
Some medical debt is being removed from US credit reports
Help is coming for many people struggling with medical debt on credit reports. Starting Friday, the three major U.S. credit reporting companies will stop counting paid medical debt on their reports, which banks and others […]

NC, Colonial Pipeline reach agreement on handling fuel spill
RALEIGH — Colonial Pipeline has agreed to a consent order which says it should be held accountable for a gasoline spill in a North Carolina nature preserve that was found to be far worse than […]

US consumer confidence tested as economic anxiety grows
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. consumers were less confident again in June as persistent inflation and rising interest rates have Americans as pessimistic as they’ve been about the future in almost a decade. The Conference Board […]

G-7 nations place ban on Russian gold
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Russia appears to have defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the U.S. and its allies are taking aim at the former Soviet Union’s […]

NLRB’s top prosecutor seeks big changes, faces uphill battle
As workers at major companies increasingly move to unionize, the political environment for labor couldn’t be more ripe. Perhaps nowhere is that more accurate than at the National Labor Relations Board, the agency that enforces […]

Justices side with doctors convicted in pain pill schemes
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for doctors who face criminal charges for overprescribing powerful pain medication in a case arising from the opioid addiction crisis. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the […]