The highest outstanding student debt in the UK has topped more than £250,000, figures obtained by Money show. One student now owes £252,554, a record high labelled "truly alarming" by the ...

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday she expects the U.S. will officially run up against its borrowing limit in mid- to late-January, starting the clock on a major fiscal challenge facing ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department is likely to begin taking special accounting maneuvers sometime in mid-January to avoid breaching the US debt limit, and urged lawmakers to take ...

Although President-elect Donald Trump wanted to start 2025 without having to worry about the debt ceiling, he did not get his wish. Addressing the debt ceiling, which will be reinstated on January ...

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting ...

The Treasury secretary urged Congress to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by raising the debt limit. By Alan Rappeport Alan Rappeport has covered debt limit fights during the ...

According to latest data from the New York Federal Reserve, total household debt in the United States has reached $17.94 trillion. This highlights the growing financial pressures faced by many ...

A bus driver who wielded a knife as he chased a group of youths who threw snowballs at him has been fined £300. Preston Lodowica, 53, had stopped at Killingworth Shopping Centre, in North ...

As the U.S. Congress scrambled to come up with a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump shocked many lawmakers by demanding that any such bill must also ...

President-elect Donald Trump confounded members of Congress and flipped the government spending debate on its head when he demanded a premature increase to the debt ceiling on “Biden’s watch ...