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Credit card companies, medical providers and more can hire debt collectors to hound you for virtually any kind of debt. Now, these professionals can also collect debt payments by reaching out to you online.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) wants to how money from President Biden's American Rescue Plan is being spent after it voted to close schools and go back to remote classes until the spike in COVID-19 cases "substantially subsides." When President Biden passed the American Rescue Plan in March 2021, Chicago received $1.8 billion in federal COVID-19 relief for the city's schools.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Tuesday announced legislative efforts targeting organized retail theft crime rings.

Average home insurance costs rose 11.4% between 2017 and 2020, outpacing inflation and driving up the price of homeownership for Americans across the country.

Personal finance expert Dan Roccato says it's a great time for workers to know their market value amid the biggest pay raise in a decade.

A new bill in California would reverse Proposition 47 amid rampant shoplifting crimes

While the first Winnie the Pooh story published by author A.A. Milne in 1926 is free for anyone to use for inspiration for new projects, Disney will continue to maintain copyright protection over its own versions of the characters.

Lottery players have a chance to nab the estimated $610 million jackpot, which marks the seventh largest prize in Powerball history.

Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer's Dixie Fire in Northern California that swept through five counties and burned more than 1,300 homes and other buildings, state fire officials said Tuesday.

The new year started for Powerball the way the old year ended, without a winner for the latest drawing.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has some strange quirks, according to claims.

Increased spending on public health preparedness and drilling for potential disaster response scenarios could help states like Virginia handle the next “unprecedented” storm or other calamity, according one expert.

Mortgage rate predictions have changed after the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting last week. Here's what you need to know.

You can pay student loans with a credit card using a balance transfer, but it's best to avoid transferring student debt to a high-interest card. Learn more.

Americans who received the third round of stimulus checks or an advanced child tax credit payment should be on the lookout for two important letters from the Internal Revenue Service.

Eligible households have been using the monthly payment to supplement household spending and pay off debt, data shows. But the future of the child tax credit hangs in the balance as the Biden administration struggles to pass the Build Back Better bill, which would extend the benefit through 2022.

President Biden was criticized for adding legitimacy to Theranos in 2015 after he toured the company's Newark, California facility with its former CEO and called the building a “laboratory of the future” before he expressed optimism about the future of blood testing.

A couple of months ago, a woman paid a visit to Jeff Schrier's used car lot in Omaha, Nebraska. She was on a tight budget, she said, and was desperate for a vehicle to commute to work.