On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration’s scientific advisers said the next round of shots in the U.S. should only include protection against the newest variants that are now dominant worldwide—a branch of the omicron family tree named XBB.
All told, U.S. homeowners with a mortgage lost a combined $108.4 billion in home equity between the first quarter of last year and the first three months of 2023.
COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Regulators will be making their best guess which strain to include, just like they do every year in setting the recipe for the fall flu vaccine.
The four-week moving average of claims, which flattens some of the week-to-week fluctuations, rose to its highest level since November 2021.
Spending increased at online retailers and at restaurants and bars. Department stores, electronic stores, and furniture stores also posted increases.
Chair Jerome Powell offered a nuanced view Wednesday of how the Federal Reserve intends to address its core challenge at a time when inflation is both way below its peak but still well above the central bank’s 2% target.
Former Indiana congressman Steve Buyer of Noblesville was convicted by a jury in Manhattan federal court in March of four securities fraud charges.
Mexican lager Modelo Especial overtook Bud Light in U.S. retail dollar sales in the month ending June 3.
Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018.
A federal judge in Indianapolis made no immediate ruling after hearing about 90 minutes of arguments from the Indiana attorney general’s office and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which is seeking a preliminary injunction.
The Fed’s move to leave its benchmark rate at about 5.1%, its highest level in 16 years, suggests that it believes the much higher borrowing rates it’s engineered have made some progress in taming inflation.
On a month-to-month basis, overall producer prices have now dropped three of the last four months.
AMD joins a growing list of technology companies trying to take advantage of a broader interest from businesses looking for new AI tools that can analyze data, help make decisions and potentially replace some tasks currently performed by human workers.
The Federal Reserve, having raised interest rates at the fastest pace in four decades, is poised Wednesday to leave rates alone for the first time in 15 months to allow time to gauge the impact of its aggressive drive to tame inflation.
The indictment unsealed last week charged Trump with 37 felony counts—many under the Espionage Act—that accuse him of illegally storing classified documents in his bedroom, bathroom, shower and other locations at Mar-a-Lago.
Amazon’s cloud computing unit experienced the outage shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday and it lasted more than two hours. Customers including The Associated Press and Delta Air Lines were affected.
Bunge Ltd.—which is spending $550 million to build a soybean processing plant in Shelby County—could find itself in the crosshairs of antitrust regulators in the United States due to the scale of the deal.
Rep. Jim Lucas signed an agreement with the prosecutor in Jackson County in which he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident.
An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding, while another $123 billion was wasted or misspent.
The SEC filed lawsuits last week against the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, deepening tensions between the government and a volatile industry that has been marred by scandals and market meltdowns.
