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Social Security is by far one of the most popular government programs in the United States because it is critical for so many retirees’ financial security.

The US government formally proposed a partial breakup of Google on Wednesday, urging a federal judge to force a sale of the company’s Chrome web browser after a landmark ruling this year finding that Google had violated US antitrust law with its search business.

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and other executives were indicted in New York for roles in a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice said Wednesday.

Europe could soon be welcoming a wave of well-heeled Americans, as Democratic voters facing the prospect of another Donald Trump presidency eye refuges abroad.

Comcast just jump-started a new season of major change across the television industry. And no one quite knows what will happen next.

Sheetz, the gas station and convenience store chain, is slashing prices at some of its pumps ahead of the busy Thanksgiving travel period.

Target is expecting a surprisingly weak holiday shopping season, a warning sign for the retail industry.

Trump’s Commerce secretary pick backed a crypto company that can’t seem to stay out of trouble

Thanksgiving dinner will cost less this year than last but will still be 19% higher than before the pandemic, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual Thanksgiving survey out Wednesday.

Comcast is planning to spin off most of its cable television networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, into a separate publicly traded company, according to executives with knowledge of the plan.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has sued a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee and the families of some of the Sandy Hook victims in an attempt to stop the sale of his media empire Infowars to the satirical news outlet The Onion.

The cat’s out of the bag: Jaguar has unveiled a new logo that emphasizes its posh pronunciation as it transitions into a “new era” that emphasizes its all-electric vehicle lineup.

Markets sold off Tuesday as geopolitical tensions escalated between Ukraine and Russia.

Protesters opposed to Tesla’s expansion of its plant near Berlin were holding out in trees Tuesday as German police sought to clear their forested camp.

Jersey Mike’s Subs is selling a significant stake to private equity giant Blackstone, ending its nearly seven-decade run as an independently owned business that transformed into a major competitor against well-entrenched competitors like Subway.

Walmart’s business is surging. Customers making more than $100,000 a year are fueling the growth.

The president-elect’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrations may backfire, driving up the cost of homebuying even further.

In the first quarter of this year, the price of bitcoin broke records in the wake of approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first exchange-traded spot bitcoin funds. The cryptocurrency topped $70,000 in March, according to coinmarketcap.com.

Donald Trump is returning to the White House without many of the guardrails of his first term.

Donald Trump’s agenda as US president will include overseeing the development of artificial intelligence, potentially the most powerful technology of our time. He has promised to “slash excess regulations” and tapped tech billionaire Elon Musk to help lead the effort.

Brazil’s first lady, Janja Lula da Silva, swore while addressing billionaire Elon Musk during a G20 event on the weekend, at which she spoke about the need to regulate social media to rein in misinformation.

Young American adults are increasingly getting their news from social media influencers, a majority of whom are men and lean to the right, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission signaled that it won’t be business-as-usual at the country’s communications regulatory agency

Novo Nordisk said Monday it has launched its popular obesity drug Wegovy in China, the world’s second-largest pharmaceuticals market where it estimates more than 180 million people live with obesity.

MSNBC co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski “went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally” with President-elect Donald Trump, Brzezinski revealed at the beginning of Monday’s show. The Friday rendezvous was “the first time we have seen him in seven years,” she added.

President-elect Donald Trump may find the road to cheaper gas prices is a little rocky.

New Tashkent will include university campuses, and purpose-built tourism and innovation areas.

Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, as mounting losses, unaffordable debt, increased competition for bargain-seeking airline passengers and the inability to merge with other airlines left it little choice.

Americans have spent the last few years complaining about inflation. But price rises in Russia are eye-watering by comparison – and just one symptom of an economy that is overheating.

Top pollster J. Ann Selzer will retire from the Des Moines Register’s famed Iowa Poll and the survey will “evolve” after it failed to accurately capture former President Donald Trump’s strong support in the 2024 election.

Enjou Chocolat, a small business in Morristown, New Jersey, is still strained by rising costs these days — from soaring cocoa prices to increased labor expenses.

Warner Bros. Discovery will settle its lawsuit against the NBA and announce it has struck a deal with Disney to exclusively license its beloved TNT show “Inside the NBA” starting next season, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.

As Donald Trump privately considers his team to lead America’s economy during his term, Elon Musk has put his thumb on the scale, urging followers on X to help make a public push for a candidate who won’t be “business as usual” on Wall Street.

The world’s largest retail bookseller is expanding at a breakneck pace and is on track to reach its goal of more than 60 planned openings this year. The plan marks a dramatic shift from when it closed hundreds of its stores before the arrival of a new CEO.

It’s called sticker shock.

President-elect Donald Trump promised Americans he’d bring down consumer prices, make health care more affordable and protect Social Security. Now he has to follow through.

McDonald’s is spending $100 million on marketing and to help franchises most heavily affected by a recent E. coli outbreak that has sickened more than 100 people and damaged sales.

The $7,500 tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles could be vanishing early in the new Trump administration, but that might actually be good news for Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent backers.

Climate change is impacting urban areas especially hard, but FortyGuard believes data can help efforts to cool cities down.

Laura Helmuth is resigning as editor-in-chief of Scientific American magazine following an expletive-filled rant about Donald Trump voters.

Every hero’s journey has its downbeat second act — the part where many-headed monsters have to be fought back, where the road gets dark and twisty and teeming with threats — before the sun comes up and suddenly everything is, more or less, back on track.

Family-run furniture and barware maker Barrel-Art has now been through three US presidential elections. While the run-up to the 2024 race brought similar business patterns as those experienced in 2016 and 2020, it has also brought more unpredictability than previous presidential outcomes.

By some estimates, almost half of US private sector workers — close to 57 million people, according to AARP — do not have access to a retirement plan at their jobs. That’s either because their company doesn’t offer one or because they don’t qualify to participate in an employer’s existing plan.

Shares of prominent vaccine makers plunged Thursday after President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that interest rates are still expected to decline further, but suggested they might not be that much lower over the next few months.

The European Union has fined Meta Platforms €798 million ($840 million) over what it called abusive practices benefiting Facebook Marketplace.

US wholesale inflation picked up more than expected in October, indicating that some price pressures persist at the producer level.

Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars.

Advance Auto Parts is closing more than 700 locations to shore up the company’s finances following another dismal earnings report.

Starbucks customized drinks overwhelmed workers. Now it wants you to add your own sugar and milk