When a friend of mine became a partner at a large brokerage house, I asked him if his newfound dough had bought him happiness. “No,” he said. “But it makes for one hell of a down payment!” I thought about him after reading an interesting, but very sad, front-page item …

I would personally love to take credit for a movie theater chain stopping this nonsense of listing false starting times for flicks. I’ve made this a kind of cause celeb for years on this show. But in reality, the credit goes to you. Like me, you were ticked off when …

And now the most compelling two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: Miss the Grapevine? Watch it! A Lott of Hypocrisy Around?One byproduct of the Trent Lott case is that politicians who have condemned Lott are being reminded of some of their own off-the-cuff ethnic comments. Massachusetts …

Yemen rebels who hijacked an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Red Sea were backed, supported and potentially trained by Iranian authorities, according to a U.S. official. New photos of the helicopter-borne Houthi attack on the Galaxy Leader, a cargo vessel linked to Israeli billionaire Abraham “Rami” Ungar, shows “all the …

Teachers in Portland, Oregon, temporarily shut down a major bridge Tuesday morning as they marched in a strike started roughly three weeks ago. Members of the Portland Association of Teachers union and their supporters stopped in the middle of the Burnside Bridge for about 15 minutes, KGW reported. By 9 …

Things got heated between the head coaches of Marquette and Kansas on Tuesday night during the No. 4 Golden Eagles’ 73-59 win over the No. 1 Jayhawks during the Maui Invitational semifinal. Marquette’s Shaka Smart and Kansas’s Bill Self were seen voicing frustrations with one another after a play cleared …

Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions at public meetings on the proposed financials. She never figured they’d raise property taxes by 57%. “There had never been a mention of that,” said Geidner, a property …

Sudan’s deadly conflict between a powerful paramilitary force and the army has reached a strategic city that had been a haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and key humanitarian groups say they have been forced to suspend work there or flee. On Tuesday, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, leader …

A couple who moved from Colorado to Ecuador six years ago under serious financial hardship has built a business assisting other Americans realize their dreams of living abroad. “I would say that we’ve helped at least a thousand people if not considerably more, and the number is growing,” JP Stonestreet …

A group of doctors protesting the “Genocide in Gaza” canceled a planned event at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 28 after outcry on social media. The group called Doctors Against Genocide, “DAG,” was recently formed in response to Israel’s actions in Gaza, following the Hamas’ terrorist …