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You work your whole life to get ahead. Stash away enough money for your house, your family, your vacations.

A heat wave is affecting parts of the U.S., including much of the Southwest, through the Southeast and parts of Europe. When temperatures soar, the heat can take a toll more than just physically. Our well-being can suffer as well.

In recent months ominous ads about prescription drugs have flooded the TV airwaves. Perhaps by design, it’s not always clear who’s sponsoring the ads or why.

After months of drama that divided the state’s top leaders, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will soon sign property tax relief legislation that fulfills his top campaign promise.

The Supreme Court justices are getting testy with one another. As the court’s conservative revolution proceeds, the tone of the court’s opinions is getting increasingly confrontational — and increasingly personal. Extreme decisions are provoking extreme reactions. The leak of the Dobbs opinion last year, and the court’s botched investigation into…

Q: Your answer to C.W. about A/C in a hot car is, like her solution, only part right. When a car is parked all day in the sun, the air inside can easily reach 120 degrees. You need to get that air out quick, replaced with the cooler outside air.…

DALLAS -- Kathy Schneider was afraid to be alone. She struggled to go into bathrooms and couldn’t get out of the car at the store with her husband.

After months of teetering on the edge, it seems inflation is declining steadily, to the point where the specter of mega-price jumps erasing savings and putting families at risk of destitution is fading, with the Consumer Price Index falling from 4% to 3% last month.

With the Screen Actors Guild having now joined the Writers Guild of America in a walkout, the actors and writers of most of the nation’s film and television projects are striking together for the first time since 1960 (when SAG was helmed by a charismatic actor named Ronald Reagan).

If there is anybody in America who deserves to finally retire, it’s the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

We may be alike in that you, too, believed frog jumping contests had gone the way of Mark Twain, steamboats and rotary dial telephones.