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You Overspent on Christmas - Now What? What went wrong? Put your mind on rewind and go back a few months. How come you spent so much? Did you run out of cash before you got to the end of your list, so you started charging? Did you feel pressured to make sure the kids weren’t disappointed? Perhaps you didn’t anticipate expenses beyond buying gifts -- things like extra food for entertaining, tickets to the pageant, travel to your inlaws’ ...

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell has been here before. It was a full decade ago that he had been stung by a string of 2012 Senate losses that left him short of the majority he would eventually claim in 2014.

An Illinois hobby group is wondering if one of the unidentified flying objects shot out of the sky by a jet fighter’s sidewinder missile might have been their humble radio-equipped balloon. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade declared one of its exploratory “pico balloons” missing Wednesday, according to Aviation Week.

WASHINGTON – How old is too old? Launching her 2024 campaign, Nikki Haley took a potshot at both the 80-year-old incumbent, Joe Biden, and her former boss, 76-year-old Donald Trump – insinuating they’re mentally impaired, and demanding they and the rest of their generation prove they don’t have dementia before holding office. “America is not past our prime.

A past COVID-19 infection offers “durable,” temporary protection against getting severely sick with the coronavirus — no matter the variant, a new study has found. Though natural immunity against COVID-19 offers protections, the findings don’t discourage vaccination, which is still the top method of preventing serious illness, experts involved in the research say.

DETROIT — More details emerged Thursday about the five Michigan State University students wounded in a deadly shooting rampage Monday on campus, including improvements among some of the hospitalized.

The U.S. is sending its top China defense official to Taiwan in the coming days, according to the Financial Times — though it’s unclear how Beijing will respond given the softer tone it has adopted in its diplomacy with the U.S. and allies recently.