Social Security sets its 2026 COLA increase at 2.8%. Here’s what that means for your benefits.

[ad_1] The Social Security Administration on Friday announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment for 2026, an increase that will automatically boost monthly payments for the program’s roughly 71 million beneficiaries starting early next year. The increase represents an uptick from the last year’s cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, which set the 2025 increase at 2.5%. Inflation has edged…

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Fossils reveal dinosaurs were thriving in North America just before being wiped out by asteroid strike, study shows

[ad_1] Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid strike, but it’s only one piece of the global picture, independent experts say. “Dinosaurs were quite diverse and now…

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