Anne Marie D. Lee is an editor for CBS MoneyWatch. She writes about topics including personal finance, the workplace, travel and social media. Over the past few weeks, information has been ...

The Big Ten Conference announced its men's basketball awards Tuesday, with three players from Illinois earning recognition for the 2024-25 season. Freshman Will Riley (12.2 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 2.3 apg ...

The IHSA boys basketball playoffs are down to the Elite Eight in each of the four classes. Teams take the court tonight in supersectionals across Illinois, aiming to advance to the state ...

What is an economic blackout? The February 28 economic blackout called on consumers to avoid all unnecessary purchases, either in-person or online, from midnight Thursday through midnight Friday.

John Schwarz's movement, The People’s Union USA, is calling for a week-long Amazon boycott from March 7 to March 14 to protest corporate greed and support small businesses. The 'Black-out Friday ...

Nigerians were plunged into darkness on Friday, March 7, 2025, following a major disturbance in the national electricity grid, marking the second collapse of the year. Two major electricity ...

A grassroots movement’s call for Americans not to shop at major chains for 24 hours in an “economic blackout” last week went viral — and now, its organizer is launching a weeklong boycott ...

The Trans Am's first decade on the market was filled with occasional ups and downs, but this iconic model found the perfect timing to have its sales go through the roof. The 1979 model year ...

Ashley Parks is an Associate Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Her focus is on personal finance, particularly covering debt, banking and Gen Z money. Ashley joined Newsweek in 2024 after ...

Giulia Carbonaro is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on the U.S. economy, housing market, property insurance market, local and national politics. She has previously ...

A temporary outage of the US-government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic. Although the disruption does not seem to have ...