Growing up in Cookeville, Tennessee, a university town about 80 miles east of Nashville, Hayley Furcean was determined to be the first college graduate in her family. “I’ve always been the smart kid,” she says....
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — The battle between two supposed directors of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is making for compelling optics but only seems to be delaying a tidal shift at the powerful consumer watchdog. Mick...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are struggling to win over resistant GOP senators to a sweeping tax bill that President Donald Trump and their party have set as a vital political goal. Trump, who has assured lawmakers there will...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — Owners of the Trump International Hotel in Panama are working to strip President Donald Trump’s name from the 70-story building and fire the hotel management company run by Trump’s family. The...
Read MoreLONDON (AP) — Britain’s biggest banks are strong enough to withstand a “hard Brexit” and could even weather a deeper recession than the one they struggled through during the global financial crisis nearly a...
Read MoreTOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday following a sluggish post-Thanksgiving trading session on Wall Street. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was nearly unchanged at 22,486.24. Australia’s...
Read MoreKARANGASEM, Indonesia (AP) — A volcano gushing towering columns of ash closed the airport on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali for a second day Tuesday, disrupting travel for tens of thousands, as authorities renewed their...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — Jerome Powell says that if confirmed as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, he expects the Fed to continue raising interest rates gradually to support its twin goals of maximum employment and stable...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — A plane has clipped wings with another plane while taxiing at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration says the right wing of EgyptAir Flight 986, a Boeing 777...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — More than 100 passengers have been rescued from a ferry that ran aground in New York’s East River. Police say it happened Monday evening just off a pier near the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan. The...
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