As the U.S. Treasury phases out the use of the penny, it’s creating a host of new challenges for businesses and consumers that could cost all of us a good chunk of change. That’s because eliminating ...

Alonda Emery can’t figure out what she’d call that thing sitting in the corner of her place of employment, the Flameburger in Little Canada. For all of her 42 years, she’s known the machines as penny ...

Washington, D.C. has played host to some of America’s most historic events. Inaugurations, marches, state visits, and funerals are familiar moments in the nation’s capital. There was another “funeral” ...

Robert Hoff was amazed the first time he saw a coin press machine in action in the 1970s. Hoff was in his twenties when a person passed him while carrying the machine and watched as they pressed ...

The penny received a “funeral” on Saturday, attended by mourners and Abraham Lincoln impersonators outside the Lincoln Memorial, after the U.S. Mint discontinued the coin last month. Hundreds attended ...

Penny mourners are gathering for a funeral in Washington, DC, for the discontinued cent at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Dec. 20, just over a month after the United States stopped producing the ...

Former NBA star Penny Hardaway now devotes most of his time to the film room, practice and the sideline while guiding the Memphis men’s basketball team. Hardaway, in his eighth year coaching the ...

The United States said goodbye to the penny a few weeks back. Now that the familiar copper coin is no longer being minted, the Federal Reserve is considering another item for the chopping block.

The penny was first minted in 1793, per the auctioneers. America's smallest coins just brought in some big bucks. Pennies from the final minted set of the coin sold for over $16.76 million at auction ...

To those who argue that the U.S. penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ. Today In History, January 1: Ellis Island opens Trump vilifies Kennedy family hours after Tatiana Schlossberg’s ...

The Federal Reserve is considering winding down the checking services it provides for banks, according to CNN. The Fed provides an array of check processing and monitoring services that are critical ...

The mourners had taken their seats. Many were dressed in black. Others wore veils and large hoop skirts, reminiscent of Victorian-era fashion. When the clock struck 1:01 p.m. (a time, organizers said, ...