On Nov. 1, Michelle Higgs plans to check the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace portal and see how much more she will pay next year if Congress fails to extend enhanced subsidies. She estimates that her current plan, which also covers her husband and two young children, would increase by more than $2,000 per…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell poured cold water on hopes for a holiday rate cut, dialing back expectations as the labor market cools and inflation persists. Powell said a December cut is far from guaranteed. Even as the central bank on Oct. 29 trimmed its benchmark federal funds rate to a range of 3.75% to…
WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump heads into a high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Oct. 30 seeking to finalize a trade deal that investors and American soybean farmers hope ease tensions between the world’s two largest superpowers. The meeting between Trump and Xi in Gyeongju, South Korea ‒ capping the U.S. president’s five-day…
Can schools in Ohio legally confiscate or search students’ cell phone? In Ohio, state lawmakers voted this year to prohibit cell phone use during the school day under most circumstances. Each school district, community school, and STEM school must adopt a policy by Jan. 1 prohibiting students’ use of cell phones during the instructional day, with some…
Sia is responding to estranged husband Daniel Bernad‘s “outrageous” filing for full physical and legal custody of their toddler son. The 49-year-old “Titanium” singer said Bernad’s emergency child custody request “should be denied in its entirety” because he “provides zero evidence” that their one-year-old son Somersault “Summi” Bernad’s safety is “at risk,” according to an…
White House officials fired all six members of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, a federal agency which would have been tasked with advising on the design elements of the new $300 million White House ballroom championed by President Donald Trump. The move comes just a week after the entire East Wing was demolished to…
This story has been updated with new information. A 13-year-old has been arrested and charged with vandalism in connection with the newly installed Marty Brennaman statue outside the Great American Ballpark, officials said. Cincinnati police announced the charges in an Oct. 28 statement. They did not specify the gender of the person involved. The statue…
Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Melissa is forecast to slam the southern coast of Jamaica on the morning of Oct. 28 with sustained winds of up to 175 mph, even higher gusts and a life-threatening storm surge, leaving a wake of destruction across the island before focusing its ferocity on southeastern Cuba. Torrential downpours that could produce…
Milwaukee police shut down bars on Brady Street in the early morning of Sunday, Oct. 26, due to large crowds. The Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement that officers “observed unusually large crowds of individuals participating in the Brady Street Halloween Party” around midnight between Oct. 25 and Oct. 26. Police said officers responded…
A 4-year-old boy died after being ejected from a car in a Coleman County crash Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a media release. The crash happened at about 5:35 p.m. Monday at U.S. Highway 84 and County Road 464 in rain and wet road conditions, the DPS said. Michelle Warden Callisto,…