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Minneapolis, Minnesota – A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old intensive-care nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday morning, the second deadly encounter involving federal officers in the city this month. The incident has generated sharply diverging narratives from federal authorities and local officials, intensifying debate over the presence of federal immigration personnel in Minneapolis. […]
WASHINGTON — Six states are funding their own premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans in 2026, aiming to cushion consumers from sharp cost increases caused by the lapse of enhanced federal aid at the close of 2025. Federal support ends, state programs emerge Enhanced federal premium tax credits, available from 2021 through […]
Soybean futures advanced at the end of Friday’s session on January 23, 2026, as traders reacted to firm cash prices and the strongest weekly U.S. export sales of the current marketing year. Nearby contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade finished 3 to 4 cents higher, capping a week in which the March contract gained a full dime. Futures […]
More than half of the United States population is under some form of winter weather alert as a large, fast-moving storm system pushes eastward across the country. Forecasts issued on Jan. 24 warn that the system will drop heavy snow over wide sections of the Central and Eastern regions while unleashing an extended arctic air […]
Detroit-area financial coach Andy Hill, 44, restructured his early-retirement ambitions after a high-intensity savings strategy created conflict at home and led the couple to marriage counseling. Hill, formerly a corporate events marketer, spent more than 15 years coordinating travel-heavy conferences and weekend functions across the United States. By his mid-30s, the constant time on the […]
Cotton prices eased at the close of trade on Friday, capping a week in which the March 2026 contract lost 85 points despite the strongest U.S. export sales tally of the marketing year. Front-month futures settled between unchanged and seven points lower, leaving March at 63.81 cents per pound, May at 65.48 cents and July […]
Authorities in Minneapolis are piecing together the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting of Alex J. Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, during a confrontation with federal agents on Jan. 24, 2026. The incident According to preliminary statements from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Border […]
The major U.S. equity benchmarks closed a shortened trading week slightly lower after a series of sharp swings driven by policy headlines and corporate earnings. From Tuesday’s opening bell to Friday’s close, investors absorbed a sudden tariff threat from President Donald Trump, a swift policy reversal, and quarterly results from household-name companies that offered few […]
The Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) attracted the seventh-largest net creation of any U.S. exchange-traded fund on Thursday, bringing in approximately $508.7 million, according to early-morning flow figures. Who gained and who lost cash Across the broad U.S. ETF universe, 10 products accounted for the bulk of new capital. Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF (VOO) […]
American climber Alex Honnold successfully scaled Taipei 101 on Sunday in Taiwan’s capital, completing the entire 508-meter (1,667-foot) ascent without ropes or protective equipment. The free-solo climb, carried out in full view of onlookers and streamed globally with a 10-second delay on Netflix, marked the first time the landmark tower has been climbed ropeless. The […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will impose a 100 percent tariff on every Canadian product entering the United States if Canada proceeds with a recently announced preliminary trade agreement with China. The threat, delivered Saturday in a post on the social-media platform Truth Social, marks an abrupt reversal from comments Trump made only days earlier […]
New York, Jan. 24, 2026 – Two popular exchange-traded funds from iShares give U.S. investors different ways to reach markets outside the United States, and recent data highlight clear contrasts in cost, performance and portfolio structure. Scope of Each Fund The iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG) is designed to track emerging-market equities across […]