3+ min ago (413+ words) The Nov. 19 front-page article "Boomers" vast wealth will be hard to replicate" reported that baby boomers hold an estimated $85 trillion in assets. At my 50th high school reunion, I reflected on fortune and fragility. My father helped write Medicaid and Medicare law, and our family benefited from inheritance. Not everyone has that kind of safety net. Fiscal awareness is not optional; it is the lifeblood of democracy. Each day, the dollar in your pocket loses value while Washington funnels wealth upward. Without accountability and restraint, debt and inflation will continue to hollow out the middle class and mortgage the future. We have moved from the Greatest Generation " who understood sacrifice and value " to a society that knows the price of everything and the unintended costs of nothing. Prosperity depends on stewardship of our economy and our environment. Transparency, outrage and reform…...

14+ min ago (265+ words) Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed across the United States on Sunday after a winter storm battered the Midwest over the weekend. About 240 flights into or out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport were canceled as of 11 a.m. ET on Sunday. Another seven were canceled at Midway Airport, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. Hundreds of others were delayed in the Chicago area, one of the country's busiest flight hubs. Another 1,500 flights were canceled on Saturday as heavy snow and strong winds swept across the Chicago region, according to FlightAware data. The winter storm " and the subsequent flight cancellations and delays " come as Americans travel following the Thanksgiving holiday, typically some of the busiest travel days of the year. The Transportation Security Administration had predicted that Sunday would be one of the busiest days in its history. The agency said it would…...

18+ min ago (405+ words) President Donald Trump made a decision that's hurting residents in a stronghold of support that helped propel him to re-election. "It could be tens of millions of dollars left on the backs of the members," said Allan Berg, the CEO of Presque Isle Electric & Gas, known as PIE&G, in northeastern Michigan. Great Lakes Energy, in northwestern Michigan, warned on its website that "all storm-related costs not reimbursed by state or federal disaster aid will be paid for by the cooperative's entire membership." Politico's E&E News obtained documents showing the Trump administration documented $90 million in damage to utility infrastructure, which is about five times the federal threshold to qualify for disaster aid, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency informed Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that assistance was "not warranted." That decision "could make the co-op actually go broke if something…...

19+ min ago (528+ words) A Massachusetts woman gained two long-lost sisters through a DNA test " then tried to net a fortune when she sued them a month later over a malpractice settlement involving their dad. Carmen Thomas, 28, took a 23andMe DNA test in February, 2023 and learned she had two biological sisters, Kali and Abigail Brown, whose father, Joe, died in 2018 from an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm. Joe was 43 when he was admitted to Salem Hospital that January after complaining of pain spreading from his upper abdomen to his chest and back, according to court filings. After Joe spent nearly an entire day of pain and struggling to breathe, doctors determined he was suffering from an aneurysm. But it was too late to save him, and he died the next day. Kali, Abigail and their mother, Kristin, sued the hospital, claiming its failure to diagnose Joe in…...

20+ min ago (1223+ words) Alexa, grab my wallet." Amazon's highly anticipated'Cyber Monday deals'are here early, bringing the best prices of the year on everything from tech to clothing to your favorite skincare " and dare we say, even better prices than Black Friday? (Bonus: No need to fight crowds in stores when you can shop in your PJs from home!) Scroll on to shop a curated roundup of the best sale scores from the online retailer. It's the last, greatest time to save! (Plus, check out our guides to'the rest of the best fashion'and'beauty buys on sale for Cyber Monday.)' Click to jump to a section: Beauty | Tech | Fashion | Home and Kitchen | Fitness Stars and Page Six editors alike get brighter smiles using these top-rated whitening strips. Chrishell Stause and Paige DeSorbo swear by them, with the latter'telling E!'they're the best things ever." Page…...

20+ min ago (1223+ words) Alexa, grab my wallet." Amazon's highly anticipated'Cyber Monday deals'are here early, bringing the best prices of the year on everything from tech to clothing to your favorite skincare " and dare we say, even better prices than Black Friday? (Bonus: No need to fight crowds in stores when you can shop in your PJs from home!) Scroll on to shop a curated roundup of the best sale scores from the online retailer. It's the last, greatest time to save! (Plus, check out our guides to'the rest of the best fashion'and'beauty buys on sale for Cyber Monday.)' Click to jump to a section: Beauty | Tech | Fashion | Home and Kitchen | Fitness Stars and Page Six editors alike get brighter smiles using these top-rated whitening strips. Chrishell Stause and Paige DeSorbo swear by them, with the latter'telling E!'they're the best things ever." Page…...

20+ min ago (468+ words) George Clooney will never forget that he lost a role in "Thelma & Louise" to Brad Pitt. "I got to the final test for a role in'Thelma & Louise." And, motherf'er, Brad got it," Clooney, 64, said about his "Ocean"s Eleven" co-star, 61, in a new interview with The Times UK. Pitt memorably portrayed J.D., the handsome young drifter whom Thelma (Geena Davis) falls for as she experiences marital issues with husband Darryl (Christopher McDonald) in the beloved 1991 film. The role helped launch Pitt"s career into superstardom, while Clooney got his big break a few years later when he was cast in "ER." But Clooney still had a hard time getting over that Pitt beat him to the punch. "I didn"t watch'Thelma & Louise'for years, because I was annoyed," he admitted to The Times UK. "The part launched his career in film. He…...

26+ min ago (448+ words) Surely, someone has made a hash of the plot. Yes, he was 88, but the Czech-born, British playwright, the true 20th century heir to Oscar Wilde, would never have arranged things so banally. "A severe blow to Logic" is how a character describes the death of a philosophy professor in Stoppard's 1972 play "Jumpers." But then, as this polymath wag continues, "The truth to us philosophers, Mr. Crouch, is always an interim judgment " Unlike mystery novels, life does not guarantee a denouement; and if it came, how would one know whether to believe it?" Few people were more agnostically alive than Stoppard, who loved the finer things in life and handsomely earned them with his inexhaustible wit. A man of consummate urbanity who lived like a country squire, he was a sportsman (cricket was his game) and a connoisseur of ideas, which he…...

27+ min ago (460+ words) A color e-reader is a delight. Your digital bookshelf on a device like the Kindle Colorsoft becomes almost as colorful as the ones you have at home, and browsing through a sea of new titles on the shop side becomes much more engaging than a sea of black-and-white. It's a great purchase if you read [] A color e-reader is a delight. Your digital bookshelf on a device like the Kindle Colorsoft becomes almost as colorful as the ones you have at home, and browsing through a sea of new titles on the shop side becomes much more engaging than a sea of black-and-white. It's a great purchase if you read any books that might have illustrations on the pages, or if you like color highlights. Amazon finally came out with color Kindles starting last year, but with the close-to-$300 price…...

29+ min ago (459+ words) Why did it look so much better on the retail store's floor than in my living room?" You're not the only person to have thought that after unboxing a new TV at home. That's because stores jack up the brightness on demonstration TVs to ludicrous levels to catch your attention and draw you over. It's an attention-getter, but it's not the best way to watch your shows, movies, and documentaries. We're not all that different from the chimpanzee mesmerized by a foil pinwheel or a cat who chases after a set of jangling keys. Humans are animals, and more specifically, the kinds of animals who like shiny, bright things. Those retailers selling TVs on their shop floors know this, and all those TVs are sitting in the presence of many other competing, bright, shiny displays under eye-meltingly vivid fluorescent lights....