U.S. Census data points to a stark divide between millennials who own homes and those who fear they never will. Millennial homeownership reached an all-time high last year, with 51 percent of millennials owning their own homes. However, one in four said they plan to rent forever. Those who haven't been able to buy said they don't have enough money for a down payment.
RANKING AIRLINES
A new report compiled by WalletHub ranked the best airlines of 2023, Delta took the number one spot. It had the lowest cancellation rates, delayed flights and mishandled baggage incidents. Spirit Airlines was ranked second. The rankings were based on several categories such as price, reliability and comfort.
CHEAP FIRST CLASS
An online glitch affecting Japanese airline All Nippon Airways allowed some lucky travelers to score first-class airline tickets for 20 times cheaper than usual. Flights that usually cost more than $10,000 were sold for as little as $300. The flights were from Indonesia to the Caribbean via Tokyo and New York, and back again. The airline said that the mishap stemmed from an online error that listed the wrong currency conversions.
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day, it was estimated to stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.
UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Wisconsin-La Crosse fired Gow on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, after learning Gow and his wife have been producing and appearing in pornographic videos. Gow maintains the firing violated his free speech rights.
The U.S. military is now putting independent lawyers in charge of its investigations of sexual assault and other major crimes, what Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has called the "most important reform" to the military justice system in recent history.
A decades-old law bans Medicare from paying for weight loss drugs. Now, drugmakers and a wide-ranging bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year.
Barring a court order, in March Texas police will start being able to arrest people they suspect have entered the U.S. illegally, but increases in border crossings since a 2021 law authorizing some arrests shows the limits of that approach in the face of desperation that causes people to risk everything and travel thousands of miles to the U.S.
Mexico began clearing tents, both occupied and unoccupied, from the encampment in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, starting Tuesday.
