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What the Federal Reserve rate cut means for you 12/10/2025 03:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the third time since September, bringing its key rate to about 3.6%, the lowest in nearly three years. Before September, it had gone nine months without a cut. The benchmark rate is the rate at wh Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros., challenging a $72 billion offer by Netflix 12/10/2025 02:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount on Monday launched a hostile takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, initiating a potentially bruising battle with rival bidder Netflix to buy the company behind HBO, CNN and a famed movie studio along with the power to reshape much of the nation's entertainment landsc U.S. News Money Surveys 2025: 6 Responses That Caught Our Eye 12/09/2025 07:00pm • Each year, the U.S. News money team conducts regular surveys focusing on a range of financial topics. These surveys help inform our reporting and gauge the financial health, habits and attitudes of Americans from year to year. We ask savers to reveal their emergency fund balance. We ask homebuyers w What the Fed Rate Cut Means for Credit Cards 12/09/2025 07:00pm • The Federal Reserve has cut rates for the third and final time this year. At its Dec. 10 meeting, the Fed reduced rates by 0.25 of a percentage point, making the new federal funds rate 3.5% to 3.75%. This move doesn't come as a surprise to a lot of economists, with many predicting the Fed was going Mexican president says Mexico will send more water to US but not immediately 12/09/2025 05:02pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that her country intends to send more water to the United States, but not immediately, even as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to raise tariffs by 5% on Mexican imports if more water is not delivered as part of a water-shari French lawmakers narrowly approve health care budget, suspending Macron's flagship pension reform 12/09/2025 03:04pm • PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of parliament narrowly approved on Tuesday a key health care budget bill, offering the minority government some relief from political turmoil at the cost of suspending President Emmanuel Macron's flagship pension reform. The bill passed by 247 votes in favor wh German leader says US strategy shows the need for more European security independence 12/09/2025 01:21pm • BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that the Trump administration's new national security strategy underscores the need for Europe to become “much more independent” from the United States in terms of security policy. Merz also pushed back against the notion that Europea European leaders agree to fund Ukraine for 2 years but using Russian assets poses a major test 12/09/2025 12:11pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — Almost four years into Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, European Union leaders have committed to funding Kyiv’s economic and military needs for the next two years, one way or another. Ukraine is desperate and needs the money by early 2026. At a summit next week, the 27 EU le South Carolina's abandoned nuclear plants could be revived as company offers $2.7 billion 12/09/2025 12:05pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s stalled nuclear power project could finally finish construction as a private company has offered to pay $2.7 billion to the state-owned utility and a small share of the power if they can reach an agreement to get the two reactors up and running. The half-bu What to know about Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery 12/09/2025 10:16am • NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. Discovery's friendly agreement to sell itself to Netflix just got upended by a hostile actor -- Paramount, which made Warner shareholders a higher offer and touched off what is likely to be a lengthy fight in the latest episode of media industry consolidation. The bid Protesting Greek farmers swarm onto airport tarmac in Crete, forcing halt to flights 12/08/2025 08:48pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Angry farmers protesting delays in the payment of subsidies swarmed onto the aircraft parking area of the international airport on the southern Greek island of Crete on Monday, managing to evade riot police who used tear gas and stun grenades to keep them back. Images from lo 7 Best Treasury ETFs to Buy Now 12/08/2025 07:00pm • The U.S. Treasury Department, which oversees federal borrowing and manages the nation's debt, recently posted on X highlighting that U.S. Treasurys are on pace for their strongest year since 2020. The post compared annual returns from 2020 through 2025 and framed the rebound as a reward for investor 7 Types of Stocks to Buy if Interest Rates Decline 12/08/2025 07:00pm • After a period of elevated borrowing costs, the Federal Reserve switched gears in September 2024, cutting interest rates for the first time since 2020. Following two 0.25-percentage-point rate cuts in fall 2025, the Fed is widely expected to make another quarter-point cut at the end of its two-day p Wall Street pulls back from its record heights 12/08/2025 05:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks pulled away from their record heights on Monday. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% for just its second loss in the last 11 days, but it remains within 0.6% of its all-time high set in October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 215 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq comp UN Palestinian aid agency says Israeli police 'forcibly entered' its Jerusalem compound 12/08/2025 02:16pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police forcibly entered the compound of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem early Monday, escalating a campaign against the organization that has been banned from operating on Israeli territory. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestin