Faster income growth for top U.S. earners has eroded Social Security's tax base, fueling calls to raise or eliminate the ...

Elon Musk’s potential new status as a trillionaire demonstrates in real time why there has been such a rapid rise in the concentration of wealth at the top. Credit...Nicolas Ortega Supported by By ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To billionaire and gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer, every problem can be solved by a tax increase. In a recent op-ed in these very pages, Steyer said ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

CHICAGO RIDGE, Ill. (WGN) — As temperatures rise, rodent sightings are increasing in communities across the Chicago area. In south suburban Chicago Ridge, residents say they’ve never seen it this bad.

As temperatures rise, rodent sightings are increasing in communities across the Chicago area. In south suburban Chicago Ridge, residents say they’ve never seen it this bad. So they called WGN's ...

Rising U.S. Treasury yields have altered the outlook on when the next interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve might come. Traders on prediction market platform Kalshi think there's a 63% chance a ...

The Producer Price Index (PPI) increased 1.4% in April from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis. Economists had only expected the PPI to rise 0.5%. On a year-over-year basis, the PPI is ...