Newspapers announced John D. Rockefeller as the first U.S. billionaire 109 years ago. Today there are more than 900 American billionaires.

On Sept. 29, 1916, it was front page news that a surge in Standard Oil's stock price likely made oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller America's first billionaire. More than a century later, the United ...

When Jared Kushner met Henry Kissinger in 2016, he prepared a memo for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, distilling the ...

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' (Italian for 'Saviour of the World') was created circa 1500, but was sold for the hefty ...

Colorado officials do not not expect to see major impacts on Colorado-run programs or its workforce for the first week of the federal shutdown, though the state stands to feel the strain, particularly ...

The Morality-Evidence Gap The conventional wisdom across time and space is to demonise the rich and romanticise the poor and blame their misery on the exploitation by the rich. Yet, what the evidence ...

NBC News is laying off roughly 7-8% of its staff, about 100-150 employees, many of them part of the network's "diversity ...

“Rockefeller Rich” still rolls off the tongue better, but Elon Musk can now be considered the wealthiest person who’s ever lived after Forbes’s new ranking. Forbes in a new calculation on Wednesday ...

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Vice President JD Vance brushed off outrage over President Donald Trump sharing a video meme depicting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero, saying he was confused by claims it was ...

The White House is weighing Ukraine's request for long-range Tomahawk missiles to defend the country against Russian forces, Vice President JD Vance said Sunday. "We're certainly looking at a number ...