Today in History for Dec. 2: In 1552, St. Francis Xavier, the founder of the Jesuits, died while on a missionary journey to China. In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French. In 1805, the ...

In 2024, for the second year in a row, Taylor Swift was named Spotify Wrapped's most-played artist. The megastar had more than 26.6-billion streams that year as she performed around the world, with ...

Texas Tech surges to No. 5 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings, positioning the Red Raiders for a potential first ...

Lofty S&P 500 growth forecasts may be unrealstic, and risky. Read our smart strategies for uncertain markets— a focus on high ...

The CTA’s “newly redecorated holiday bus has a gingerbread house-themed layout with a Gingerbread Court with Santa’s chair in ...

President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill to end a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers ...

Three candidates vying for Durbin's seat had strong words, including Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, who directly criticized the ...

Miss Betty Jane Smith of Grand Junction, Tenn., was selected as "Rose of Delta Sig" by Gamma Zeta Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi ...

In 1920, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball’s first commissioner of the American and National Leagues.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvnia, who voted repeatedly with Republicans to reopen the government, apologized to Capitol police officers who worked without pay during the shutdown and to SNAP ...

The deal does not end the government shutdown immediately: the Sunday vote merely cleared a procedural hurdle. When the new funding deal passes the Senate, which could come as soon as Nov. 10, the ...

Fed-funds futures traders were pricing in a decent chance that the Federal Reserve will leave rates unchanged in the current 3.75% to 4% range in December, upsetting expectations for a series of rate ...