money Our Chicago Part 1: How to navigate the Chicago area real estate market
Earlier in the pandemic, we saw a housing market boom. Now, we're tracking slower home sales, rising mortgage rates, and rent hikes.
Earlier in the pandemic, we saw a housing market boom. Now, we're tracking slower home sales, rising mortgage rates, and rent hikes.
Like thousands of his countrymen in far-flung places, flower-shop owner Ashish Nagose has been learning about trading cryptocurrencies by attending classes every weekday for the past two months in his home city of Nagpur in western India. Nagose has bought and sold stock options earlier but is now venturing into cryptocurrencies as regulators have made it harder to trade equity derivatives in India. The 28-year-old believes the red-hot crypto asset class can help shield his family-owned flower shop during downturns.
Stocks are hugging the flatline as insecurity over tariffs and risks to Nvidia take hold.
The widespread impact of the fires, which displaced tens of thousands of people, created an extraordinary need for government services.
Federal employees started another work week receiving mixed messages from the top after Elon Musk's weekend email ultimatum.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that he was replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he didn't think they were “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given. Speaking at the start of a meeting with Saudi Arabia's defense minister, Hegseth refused to answer a question about why the Trump administration has selected a retired general to be the next Joint Chiefs chairman, when he doesn't meet the legal qualifications for the job. President Donald Trump on Friday abruptly fired the chairman, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., and Hegseth followed that by firing Navy Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the chief of naval operations, and Air Force Gen. James Slife, the vice chief of the Air Force.
A Mississippi city dropped its lawsuit Monday against a newspaper that had its editorial criticizing local leaders removed by a judge in a case that sparked widespread outrage from First Amendment advocates. The city of Clarksdale's board of commissioners sought to dismiss its libel lawsuit against The Clarksdale Press Register, filing the request moments after its board of commissioners approved the move. The judge in the case must still dismiss her order that the editorial be removed from the paper's website, which the city also asked her to do.
Trump has horrified European allies with his attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy and what critics say is a soft take on Vladimir Putin.
Around 180 FDA medical device workers were laid off earlier this month by DOGE.
The French President carefully handled his U.S. counterpart in front of reporters.
The gunman who held intensive care unit staff hostage at UPMC Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania before killing a police officer and injuring five other people Saturday believed that more could have been done to save his wife, who was on life support for a terminal illness, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.
President Donald Trump has launched a sweeping shakeup of the Pentagon, firing top officers and moving to lay off thousands of civilian workers as he seeks to align the US military with his priorities.The removal of the officers has pushed the Pentagon into the political spotlight, with Democrats accusing Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of seeking to politicize the military and ensure it is led by people personally loyal to the president.
Visitors to America’s national parks can expect shorter hours and longer lines after the Trump administration fired 1,000 park employees as part of its latest effort to dramatically reduce the federal workforce.
What hurts school children more, threats of federal raids or more immigrant kids in class?
US President Donald Trump said Monday that tariffs he unveiled on Canada and Mexico are moving forward as planned, addressing reporters after meeting with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, who urged "fair competition" in trade.Apart from blanket duties on major US trading partners Canada and Mexico, Trump has launched plans for "reciprocal tariffs" that would be tailored to each country, with details to come at a later time.
Employees of the US federal government on Monday faced a deadline imposed by Elon Musk that required them to explain their work achievements in an email or potentially lose their jobs.Musk on Monday said Saturday's email "was basically a check to see if the employee had a pulse and was capable of replying to an email."
A planned automation upgrade went haywire and plagued one of Las Vegas' most prominent properties over the weekend, forcing thousands of guests to wait hours before reaching their rooms, officials said Monday.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned Monday that peace cannot mean the "surrender" of Ukraine, but said talks with US President Donald Trump had shown a path forward despite fears of a transatlantic rift."After speaking with President Trump, I fully believe there is a path forward," said Macron.
A US judge on Monday declined to immediately order the White House to restore full access to President Donald Trump's events to the Associated Press news agency.McFadden, a Trump appointee, declined the AP's request to issue a restraining order temporarily restoring AP's access to all Trump events and scheduled a March 20 hearing to revisit the case.
U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to end his campaign to claw back funds previously granted for greenhouse gas reduction projects, saying that effort is illegal. The senators, who sit on the Senate environment and public works committee, said Zeldin's well-publicized social media campaign to seize $20 billion appropriated through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act defies legal authority and will destroy jobs created as a result of that funding throughout the US. "Your announcement is the latest example of the Trump Administration and its government efficiency 'experts' using unfounded claims of waste, fraud, and abuse as a smokescreen to ignore congressional spending authority and ignore court orders in order to freeze or terminate programs designed to reduce carbon pollution," said the letter, signed by the nine Democrats on the committee led by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
The Trump-appointed judge declined to grant emergency relief to the wire service — but suggested it has a strong case.