Israel launched airstrikes on southern Gaza early Sunday in the first major test of its ceasefire with Hamas, as the two sides traded accusations of significant breaches of the deal brokered by President Donald Trump. Israel said that Hamas had carried out “a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement” with attacks on its forces in

Algi Febri Sugita/Shutterstock China is the second largest economy in the world and has recently been investing large sums of money into the AI space. Some of that investment is being funneled into creating domestic chips focused on AI technology, including DeepSeek, which made waves in the tech

For the first time since 2018, the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) will be released on a Friday, and this time, under highly unusual circumstances. The September inflation report, due this Friday, comes amid an ongoing government shutdown that has frozen most other federal data releases. This has left the Federal Reserve with limited insight

Retirees are getting a Social Security raise in 2026. How will it compare to the benefits bump they got in 2025? In most years, Social Security retirees receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), and that’s likely to happen in 2026. COLAs are critical because without them, benefits would remain unchanged while the price of goods and