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‘There are four daughters. I paid the house off for my parents seven years ago and have paid the taxes each year since then.’

Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency room physician who studies racism and sexism in medicine, says there should be a disproportionate representation of people of color in the COVID-19 vaccine studies.

U.S. stock-index futures were trading sharply lower early Thursday, suggesting a third day of falls for equities, following losses in Asia and Europe overnight as new restrictions were imposed to combat rising coronavirus cases in many parts of the world.

Rents have soared some 10% in ‘spillover’ communities that are attracting migrants from pricey cities.

New research from Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce finds that the value of a college degree doesn’t necessarily depend on the factors one might expect.

Londoners from different households won’t be able to gather indoors, Germans face further controls on gatherings, and nighttime curfews are being implemented in nine French cities.

“The Canadian price increase supports our view that broader price hikes are probable in the near-term,” Jefferies analyst Alex Giaimo said in an Oct. 8 note.

Credit card issuers are looking to appeal to Gen Z at a time when travel-heavy rewards programs have lost their luster.

Two-thirds of Procter & Gamble’s shareholders this week defied the company’s own recommendations, upping the pressure on the consumer-goods giant to reduce sourcing virgin timber for its Charmin toilet paper, Puffs tissues, Bounty paper towels and more.

Robert Smith, the billionaire chief executive of Vista Equity Partners, has reached a $140 million settlement with the Justice Department, ending a yearslong criminal tax probe, according to people familiar with the matter.

Man-made climate change is a controversial topic still up for public debate and so off limits, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said during her nomination hearing.

U.S. stocks closed lower Wednesday, as Congress and the White House wrangle over further pandemic aid and big banks kick off third-quarter corporate earnings season with a cautious tone.

Democrats argue the speedy nature of the effort to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is related to an upcoming case on the Affordable Care Act