Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U.S.

The Powerball jackpot has soared to $1.7 billion, making it the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. Yet the headline figure tells only half the story — if someone wins Saturday’s drawing, the ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A total of 105 tectonic earthquake incidents occurred in West Java, Indonesia, throughout August 2025. Although not all of them were felt by the public, the number recorded by the ...

Northeast Ohio's WBNX TV 55, the sister station of Fox 8, will have a new network affiliation, becoming CW 55 WBNX, Nexstar Media Group announced in a press release. Beginning Sept. 1, Channel 43 will ...

H-1B visa changes 2025: United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called the popular H-1B visa program a “scam”, saying that American businesses should be focused on hiring American workers ...

NEW ORLEANS — Registration for the next round of Louisiana Fortify Homes Program (LFHP) grants opens at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, and closes at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. Participants will be randomly ...

BRANFORD, Conn., Aug. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Azitra, Inc. ("Azitra") (NYSE American: AZTR), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies for precision ...

Experts say the Texas Energy Fund is facing an energy market that makes new power plants more expensive and less profitable. Vistra Corp.’s Midlothian Power Plant. State lawmakers have approved more ...

AbbVie has written the next chapter in its epic quest to treat psychiatric disorders, agreeing to buy a psychedelic drug candidate from Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals for up to $1.2 billion. Bloomberg ...

Learn how to make an easy automatic sugar cane farm in Minecraft 1.20 for both Java and Bedrock Edition. This simple design gives you a steady supply of sugar cane — perfect for rockets, paper, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday terminated a $7 billion grant program that was intended to help pay for residential solar projects for more than 900,000 lower-income U.S. households.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — You have cancer. That’s the devastating news the National Cancer Institute says some 2 million people in the United States will receive this year. It’s a difficult diagnosis to ...