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Olivia Wilde’s former home is ready for a new owner. The Los Angeles house that the actress-director once called home is currently on the market for $4.8 million. Realtors Patricia Ruben and Alan Melkonyan of Sotheby’s International Realty hold the listing. Built in 1929, the Spanish-style home features four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms over 3,284...

The Mega Millions jackpot jumped to an estimated $800 million after no tickets matched the winning numbers during Friday night’s drawing. The winning numbers drawn on Friday were 6, 23, 41, 59 and 63 with a Mega ball of 25. The Megaplier was 2X. Nobody won the estimated $740 million jackpot Friday night, but five...

The new August jobs report shows employment numbers of U.S.-born workers and foreign-born workers going on two very different trajectories.  Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an arm of the Department of Labor, shows native-born Americans lost more than 1.3 million jobs over the last 12 months, while foreign-born workers gained more than...

Today’s jobs report was weaker than expected. It was soft and soggy.  Once again, past months were revised down. Why are all these jobs evaporating? Remember, the Bureau of Labor Statistics evaporated over 800,000 jobs in their latest benchmark revision.  Actually, today’s number for non-farm payrolls isn’t really 142,000, which was lighter than expected. It’s...

Federal authorities hit a North Carolina man with charges arising from allegations that he fraudulently earned streaming royalties through a scheme involving bots and AI-generated songs.   The man, identified by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as Michael Smith, faces wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy counts. ...

U.S. hiring picked up in August but not as much as economists had forecasted.   Stocks sank for the week with September off to a rocky start for investors ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting later this week.  Deal danger: Both Alberstons and Kroger, as well as U.S. Steel and Nippon, are warning of consequences...

New Jersey auction company Goldin has noted some record-breaking sales during its most recent events. One highly anticipated auction item, a game-used Logoman patch card signed by Kobe Bryant, sold for a whopping $1,584,643 at the Goldin 100 auction. In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, Goldin founder and CEO Ken Goldin called this...

Job growth ticked up in August even though it fell short of economists’ expectations as job losses in industries like manufacturing and retail partially offset other sectors’ gains. Employers added 142,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday. That fell short of the 160,000 gain forecast by LSEG...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) launched an investigation into rewards programs at the four largest airlines over “potential unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive practices.”  U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg sent letters to American, Delta, Southwest and United Airlines requiring them to hand over records with detailed information about their rewards programs, practices and policies.  The...

While both former President Donald Trump and the Biden-Harris administration have voiced opposition to the proposed takeover of U.S. Steel by Japan-based Nippon, one top economic expert and a local Pittsburgh official said on Friday that many such concerns are unfounded. “This is the best deal,” said Sam DeMarco III, the GOP chair in Allegheny...