The proportion of the global population living on less than $1.90 per person per day has fallen—from 18 percent in 2008 to 11 percent in 2013, according to the World Bank. In the United States, however, the poverty rate has been more stubborn—41 million people lived below the country’s poverty line in 2016, about 13…

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1 hour ago In Parliament today, legislation is expected to be introduced to tackle rip off energy tariffs for 11 million British households.    The Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill would allow Ofgem to limit tariffs until 2020, with the option to extend the cap annually until 2023. Theresa May said the Bill,…

« Let me emphasize that there was nothing aberrational about stock-market behavior over the ten-year stretch. If a poll of investment ‘experts’ had been asked late in 2007 for a forecast of long-term common-stock returns, their guesses would have likely averaged close to the 8.5% actually delivered by the S&P 500. Making money in that environment…

House Chaplain Patrick J. Conroy leads the Republican team in a prayer before the Congressional Baseball Game on June 15, 2017, in Washington, DC. A critic of President Trump opened fire on US lawmakers practicing for the event, seriously wounding a congressman and three others before he was killed by police.

Manchester City have won the League Cup for a fifth time – only Liverpool have won it more oftenPep Guardiola secured his first trophy as Manchester City manager as they overpowered Arsenal to win the Carabao Cup in convincing fashion at Wembley. City responded to Monday’s shock FA Cup fifth-round defeat by League One Wigan…

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — From volunteers to support staff to the joint Korea women’s hockey team, people from many cultures bid farewell to each other and to the 2018 Winter Olympics on Monday as a swath of the eastern Korean Peninsula readied itself for something novel: relative normalcy. Seven years after a successful Olympic…