As of the closing bell on May 20, the three major stock market indexes — S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average — are all essentially at break-even returns on the year. Under normal circumstances, mundane returns like these might have investors worried. But 2025 has been anything but normal. Over the last several months, financial news has been packed with storylines featuring the potential for a recession, mixed economic indicators, ongoing geopolitical tensions in Europe and the Middle East, and (of course!) tariffs. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe…
Author: Michael Thompson
The market’s recent correction looks like a massive drop on a year-to-date chart. However, it will look far less daunting in a decade; that’s what happens over the long run. Bull markets last longer than downturns. This leads to relatively smooth (though not flawless) northbound trajectories and strong returns for most stocks over a decade or more. Despite recent market volatility, buying shares of top companies that can at least match average returns through 2035 — or do much better — is still worth it. Here are two excellent candidates: Shopify (NASDAQ: SHOP) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX). Where to…
Nearly every company that’s even remotely related to the tech industry is betting that artificial intelligence (AI) will be a key driver of their business in the coming years. This is giving investors a lot of choices when it comes to picking an AI stock. Two companies that have seen their share prices surge recently and are no doubt on some investors’ AI stock short lists are telecommunications giant AT&T (NYSE: T), which is critical to connecting AI devices to the internet, and AI data analytics company Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR). Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team…
Legendary investor and multibillionaire Warren Buffett has spent six decades leading Berkshire Hathaway. The company hasn’t paid a dividend to shareholders for almost its entire existence, but don’t let that trick you into believing that Buffett doesn’t like dividend stocks. In reality, Buffett loves receiving dividends — just not paying them. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Learn More » If you look at Berkshire Hathaway’s $280 billion-plus stock portfolio, the top eight holdings represent about 75% of the portfolio — they all…
by Molly Redden ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When top Trump adviser Stephen Miller threatened on May 9 that the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus in response to an “invasion” from undocumented immigrants, he was operating on a fringe legal theory that a right-wing faction has been working to legitimize for more than a decade. “The Constitution is clear — and that of course is the supreme law of the land — that the privilege of the writ of habeas…
by Nicole Santa Cruz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. When a homeless man questioned the Phoenix police’s authority to stop him in February 2020, an officer grabbed him and knelt on his neck while another officer shocked him with a Taser. Another unhoused man said officers threw away his belongings, telling him, “You guys are trash and this is trash.” Other people experiencing homelessness were regularly cited and arrested by the city’s officers during…
President Trump’s statement appeared to approve a deal linking the U.S. and Japanese steel makers that had been blocked on national security grounds.
by Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Isabelle Senechal and María Inés Zamudio, Invisible Institute A team of reporters from the nonprofit journalism organizations Invisible Institute and ProPublica have reviewed more than 300 sexual assault and misconduct complaints that were filed over the past decade against Chicago police officers. But experts say that’s likely an undercount. We need your help to understand the scope and scale of this issue. We want to talk to people who have experienced sexual misconduct or sexual assault by Chicago police. For this investigation, we defined police sexual misconduct as sexual assault, unwanted, inappropriate touching or comments, and sexual…
by Robert Faturechi, Pratheek Rebala and Brandon Roberts ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration’s trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock. Two days before that so-called “Liberation Day” announcement on April 2, a State Department official sold as much as $50,000 in stock, then bought a similar investment as prices fell. And just before Trump…
House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” on Thursday morning, working through overnight committee meetings, last-minute huddles in the speaker’s office and even a last-minute assist from the president. But while House GOP leadership preached party unity as they passed The One Big Beautiful Bill Act by just one vote, two House Republican holdouts were unwavering in their concerns about the $36 trillion national debt crisis and ultimately voted “no.” Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, took their concerns to social media on Thursday, telling their constituents exactly why they bucked the Republican Party on…