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Americans hoping for lower borrowing costs for homes, credit cards and cars may be disappointed after this week’s Federal Reserve meeting

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Faced with rising social frustrations and public unrest, China’s leaders are ramping up security measures and squelching discordant views on the country’s economic health.

The Spider-Man spinoff “Kraven the Hunter” got off to a disastrous start in North American theaters this weekend

Right now chestnut enthusiasts are cozying up next to their open fires (or toaster ovens) to roast a holiday snack that has long roots in North America

Kapoor family has contributed more legends to Indian cinema than any other film dynasty. From acting and directing to writing, members of this illustrious clan have excelled in nearly every aspect of filmmaking—except academics. Over a century of cinematic history, the Kapoors have produced over a dozen superstars, but only one graduate. Aditya Raj Kapoor, the son of Shammi Kapoor, is the only member of the Kapoor family to complete higher education. Remarkably, he achieved this milestone at the age of 67. In 2023, Aditya became one of India’s oldest graduates by earning a Philosophy degree through correspondence from the Indira Gandhi National Open University. Taking his academic pursuits further, he began a teaching career in August 2024, delivering his first lecture on the synthesis of Eastern and Western virtue ethics, as reported by ETimes. Born in 1956 to Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali, Aditya is among the few Kapoor men who didn’t have a successful film career. Educated at Lawrence School, Sanawar, he started as an assistant to his uncle Raj Kapoor on Bobby and later worked on Dharam Karam and Satyam Shivam Sundaram. Moving away from films to focus on business, Aditya eventually returned to acting in 2010 with films like Chase and debuted on television in 2014 with Everest. However, just before the pandemic, he shifted his focus to academics, completing his graduation.

Mie Takahashi is one of a small group of female toji, or master Japanese sake brewers

Serbia's president says the United States plans to introduce sanctions against Serbia’s main gas supplier that is controlled by Russia

He articulated the disturbing accusation in a widely circulated series of tweets and a critical article that has gained significant attention online. Turley, who teaches law at George Washington University, referred to the fabricated accusations as “chilling.” “It fabricated a claim suggesting I was on the faculty at an institution where I have never been, asserted I took a trip I never undertook, and reported an allegation that was entirely false,” he remarked to The Post. “It’s deeply ironic, given that I have been discussing the threats AI poses to free speech.”

An Atlanta man has been arrested and charged with fraud after George Mason University’s men’s basketball team was forced to cancel a trip to the Bahamas earlier this year after it paid for travel that was never actually booked

Jordan Peterson, the polarizing Canadian psychologist, has bid Canada adieu and will now call the United States home, citing personal and professional reasons for the move.

blue zones" famous for having a high proportion of people over 100, according to one researcher. The desire to live as long as possible has driven a booming lifestyle industry selling supplements, books, tech and tips to those wanting to learn the secrets of the world's oldest people. But Saul Justin Newman, a researcher at University College London's Centre for Longitudinal Studies, told AFP that most extreme old age data «is junk to a really shocking degree».

Residents throughout Serbia have stopped in silence for 15 minutes as part of persistent protests against the populist leadership following the collapse last month of a concrete canopy in the country’s north that killed 15 people

governor have to work for the people and there is little room for sensitivity in this complementary relationship, says Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, stressing that both have to work for the welfare of the people. Patel, who took office on July 29, 2019, is the first woman governor of Uttar Pradesh since Sarojini Naidu in 1949 and also its longest serving. «I don't see the relationship between the government and Raj Bhavan as sensitive. Both the government and the governor have to work for the people. There is hardly any room for sensitivity,» Patel told PTI in an exclusive interview. «Conflicts arise in states like West Bengal and Kerala where attempts were made to revoke the powers of the governors by making changes in the law and which subsequently led to court cases,» she said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The collapse of the House of Assad has exposed a seam of vulnerability for another autocrat, one of the former Syrian leader’s strongest allies: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the height of Putin’s great power ambitions, Moscow sought to project its might far beyond the country’s vast frontiers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Inflation played a starring role in last month’s election, and part of Donald Trump ’s pitch was that he would cool things off. “I won on groceries," the president-elect said in an interview Sunday on “Meet the Press." In his nomination-acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in July, Trump said he would “end the devastating inflation crisis immediately." Despite his pledge to lower inflation, if Trump follows through on some of his tariff and immigration plans , economists worry he might do just the opposite .

The Fed cut rates by a quarter point at its Nov. 7 meeting, its second rate cut in two meetings. Coupled with September's half-point cut, the federal funds rate has been reduced by a cumulative 0.75 percentage points to a range of 4.50%–4.75%.

A lawyer and investor who managed money for one of the richest families in Texas, helped create one of the giants of the private-equity business and pushed to bring professional hockey to Seattle has died

A tweet from a financial advisor in Arizona, Adam Harding, went viral this summer when he shared a conversation he had with a client with a healthy bank account in her 70s. He had encouraged her to share that wealth with her kids and grandkids before she died. The more than 1,500 responses showed the extraordinary divide between the generations, with many gen Zers and millennials saying that baby boomers especially are hanging on to their money too long and boomers saying that’s their right.

U.S. consumers would likely see prices increase if President-elect Donald Trump follows through with a plan to levy import tariffs, experts said Tuesday during CNBC's Financial Advisor Summit.

West Bengal government on Tuesday passed two bills for formation of two private universities in the state during the penultimate day of the winter session of the Assembly. The two bills, passed in the assembly, will help in setting up of two private universities-Rabindranath Tagore University in Nadia district’s Dhaniakhali and Ramakrishna Paramhansa University at North 24 Parganas district’s Agarpara. State Minister for Higher Education & School Department Bratya Basu said in his speech on the floor of the House, “In Bengal there are 15 private universities altogether, including these two new universities, along with government universities.”