Electric vehicles were in short supply last year as the average cost of gasoline topped $5 a gallon. But now is a good time for drivers considering an EV to make the leap, according to car experts. Here’s why. Dealerships have more cars Years ago, buying an EV usually meant …

More than 800,000 borrowers with $39 billion in federal student loans will get their debt forgiven, the Biden administration said on Friday.  The Department of Education said it will begin notifying borrowers today about the automatic discharge of their debt, which will occur in the next few weeks.  The debt …

Shopify has unveiled a new tool for its more than 11,000 employees that assigns a cost to scheduled meetings in an effort to reduce unnecessary gatherings. The Shopify Meeting Cost Calculator is a Chrome extension that shows the estimated cost of any meeting with three or more attendees once it’s …

A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar at a federal penitentiary in Florida said the disgraced former sports doctor provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while they were watching a Wimbledon tennis match on TV, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The inmate, identified …

The Justice Department on Tuesday reversed its position that former President Donald Trump was shielded from a 2019 defamation lawsuit filed by the writer E. Jean Carroll. The government had originally argued that Trump was protected from liability by the Westfall Act, because he was acting as a federal employee. …

A judge on Tuesday prohibited several federal agencies and officials of the Biden administration from working with social media companies about “protected speech,” a decision called “a blow to censorship” by one of the Republican officials whose lawsuit prompted the ruling. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted the …

Competitive eating champ Joey Chestnut gulps down dozens of hot dogs each Fourth of July at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest — and comes back do it again year after year. But no one really knows what long-term impacts it might have on his body or the bodies of …

Insuring your home or other property against major disasters may become more expensive this year as the price insurance companies pay for their own coverage continues to climb.  Reinsurers, or the companies that cover policies for insurers, have upped the price they charge insurance companies by as much as 50% …

Nine people were wounded and two others suffered “traumatic injuries” in a shooting at a Wichita, Kansas, nightclub, officials said.  The shooting happened shortly before 1 a.m. local time Sunday at City Nightz. Police officers heard screaming followed by a “large number of people” leaving the club, police officials said …

A New York appeals court dismissed Ivanka Trump on Tuesday from a wide-ranging fraud lawsuit brought against her father and his company last year by the state’s attorney general. The civil lawsuit, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, accused former President Trump of padding his net worth by …