Credit card companies want to turn your unused credit line into cash that you can borrow for things like home improvements or unexpected expenses. But accepting this loan offer may not be the best choice for your wallet or your credit score.
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The Israeli military is accusing Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah of stepping up attempts to build missile-production facilities in Lebanon and says these efforts are putting Lebanese civilians in danger.
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The U.S. economic landscape would look even bleaker if not for America’s consumers.
The economy slowed in the spring, and many analysts think the weakness will continue in the months ahead.
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It seemed like a new era in the half-century battle against the deadly toll of tobacco: U.S. health officials for the first time would begin regulating cigarettes, chew and other products responsible for a half-million American deaths annually.
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The number of people killed by drivers running red lights has hit a 10-year high, and AAA is urging drivers and pedestrians to use caution at traffic signals.
In 2017, the latest figures available, 939 people were killed by vehicles blowing through red lights, according to a AAA study of government crash data.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s personal assistant unexpectedly stepped down Thursday after the President learned she was leaking information to the media.
According to the New York Times, Madeleine Westerhout is accused of leaking private information about Trump’s family and Oval Office operations.

Hezbollah now claims that in order to prevent death and injuries, the IDF is using mannequins in jeeps patrolling the Lebanese border.
Ali Shoeib, who works for Hezbollah’s Al-Manar news network, published the photos and said that the IDF fears an attack, and are using the dummies instead of soldiers.

Caught in the crossfire of a trade war, American businesses operating in China say they’ve been hurt by the hostilities between the world’s two biggest economies and are facing increasingly unfair competition from Chinese firms.
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Satellite images appear to show the smoldering remains of a rocket at an Iranian space center that was to conduct a U.S.-criticized satellite launch.
The satellite pictures were taken Thursday morning of the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran’s Semnan province.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. plans to reduce the number of American troops in Afghanistan by more than half to 8,600 and then will determine further drawdowns.
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