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NEW YORK — Michael Montgomery used to check the balance on his retirement account once a week and smile. But lately, not wanting to get upset and question if he could retire in a few years, there was only one solution.“I’m not looking,” says the 66-year-old professor from Huntington Woods, Michigan.As the White House simultaneously injects turmoil into financial markets with its trade war and dismisses fears of a downturn, retired and near-retired Americans are anxiously looking on, worried about outliving their savings or having to put off entries on their bucket lists.Keeping logged off his account has made Montgomery’s…
This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. Madison, a 12-year-old from Illinois, visits a medical clinic every other week to get injections of Xolair, a powerful asthma and allergy medication. The drug helps protect her from severe asthma attacks as well as serious allergic reactions to peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame seeds. Medical professionals at the clinic monitor her response to the injections, since the drug can trigger life-threatening anaphylactic shock. But now, thanks to a policy change by her insurer, Blue Cross Blue…
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Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillionGoogle has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion. The ruling issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia comes on the heels…
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published during Senior Bowl week in late January 2025.MOBILE, Ala. — A highlight-reel play at the Senior Bowl can put a draft prospect on everyone’s radar, lift his draft stock or elevate him to a new level, still months before picks are made in April.For Jack Bech, it also helped him grieve.The 6-foot-2 receiver from TCU caught the game-winning touchdown in the 2025 Senior Bowl, taking a knee in the end zone after he scored.Making plays is what he had done all week. In practice Wednesday, there was a long throw from Alabama quarterback…
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SINGAPORE: Chinese firms are still building new coal-fired power plants in Indonesia despite a 2021 pledge to stop financing coal projects overseas, according to an analysis of energy investments in BRICS countries released on Tuesday (Apr 29). China is involved in constructing 7.7 gigawatts of new coal-fired power, mostly plants used to run nickel smelters in Indonesia, US think tank Global Energy Monitor said. The BRICS bloc was founded by Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2009 and has since expanded its membership and partners to cover around a quarter of the global economy and half the world’s climate-warming carbon…
Washington — The Education Department will soon begin collecting payments for student loans that are in default, including through wage garnishment for potentially millions of borrowers, the department announced Monday.Beginning May 5, the Education Department will begin involuntary collections through the Treasury Department’s offset program, which claws back delinquent debts by withholding payments such as tax refunds, federal salaries and Social Security benefits. More than 5 million borrowers are in default and 4 million more could be in the same position in a few months, which would put nearly a quarter of the federal student loan portfolio in default, according to…
LONDON — Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they caution more work is needed to confirm their findings.The research, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, detected evidence of compounds in the exoplanet’s atmosphere that on Earth are only produced by living organisms and contended it’s the strongest potential signal yet of life. Independent scientists described the findings as interesting, but not nearly enough to show the existence of life on another planet.“It is the strongest sign to date of any possibility of biological activity outside the solar…
The remaining American Idol contestants had no time to rest between learning they made the top 12 and having to hit the stage again one day later. During the Monday, April 28, episode, the artists performed songs that represented iconic moments in American Idol history.Judges Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie were there to offer feedback, but at this point in the competition, the decisions are solely in America’s hands. Viewers got to vote for their favorites throughout the episode, and the two hopefuls that received the least amount of votes were eliminated at the end of the night.Scroll down for…