According to recent Department of Labor data, many families have been essentially paying a second rent check to send their children to day care. Although it is well known that child care prices have severely strained households nationwide, the federal data demonstrates how sharply these costs increased from county to county during the greatest inflation in four decades. In 2022, the most recent year for which data is available, families' average spending for full-day care for each child ranged from $6,552 to as high as $15,600. According to the organization, the maximum level is several hundred dollars higher than the typical yearly rent for that year. Although incomes vary greatly across the nation, households generally spend between 9% and 16% of their yearly income on day care for each ...

Thanksgiving dinner is more reasonably priced than it has been in years, even though you might not notice it by looking at the sticker pricing in the grocery aisles. According to a statewide poll of supermarket prices conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation, which represents millions of U.S. farmers, the expected cost of this year's holiday feast is $58.08 for a 10-person gathering, or $5.81 per head. This is the lowest amount since 2021 and a 5% decrease from last year. However, when inflation is taken into account, the situation gets much better. With the exception of the 2020 outlier, the authors stated that this would be the least expensive Thanksgiving meal in the 39-year history of the AFBF Thanksgiving survey if your dollar had the same total purchasing power as a customer ...

A teenage sensation from India will face a taciturn assassin from China in one of the largest sports events in the world, but the greatest of all time from Norway will not be present. This week marks the beginning of the 2024 World Chess Championship, which will pit the current champion Ding Liren of China against 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju of India. Even while it is still regarded as the game's main event, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the five-time champion who chose not to defend his title in 2022, is conspicuously absent. Grandmaster David Howell, Carlsen's close friend and one of the official match commentators in Singapore, said this year's world championship is remarkable but still has a special place in the chess world. According to Howell, it has long been the only element that dist...

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, congressional Republicans and former Trump appointees have been preparing their response to the movement against Israel's war in Gaza for the past year. They warn that protest organizers, activists, and those who assist them in raising funds may be subject to a barrage of federal investigations and potential indictments. A glimpse of the federal statutes that a second Trump administration would employ when conducting investigations and possible prosecutions is given by an NBC News analysis of congressional hearings and letters as well as lawsuits brought by groups headed by former Trump officials. Several legal actions are most likely to be taken after Trump comes to Washington, based on what has been pushed thus far. One would be deporting inter...

A senior official stated on Sunday that the Philippines Security Council will investigate a purported threat of assassination made by Vice President Sara Duterte against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., characterizing it as a national security issue. In a forceful morning briefing on Saturday, Duterte claimed that she had communicated with an assassin and given them instructions to kill Marcos, his wife, and the speaker of the Philippine House if she were to be assassinated. Eduardo Ano, the national security adviser, stated that the government takes any threats against the president seriously and promised to cooperate closely with the intelligence and law enforcement organizations to look into the threat and potential offenders. According to a statement from Ano, all threats against the pr...

Paris Some are wearing hard work boots, most are wearing jeans, and one is singing while carrying a white construction helmet under his arm. They are gathered in the church hall in front of the altar, and their music starts out softly before sweeping through the Gothic-style church and up to the high stone ceiling. Though the team of architects, stonemasons, archaeologists, art historians, art conservators, and others have assisted in rebuilding Paris Notre-Dame cathedral after a fire destroyed the famous French Gothic masterpiece over five years ago, the 80-member choir has joined together for more than just singing. "It felt natural to start a choir with hundreds of people working to rebuild a structure so closely tied to French art, history, and culture," said Stephanie Duchne, a chem...

Washington Many Justice Department career lawyers were relieved when Matt Gaetz abruptly withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general on Thursday. However, a few hours later, Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a staunch supporter of the former president who supported his false claims regarding the 2020 election and claimed that awful individuals in the department were attempting to gain notoriety by attacking Donald Trump and using our legal system as a weapon. It is now hoped that Todd Blanche, the president-elect's defense attorney and Trump's choice for the crucial No. 2 job at the Justice Department, will help shield the department's career civil servants from Trump's fury. His prior experience as a career federal prosecutor in the So...

Former Oklahoma U.S. Senator Fred Harris, a populist and presidential candidate who supported Democratic Party reforms during the turbulent 1960s, passed away on Saturday. He was ninety-four. The Associated Press received confirmation of Harris's passing from his wife, Margaret Elliston. Although his cause of death was not immediately known, he had been a resident of Corrales, New Mexico, since 1976. Early this morning, Fred Harris died quietly from natural causes. He was ninety-four. He was a great, well-liked individual. In a text message, Elliston stated that his memory is a blessing. Harris was elected to the Senate in 1964 to fill a vacancy and served for eight years. In 1976, he made an unsuccessful attempt to become president. As the Democratic National Committee's chairman in 1969 ...

In what Israel described as an antisemitic murder, a missing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi was discovered dead in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday. The killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who has been missing in the Gulf state since Thursday, was described by the Israeli government as a "criminal antisemitic terrorist event." According to a statement made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his nation "will deal with the criminals responsible for his death to the fullest extent of the law." Suspicions that Kogan had been abducted were immediately raised by his disappearance. He represented Chabad Lubavitch, a prominent New York-based Orthodox Jewish Hasidic organization, in Abu Dhabi. We regret to inform you that Rabbi Zvi Kogan, the Chabad-Lubavitch envoy to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ...

LAS VEGAS Under the brilliant lights of Sin City, Max Verstappen secured his fourth Formula 1 world championship on Saturday night, solidifying his place among the sport's luminaries. With two races and a "sprint" left in the 2024 season, the 27-year-old Red Bull driver only needed to finish ahead of his only championship challenger, McLaren's Lando Norris, to remove him from contention and win the trophy. Norris came in sixth, and he came in fifth. Verstappen joins a select group of drivers that includes Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, and Juan Manuel Fangio as the sixth driver in Formula One history to win four world titles. Man, oh God. Verstappen stated over team radio, still in his car, "What a season." Four times! Many thanks... We made it throug...