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I’ve read that the Social Security Administration offers a lump-sum payment to new retirees who need some extra cash. I haven’t yet filed for my retirement benefits and would like to find out if this ...

Fans of the creative dumplings chef Andrew Lu serves at Get Your Mom & Dim Sum will be happy to hear that he’s expanded into a full kitchen and added to his menu of Chinese dishes in Uptown. With an ...

John Sisk & Son has reached an agreement to acquire Farrans Construction from building materials provider CRH. The Northern Ireland based building and civil engineering contractor has 625 employees, ...

An "astonishingly rare" first edition of The Hobbit has sold for a "record-breaking" £43,000 at auction. The copy of JRR Tolkien's novel is one of only 1,500 copies that were printed in 1937. It was ...

The UK's biggest housebuilders are set to pay a record sum to fund affordable housing after the competition regulator investigated sensitive information sharing among the firms. A total of £100m, paid ...

A moment of pop-punk history took place on the Juno Awards stage this year: Benji and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte inducted Ajax, Ont., band Sum 41 into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The Maddens ...

Old Pension Scheme: In the old pension scheme (OPS), a government employee gets an assured pension, but if they want, they can commute their pension and get a lump sum amount at retirement or a few ...

Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture. Credit...Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan Supported by By Damien Cave Damien covers global affairs. He is based in ...

Chess, a zero-sum game, here seen played at a strategy session at Camp David in 1978 between the Israeli prime minister and the US National Security Advisor. The concept of zero-sum thinking ...