Diageo Settles Disputes With Rapper Diddy

[ad_1] Jan. 16, 2024 10:24 am ET Diageo said it has reached an agreement with Sean “Diddy” Combs, after the rapper accused the group of racial discrimination and alleged it…

Young Black Americans Embrace the Stock Market

[ad_1] Listen to article (2 minutes) Young Black Americans are among the fastest-growing segments of stock-market investors. Nearly 40% of Black Americans owned stocks in 2022, up from just under…

Nicaragua Expels 19 Imprisoned Catholic Clerics to Vatican

[ad_1] Nicaragua on Sunday released a group of 19 clergymen from prison, including Bishop Rolando Álvarez, the country’s most prominent political prisoner, and expelled them to the Vatican. The government…

Brazil Embraces Its Black Roots

[ad_1] RIO DE JANEIRO—Growing up in Rocinha, one of Brazil’s biggest slums, Maxwell Alexandre was reluctant to call himself Black. His mother, a Black woman herself, would have none of…

GOP Negotiator James Lankford Tries to Solve Border ‘Rubik’s Cube’

[ad_1] Updated Jan. 13, 2024 12:21 pm ET Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma has taken on one of Congress’s most thankless and politically risky jobs: leading negotiations to overhaul…

U.S. Claims Texas Is Blocking Border Patrol From Busy Migrant Crossing Area

[ad_1] EAGLE PASS, Texas—State officials here are blocking federal Border Patrol agents from accessing a busy section of the U.S.-Mexico border, the federal government has alleged in a new legal…

Opinion | Blocking the Road Is Civil Terrorism

[ad_1] The anti-Israel demonstrators who have blocked traffic in major cities across the country know that their victims are decent people. There is little risk that the drivers who can’t…

For Fleeing Palestinians, Gaza Has Shrunk—by Two-Thirds

[ad_1] Listen to article (2 minutes) Shadia Abu Middin had fled Israel’s war against Hamas twice. Then on Dec. 31, Israel told the 44-year-old mother of four in Gaza to…

Can Retirees Keep Splurging? Don’t Count on It

[ad_1] Older Americans’ spending has been helped by a healthy increase in Social Security incomes, but this year’s boost will be much smaller. [ad_2] Source link

How to Lower Your Tax Bill With the Charitable-Donation Deduction

[ad_1] Are fewer taxpayers deducting charitable contributions than in the past? Yes. The 2017 tax overhaul dramatically reduced the number of filers deducting charitable donations. While it didn’t limit them…