A driver refuels a vehicle with regular gasoline at a Chevron gas station in Miami, Florida, US, on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. Zak Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Inflation remained stubbornly high in August — and economists said consumers are likely to continue to feel the financial pain in coming months as tensions flare in the…
Produce is offered for sale at a grocery store on Sept. 10, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Prices for a wide swath of goods and services continued to climb in August, according to a report Friday that raises the specter of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike next week. The consumer…
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People wait in a security line at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Aug. 12, 2026, in the Queens borough of New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks reshaped how we travel, from how we pack our toiletries to what we wear when we fly. Airport checkpoints for almost…
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the federal government will issue $500 Obamacare refunds to nearly 1 million people starting in October. The refunds will be available to enrollees in Obamacare — the informal name for the Affordable Care Act — from 30 states that use the federally run exchange to operate their healthcare marketplace,…
A report due out Friday morning will be the last piece of the inflation puzzle the Federal Reserve will get before making its decision on interest rates next week. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the August consumer price index report at 8:30 a.m. If the Dow Jones consensus is correct, the report will…
A worker at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant on April 30, 2025. Michael Wayland | CNBC DETROIT — Ford Motor on Thursday announced a $1 billion investment to build a new paint shop at its crucial Kentucky Truck Plant. The facility, which Ford has called its most important and profitable plant globally, produces the automaker’s large…
A man walks past a ChatGPT billboard in Mumbai, India, on Sept. 24, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI is taking aim at some of Wall Street’s most labor-intensive tasks with a new version of ChatGPT designed to research companies, analyze financial data and generate the presentations that investment bankers rely on. The…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on stage on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center on September 09, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. Alex Wong | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s promise of a $5,000 election “dividend” check to every adult in the U.S. comes at a time when…
Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images MELBOURNE, Australia — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he will consider reworking game packages when the league inks its next media rights deal…