk in the fall calendar means some Social Security recipients will get two benefit payments in October. However, they aren't receiving an extra payment.The Social Security Administration (SSA) or...
Federal officials are warning consumers that certain meals from HelloFresh contain spinach that may have been contaminated with listeria.The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Ins...
The Hollywood Burbank Airport in California went without air traffic controllers for hours on Monday night amid the government shutdown. A staffing shortage meant there were no controllers on duty bet...
A leading economist is warning that job creation in the U.S. economy is slowing to a crawl as the ongoing government shutdown precluded the release of the September jobs report last week.Moody's Analy...
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid closed all of its locations after filing for bankruptcy twice in less than two years.The retailer posted a brief announcement on its website."All Rite Aid stores have now close...
I saw a lot of socialist experiments in Latin America and the results weren't pretty.If Americans want to see how badly socialism works, they don't have to go far. Beginning with Cuba's Fidel Castro i...
The ongoing partial government shutdown prevented the Labor Department from releasing the anticipated September jobs report as scheduled on Friday, causing economic data watchers to turn their attenti...
Federal investigators are examining a crash in which two Amazon Prime Air delivery drones struck a construction crane in Tolleson, Arizona, a city west of Phoenix, on Wednesday.Tolleson police said th...
