The Social Security Administration on Friday announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment for 2026, an increase that will automatically boost monthly payments for the program's roughly 71 million ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew faster than previously estimated in the second quarter amid strong consumer spending and business investment, though momentum appears to be ...

The U.S. economy grew at a strong 3.8% annualized pace in the second quarter, the government reported Thursday in its final revision of gross domestic product data for April through June. U.S. GDP — ...

The settlement is one of the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, which sued Amazon two years ago. By Karen Weise and Cecilia Kang Reporting from Seattle and Washington Amazon ...

The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest ...

Today’s Powerball jackpot has climbed to $1.8 billion — the second most in U.S. lottery history – and you can take home anywhere from $430 million to $1.1 billion of that. It all depends on (a) ...

Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, ...

Following the first preview three months ago, Google is ready to launch Gemini 2.5 Pro and make the reasoning model generally available (GA) for consumers and developers. With this launch, 2.5 Pro ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is keeping an eye on a new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or “Nimbus,” that has spread across Europe, the Americas and the Western Pacific. Nimbus is a ...

A new COVID variant driving a surge of infections in China and other parts of Asia has been detected by U.S. airport screening programs, and experts say it may drive a summer wave in the U.S. NB.1.8.1 ...

A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a potential summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines ...

Lara Herrero receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. As we enter the colder months in Australia, COVID is making headlines again, this time due to the emergence of a ...