Air traffic control problems continued at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday morning after an equipment issue prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to order a 45-minute ground stop at the New Jersey airport, officials said. The FAA said in a statement that a telecommunications issue at the Philadelphia TRACON (terminal radar approach control) Area C
Financial Pros: Help USA TODAY and Statista determine the winners in our fourth annual survey of top-rated firms, which publishes in April 2026. You can pre-register to take the survey here. Investments always come with risk, but between tariffs, recession worries and overall economic uncertainty, markets have been especially volatile over the past few months. Markets
More than 600 positions have been eliminated from the Federal Student Aid office, internal documents show. Now, in many places, “no one is identifying schools that are failing financially.” WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has made it a top priority to dismantle and reorganize the federal Education Department. Simultaneously, he has promised time and again
The Trump administration is gearing up for major changes to the Department of Education, which, among its other functions, oversees a $1.6 trillion portfolio of student loans — the third largest source of household debt in the U.S. Those loans belong to over 44 million Americans, many of whom are wondering what it would mean
NEW YORK — A gold rush is here. The precious metal hit an all time high this week. The spot price for gold closed Tuesday above $2,514, according to data from FactSet. That’s the highest closing price recorded for the commodity to date. Here’s what you need to know. The spot price of gold closed
A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books. While similar lawsuits have piled up for more than a year against competitor OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, this is the first from writers to target Anthropic and its
Fast-rising singers Boypee, Brown Joel, and Hyce’s hit song ‘Ogechi’, currently embroiled in a copyright debate, have a more profound history than its recent fame. It was released over a decade before they collaborated with Davido for the song remix. The trio’s original version of Ogechi was released on 10 May and gained traction on
Human history is rich and abundant, yet a large part of it is still undiscovered. While we have first-hand entries from great leaders and thinkers, not having found any physical evidence has blurred the lines between history and mythology. However, every once in a while, archaeologists stumble upon something that unblurs these lines. One such
NEW YORK — Former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang was convicted Thursday in a bribe conspiracy case that welled up from from his country’s “ tuna bond ” scandal and swept into a U.S. court. A federal jury in New York delivered the verdict. Chang was accused of accepting payoffs to put his African nation