1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (669+ words) The circus has not only come to town, but it’s taken up permanent residence in the United States Capitol. A cascade of interconnected crises, from runaway artificial intelligence and environmental collapse to record diesel prices and the dismantling of federal…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1179+ words) Chief executives at America’s largest corporations received an average of $22.8 million in compensation last year, 312 times the pay of the median U.S. worker, as the gap between executive and worker compensation widened sharply, according to an AFL-CIO report released Aug....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (718+ words) New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the state Division of Consumer Affairs have joined the Federal Trade Commission and 21 other states in a lawsuit accusing Amazon of secretly manipulating its advertising auction system to overcharge hundreds of thousands of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (550+ words) Imagine yourself waking up tomorrow and discovering your sex had changed from the one you’ve lived with throughout your life. If you had been a man, you have a woman’s body, and had you been a woman, you have a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (720+ words) A Toms River man pleaded guilty Aug. 19 to orchestrating a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud conspiracy and fraudulently obtaining more than $1.8 million in federal pandemic relief loans, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced. Arthur Spitzer, 39, entered the plea before U.S. District Judge Edward S. Kiel to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (715+ words) The federal government’s ledger has put another one of President Donald Trump’s promise into the realm of fantasy, with the national debt plunging past $40 trillion — a number so vast it has ceased to have meaning for the ordinary citizen. Treasury…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (674+ words) The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond, which acts as the gravitational pull on everything from business loans to the monthly mortgage bill of a family in Ohio, on Monday reached 5.29%, its highest mark since 2007. The global bond selloff intensified…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (977+ words) If all goes to plan, a Ridgewood family of four will soon be trading their suburban New Jersey life for the sun-drenched coasts of Portugal. By then, they will have had their birth certificates notarized, submitted to fingerprinting by European…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (993+ words) President Donald Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail to “end inflation on Day One” and quickly bring down grocery and energy prices. Instead, consumer prices have continued to rise, reflecting a combination of persistent market pressures, the inflationary effects…...