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Federal Reserve lifts interest rates another 0.75 percentage point

The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate another three-quarters of a percentage point as it battles the hottest inflation in decades.  The move by the central bank’s rate-setting committee, announced Wednesday after a two-day meeting, marks the sixth rate hike this year and the fourth consecutive 0.75 percentage point …

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Winning numbers for $1 billion Powerball jackpot announced

11/2 Update: If no one has tonight’s Powerball numbers, the jackpot could grow to a record-breaking amount The winning numbers for Monday night’s Powerball drawing are: 13-19-36-39-59 and a Powerball 13. The estimated jackpot had surged to just under $1 billion, the second highest prize in the game’s history. People showed …

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Global WhatsApp outage resolved

Tech giant Meta says it’s resolved a WhatsApp outage that turned out to be brief. It had prevented many of the billions of users of the popular service from connecting or sending messages. Meta issued a statement to CBS News saying, “We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp …

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