‘Stakes are high.’ With shutdown over, airlines predict record numbers of travelers this Thanksgiving

‘Stakes are high.’ With shutdown over, airlines predict record numbers of travelers this Thanksgiving

A travelers check flight information at LAX as the shutdown passes the one-month mark, leaving essential workers unpaid in Los Angeles, California, on November 5, 2025. Grace Hie Yoon | Anadolu | Getty Images U.S. airlines are predicting another record Thanksgiving holiday travel period and are upbeat now that the travel-snarling government shutdown has ended. … Read more

Microsoft faces uphill climb to turn enterprise dominance into widespread AI chatbot adoption

Microsoft faces uphill climb to turn enterprise dominance into widespread AI chatbot adoption

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build AI Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Adek Berry | AFP | Getty Images On Microsoft’s earnings call last month, CEO Satya Nadella boasted about the company’s artificial intelligence products, and said over 150 million people are using its Copilot assistant for productivity, cybersecurity, coding … Read more

Top Wall Street analysts favor these 3 stocks for solid upside potential

Top Wall Street analysts favor these 3 stocks for solid upside potential

Concerns about the steep valuations of artificial intelligence (AI) stocks and a questionable outlook for an interest rate cut in December weighed on investor sentiment in recent trading sessions. For now, however, Nvidia‘s solid earnings last week seemed to undermine the idea that everything tied to AI investment is in a bubble. Investors looking to … Read more

Gen Z is Turning Out to be More Financially Strategic Than Their Stereotype Portends

Gen Z is Turning Out to be More Financially Strategic Than Their Stereotype Portends

Credit: Igal Ness Is Gen Z the strategic generation? A new poll shows they are shunning impulse spending in favor of long-term goals. The new nationwide survey of 2,000 Gen Z American adults (defined as those born between 1997 and 2012) revealed that one in three (33%) identified themselves as planners who budget, track spending, … Read more

U.S. senators say Rubio told them Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is Russia’s ‘wish list.’ Rubio denies it

U.S. senators say Rubio told them Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is Russia’s ‘wish list.’ Rubio denies it

Lawmakers critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war said Saturday they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan President Donald Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual proposal offering Washington’s positions. A State Department … Read more

China says Japan sent ‘shocking’ wrong signal on Taiwan

China says Japan sent ‘shocking’ wrong signal on Taiwan

China State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi speaks during the United Nations Security Council meeting at the United Nations Headquarters to discuss the conflict in Ukraine on September 22, 2022 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said it was … Read more

Fed’s Collins: Still leaning against cutting rates in December amid persistent inflation, labor market risks

Fed’s Collins: Still leaning against cutting rates in December amid persistent inflation, labor market risks

Susan Collins, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Kansas City Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Moran, Wyoming, US, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins … Read more

Holiday Food Everywhere? Here’s Why It Feels Impossible to Resist | Sixty and Me

Holiday Food Everywhere? Here’s Why It Feels Impossible to Resist | Sixty and Me

If you’re a woman over 50, you already know the holidays hit differently now. Not just emotionally. Physically. One minute you’re buying gifts and juggling end-of-year deadlines; the next, you’re wiped out, and standing in your kitchen staring at yet another plate of cookies someone dropped off… and you’re eating one before you even realize … Read more

Post-Retirement Blues – What to Do When the Freedom Feels Empty | Sixty and Me

Post-Retirement Blues – What to Do When the Freedom Feels Empty | Sixty and Me

You’ve been working for decades with this goal in mind – retirement. It’s supposed to be the finish line. The reward for all the early mornings, late nights, deadlines, juggling work and family, etc. And you’re finally here. You should be thrilled, right? Friends tell you how lucky you are to have “nothing to do” … Read more

Trump officials’ meeting with Russian in Miami spurs questions about latest Ukraine proposal

Trump officials’ meeting with Russian in Miami spurs questions about latest Ukraine proposal

Head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Russian special presidential envoy for economic cooperation with foreign countries, Kirill Dmitriev, talks to U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on April 11, 2025. Vyacheslav Prokofyev | Via Reuters U.S. officials and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about a … Read more