This year, Social Security recipients received a 5.9% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, back in January. The purpose of that raise was to help them maintain buyer power in the face of rampant inflation. Seniors on Social Security have been steadily losing buyer power for years, despite the COLAs they've been receiving.
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The Atlantic's sea temperature has been getting warmer for 13 months, but scientists don't know why - nor if it's linked to the UK's record wet weather.
Experts say there are several benefits and credits parents need to be aware of ahead of the April 30 tax deadline.
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Residents fear the scheme will do nothing to reduce tourist numbers, but will turn Venice into ‘a museum, a theme park’
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Indigenous issues said Canada’s inability to provide safe drinking water to Indigenous communities unequivocally constitutes a human-rights violations when he delivered his report last Friday in Ottawa. Kahnawake’s Kenneth Deer, who represents the Haudenosaunee at the United Nations level, agrees with him. “Absolutely,” Deer said. “That kind of human-rights abuse has been going on for far too long in Canada.” The UN Special Rapporteur wrapped up his visit
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite higher interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve in its bid to curb inflation. The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week ending April 20 fell by 5,000 to 207,000 from 212,000 the previous week. That's the fewest since mid-February. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out some of the weekly up-and-downs, ticked down by 1,250 to 213,250. Wee
This year’s expansive 90-concert programme features debut performances from Florence Welch and Sam Smith.
Lawyers for former president Donald Trump argue to the Supreme Court that he can't be criminally charged for any action he took while in office.
Reuters/Denis SinyakovA Russian court has sentenced two teenagers to hard time for graffiti and anti-war social media posts. Lyubov Lizunova, 16, was sentenced to 3.5 years in a penal colony, while 19-year-old Alexander Snezhkov got 6 years, the court’s press service said Thursday. The two were detained by federal agents in October 2022 for writing “death to the regime” in graffiti in the city of Chita.Since President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has ordered a crackdown on dissent ac
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Shipping companies like UPS and FedEx are facing uncertainty in U.S. supplies of big, boxy electric step vans they need to replace their gas guzzlers.
Stock Market Today: Dow Jones futures dived 400 points on GDP data. Meta stock plunged on earnings, while Google and Microsoft report next.
Marcus Rashford is again expected miss the game, while Casemiro should remain at centre-back
The first plane carrying asylum seekers could depart in July.
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Europe to rise up to the challenges of a changed world, warning that "our Europe, today, is mortal and it can die". During a keynote speech at the Sorbonne University on Thursday, Macron appealed for stronger, more integrated European defences.He said the continent must not become a vassal of the United States, as he outlined his vision for a more assertive European Union on the global stage."[Europe] can die and this depends only on our choices," Macro
Shoplifting was up by 37% in the year to December 2023, the highest since records began in 2003.
The latest Government findings confirm the scale and depth of the ‘behaviour crisis’ in schools, a teaching union leader has said.
What impact will Labour's pledge to nationalise the railways have?
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