Lego made its first appearance at CES 2026 and showed off a new Smart Brick, which changes colors, emits sound effects, and ...

With the penny officially phased out in 2025, younger generations are bringing back "vintage" tech like point-and-shoot ...

Despite renewed online chatter, no federal agency or congressional leader has announced or confirmed any plan to distribute new stimulus payments this year. Without approval from Congress or the ...

Months after the federal government stopped issuing and accepting paper checks for most of its business, the Federal Reserve announced it’s considering a slowdown of those services as well. In a ...

First the penny. Next, paper checks? When the US Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper ...

Darwin Quiroz is exploring new frontiers in miniature lasers with major biomedical applications. When Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic ...

You get a check! And you get a check! Free checks of up to $400 began being sent out to millions of New Yorkers on Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced. Some 8.2 million eligible households across the ...

PHOENIX — The checks are in the mail, finally. That’s the message from the state Department of Administration this week to about 800 Arizonans who were counting on getting their child support, child ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has implemented numerous changes to its operations since the Donald Trump administration began back in January 2025. But later this year, the SSA will ...

The Trump administration will soon stop sending out paper checks for Social Security beneficiaries, as part of an effort to fully modernize federal benefits payments. That means a little over half a ...

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley introduced legislation Monday to provide tariff rebate checks of at least $600 per adult and child to American families, similar to the stimulus checks the government ...