CDs give you guaranteed returns but early withdrawal penalties could cut into your earnings. Getty Images/iStockphoto There’s a lot to like about certificate of deposit (CD) accounts now. Rates remain high, returns are guaranteed and they’re easy to use. Earning more than $1,000 from a CD is as simple as depositing $20,000 into an 18-month CD at … Read more
Former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political acrimony, has died. He was 93. Simpson died early Friday after struggling to recover from a broken hip in December, according to a statement from his family and the Buffalo Bill Center of … Read more
Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country’s mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for those protesting the law, a United Nations report released Friday found. The findings of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran … Read more
Amid stock market uncertainty and other economic concerns, the price of gold hit a record price of $3,000 per ounce on Friday. Getty Images The moment gold investors had long anticipated and many experts had long predicted finally arrived on March 14, when the price of gold broke a landmark price record of $3,000 per … Read more
Federal agencies will begin to vacate hundreds of offices across the country this summer under a frenetic and error-riddled push by Elon Musk’s budget-cutting advisers to terminate leases that they say waste money. The White House’s Department of Government Efficiency, which Musk heads, maintains a list of canceled real estate leases on its website, but … Read more
New DNA technology allows investigator better chance at solving decades old cold cases New DNA technology allows investigator better chance at solving decades old cold cases 02:47 A 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager was released from a Utah jail on Thursday after prosecutors in Honolulu said they weren’t ready to … Read more
When a group of citizens searching for missing relatives in the western state of Jalisco arrived at a remote ranch outside Mexico’s second-largest city last week on an anonymous tip, all they had to do was push open the unlocked gate. Inside they went to work with simple tools — picks, shovels and metal bars … Read more
Former heart surgeon and television host Dr. Mehmet Oz is set to face questions Friday from the Senate’s finance committee over his nomination to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Trump. After Friday’s hearing, the GOP-led finance committee will schedule a vote on whether to send Oz’s nomination to the full … Read more
In the past year, over 135 million passengers traveled to the U.S. from other countries. To infectious disease experts, that represents 135 million chances for an outbreak to begin. To identify and stop the next potential pandemic, government disease detectives have been discreetly searching for viral pathogens in wastewater from airplanes. Experts are worried that … Read more
The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) Hosted by Jane Pauley A protestor holds a banner during a demonstration against the policies of President Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of … Read more