Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, along with a few other folks, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for his role in deciding how the world handled major crises such as the 2008 recession and the COVID-19 pandemic.
A survey from a leading retail trade group finds that inflation is making it harder for middle-class households to cover their expenses as the winter holidays loom.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) technical report on the current monkeypox outbreak expressed "moderate confidence" that the U.S. is "likely experiencing spread within a defined sub-population."