A growing number of Americans are struggling to sock away funds for an emergency due to high inflation and climbing interest rates, a recent Bankrate survey suggests.  More than a third of survey respondents, or 36%, told Bankrate last month that they have more credit card debt than emergency savings. …

California Rep. Barbara Lee announced in a tweet Tuesday that she’s running for Senate in California, a week after Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced she will not be running for reelection in 2024. “Today I am proud to announce my candidacy for U.S. Senate,” Lee wrote. “I’ve never backed down from …

The University of Texas at Dallas has banned a student from attending classes on campus while she serves house arrest in Texas ahead of trial in a Las Vegas-area stabbing that drew international attention, a campus official said Wednesday. Authorities in Nevada have said Nika Nikoubin, 22, attacked her date …

In his latest update since his snowplow accident on New Year’s Day, actor Jeremy Renner shared a behind-the-scenes photo from his upcoming Disney+ series and thanked fans for being patient while he was “in the shop now, working on me.” The Valentine’s Day post on Instagram gave Renner’s followers an …

As President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met in Washington Friday, the leaders shared some awareness of what it’s like to walk in one another’s shoes. Mr. Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump in a fraught race, securing victory with thin margins in several battleground states. …

Colgate-Palmolive is recalling 4.9 million bottles of Fabuloso all-purpose cleaner because of possible bacterial contamination. The cleaners were sold at Dollar General, Family Dollar, The Home Depot, Sam’s Club, Walmart and other major retailers, as well as online at Amazon.com elsewhere, between December 2022 and January 2023. The manufacturer is …

The man who killed a transit worker and injured multiple people in a Washington, D.C. subway station spoke threateningly to his victims, charging documents reveal. Multiple bystanders were integral in disarming the alleged attacker, the documents said.  Isaiah Trotman, 31, was arrested on charges of first-degree murder while armed, kidnapping …

Charles Kimbrough, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,” died Jan. 11 in Culver City, California, his son confirmed Sunday. He was 86. Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom “Murphy Brown” between 1988 and …

A man has filed a defamation lawsuit against a Florida sheriff who posts weekly “Wheel of Fugitive” videos on social media, saying that he wasn’t a fugitive when his name and image appeared several times in 2021 in the sheriff’s posts inspired by the long-running TV game show “Wheel of …

The cost of buying a place to live in the U.S. shot through the roof last year as surging mortgage rates pushed the price of homeownership beyond many families’ budgets.  Real estate has gotten so expensive that in most American cities, residents would save money by renting, according to a …