"The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap" Author & UCI Law School Professor Mehrsa Baradaran joins Yahoo Finance’s Kristin Myers to discuss why communities of color need capital to build more capital.
Tesla shares hit a new all-time high on Wednesday as the EV maker continues its relentless run higher since President-elect Donald Trump’s election win.
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Defense Department, said he had a “wonderful conversation” with Maine Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday as he pushed to win enough votes for confirmation. Collins said after the hourlong meeting that she questioned Hegseth about the allegations amid reports of drinking and the revelation that he made a settlement payment after being accused of a sexual assault that he denies.
The CPI report sets the stage for the Federal Reserve's final interest rate decision of the year.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now worth more than $400 billion, according to Bloomberg News. Here's how his wealth stacks up.
Her family is “relieved and grateful” the 30-year-old Hawaii woman is safe after missing a flight in Los Angeles in November.
Inflation has cooled from its most recent peak, but progress in getting it to a 2% annual rate has been slow.
On Dec. 11, 30-year-old Hannah Kobayashi's family issued a statement saying she had been "found safe" after a month of news coverage and concern.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo another operation Thursday to "minimize the risk of future bleeding" in an area under his skull that received emergency surgery this week, his doctor said.Doctors performed emergency surgery Tuesday on Lula to relieve pressure on his brain from bleeding in cranial membranes linked to a fall he had in October, in a bathroom at the presidential residence.
The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at the ministry's offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the attack.However, the regional chapter of IS, known as Islamic State Khorasan, is active in Afghanistan and has regularly targeted civilians, foreigners and Taliban officials with gun and bomb attacks.
Real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon are facing sex trafficking charges in New York.
FBI Director Christopher Wray announced on Wednesday that he will resign in January before President-elect Donald Trump takes office."After weeks of careful thought, I've decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down," Wray told bureau employees in remarks released by the FBI. Trump, who is to be sworn in as president on January 20, has announced the nomination of staunch loyalist Kash Patel to replace Wray as
A CIA analyst charged with leaking top secret details ahead of a planned Israeli attack on Iran earlier this year will remain jailed pending trial, a judge ordered Wednesday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles overrules a magistrate who said last week that Asif Rahman, 34, of Vienna, Virginia, could be free on restrictions while he awaits trial on charges of disclosing national defense information. At Wednesday's detention hearing, prosecutor Troy Edwards said Rahman was motivated by ideology, though he did not discuss what that ideology might be.
Luigi Mangione is charged in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Russian forces are now just three kilometers (1.9 miles) from the outskirts of the key eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after making advances Wednesday, according to Ukrainian mapping service DeepState. They have also destroyed or captured Ukrainian positions near the city, a Ukrainian army spokesperson said.
On Dec. 11, Hannah Kobayashi's family said she was "found safe." Here's a detailed timeline of events and updates that have happened since she went missing in early November.
A Chinese citizen has been charged with flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California where he is alleged to have recorded images of the military facility, the US Justice Department said Wednesday.The Justice Department said Zhou is a Chinese citizen and a lawful permanent resident of the United States, and had been in China most recently in February.
A humpback whale crossed multiple oceans for a massive migration that covered more than 8,000 miles, according to a new study.
WASHINGTON — A massive defense policy bill on track to clear the House on Wednesday includes a ban on gender-affirming care for children of servicemembers — a provision that sparked opposition from the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
The Palestinians urged U.N. member nations to support resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and backing the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban. The 193 nations in the U.N. General Assembly will vote on Wednesday after two days of speeches overwhelmingly calling for an end to the 14-month war between Israel and the militant Hamas group.
ORLANDO (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for NASA administrator, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, said Wednesday that the private astronaut missions he has planned with Elon Musk's SpaceX "may wind up on hold for a moment," as he prepares to enter government service leading the U.S. space agency. "The future of the Polaris program is a little bit of a question mark at the moment," Isaacman, who was tapped by Trump last week to lead NASA, said in response to a question at the Spacepower 2024 conference in Orlando.
money