U.S. Budget Deficit Is Projected to Fall to Trillion in 2022
The Congressional Budget Office provided an update on the path for deficits at a moment when the Federal Reserve is trying to cool the economy to tame rapid inflation. Read more...
Homes for Sale in New Jersey and Long Island
This weeks properties are a four-bedroom house in Cherry Hill, N.J., and a four-bedroom in Sands Point, N.Y. Read more...
How a Lone Tenant Is Holding Up a Million Condo Deal
Ahmet Nejat Ozsu has refused to leave his apartment on the Upper West Side, delaying a plan for condominiums. A pandemic remedy for renters could help him prolong the standoff. Read more...
Kourtney Kardashian explores wacky treatments after IVF fail to have a baby with Travis Barker
The 43-year-old Poosh founder was willing to go to nearly any extreme in her fertility journey with Travis Barker, 46, including getting her vagina steamed on The Kardashians. Read more...
Review Belfast Girls Set Sail, but This Isnt a Pleasure Cruise
A historical drama revisits a 19th-century scheme in which Irish girls of good character were encouraged to immigrate to Australia. Read more...
Popular Security Strategies Have Not Stopped School Mass Shootings
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to protect students from school shootings. Massacres keep happening. Read more...
Jarrod Bowen 20 Questions with West Ham's 20
West Ham United star Jarrod Bowen is a busy man with the Hammers' successful season, but West Ham's number 20 took time out to answer 20 questions in this quickfire challenge. Read more...
How to Stop Speeding Drivers in N.Y.C.? Scare Them
Traffic deaths in New York City have risen to the highest level in eight years. A new campaign aims to shock them into slowing down. Read more...
Who Is Protected Against Monkeypox?
Older people who received smallpox vaccinations may yet have some immunity, researchers say. Healthy children and adults generally do not become severely ill. Read more...
Why Republicans Campaign on Guns While Democrats Choose Not To
For Republicans, brandishing firepower is a visual shorthand for hard-core conservatism. Democrats see little gain in highlighting an issue on which their party hasnt been able to get much done. Read more...
Tricky general knowledge quiz will test you on topics including geography, science and culture
A tricky new challenge has been shared on US-based trivia platform Quizly. Players are tasked with answering 24 multiple-choice questions that put their general knowledge to the test. Read more...
Liz Jones's DiaryIn which reality again fails the fantasy
Real life is never as it is portrayed in glossy magazines. And because I spent my life trying to emulate a spread in a glossy, I've been doomed to fail Read more...
Huge asteroid TWICE the size of the Burj Khalifa will pass Earth on Friday
The asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA) measures a whopping 1.1 miles (1.8km) in diameter, and will pass by our planet on Friday. Read more...
Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours
Amid an industrywide downturn, venture investors are preaching austerity and halting new deals, particularly for companies that have spent aggressively on growth. Read more...
Verizon's plan Consumers win, investors lose
Verizon has decided to bring back unlimited data plans. But while that's great for its subscribers, it's awful news for investors. It's another sign of how brutally competitive the telecom business is. And it's hurting Verizon's stock. Read more...