Lifestyle and Budget

How Trump tax plan would alter mortgage interest deduction

Each year, taxpayers subsidize America's homeowners by roughly $70 billion, with the benefits flowing disproportionately to coastal areas with high incomes and pricey homes, from New York and Washington to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Wildfires ravage California's wine country

A deadly inferno is engulfing California’s wine country as thousands are evacuating the region, while one of the Golden State’s biggest export businesses is under assault.

White House to order health care alternatives

The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed efforts by Congress to overhaul the health care system.