NEW YORK, May 9, 2026 — The Week’s Numbers — What the Market Did The S&P 500 gained 2.3% for the week. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 4.5% — its best weekly performance since the AI rally that defined late 2024.…
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2026 — ABC News filed a legal brief with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday accusing the Trump administration of attempting to chill constitutionally protected free speech, escalating a months-long confrontation over whether The View — the…
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2026 — What Medicare’s Hospice Benefit Actually Covers When a Medicare beneficiary with a terminal diagnosis and a life expectancy of six months or less chooses hospice care, Medicare Part A steps in with one of the…
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2026 — The Pentagon released more than 160 previously classified files on unidentified anomalous phenomena Friday, fulfilling a promise President Trump made at a conservative gathering in April that “very interesting documents” would be released “very, very…
NEW YORK / LOS ANGELES / DALLAS, May 8, 2026 — The 2026 FIFA World Cup — the largest sporting event in human history — kicks off in 47 days across 16 American, Canadian, and Mexican cities. The United States…
NEW YORK / WASHINGTON, May 8, 2026 — What Changed This Week — Day by Day Monday opened with the worst day of the Iran war’s economic impact. Brent crude hit $114.40. Iranian fast-attack boats clashed with U.S. Navy vessels.…
WASHINGTON / TEHRAN, May 8, 2026 — Iran extended its ceasefire with the United States on Friday, averting a resumption of full-scale hostilities on the deadline day its own foreign ministry had set for the conflict’s reassessment. The April jobs…
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2026 — Why 2026 Is the Home Equity Moment Most Homeowners Haven’t Recognized The housing market of the past six years produced an uncomfortable paradox for the millions of Americans who bought homes before 2022: they are…
WASHINGTON / STRAIT OF HORMUZ, May 8, 2026 — The Iran war’s ceasefire review day arrived with American forces striking Iranian military facilities overnight, gasoline hitting $4.56 a gallon nationally — the highest since the war began — and President…
ROME / WASHINGTON, May 7, 2026 — One year ago today, Robert Francis Prevost — a 69-year-old Augustinian friar from Chicago’s South Side who had spent two decades serving the poor in Peru — walked out onto the balcony of…
WASHINGTON / RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7, 2026 — The Idea That Started With a Miscalculation Marcelo de Oliveira Souza, a cosmologist at the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, was not looking for a fast route…
NEW YORK / WASHINGTON, May 7, 2026 — Why ADP’s 109,000 Was Such a Surprise The economic narrative heading into Wednesday’s ADP report was one of steady deterioration. GDP contracted 0.3% in Q1. Private payrolls had averaged only 46,000 per…