As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump has ordered the end of the penny.

Ending production of the penny makes sense, a consensus of area coin collectors and business owners told TribLive after a ...

but would have lifted 0.2 per cent without the scheme. Conveniently those schemes end on June 30 – a month after the May deadline for an election. The RBA has warned that while the scheme has ...

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Under current rules, local authorities are not allowed to increase their tax bills by more than 4.99 per cent without the approval of the government. They can request to raise more by threatening ...

Current rules state that local authorities cannot increase council tax by more than 4.99 per cent without a local referendum. But Cheshire East Council - which takes in Congleton and Alsager - has ...

Odours are first captured by special olfactory nerve cells inside your nose. These cells extend upwards from the roof of your nose towards the smell-processing centre of your brain, called the ...

In a post on X Tuesday night, the Elon Musk-run group pointed out that a penny now costs three cents to make - triple its value. That cost taxpayers a whopping $179 million in fiscal year 2023 ...

"The president is the tip of the spear and he's been active in ... his exchanges with the media are often free-flowing, without any aides selecting reporters to ask questions.

Billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has a new target in its sights for trimming federal spending: the U.S. penny. In Tuesday X post, Musk's DOGE wrote that the U.S. spends ...

The penny featured the same image of Lincoln as it does today but from 1905-1958, the reverse side was marked with two sheaves of wheat. These wheat pennies have become highly collectible and in ...