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Cars, trucks and SUVs in the U. S. keep getting older, hitting a record average age of 12.6 years in 2024 as people hang on to their vehicles largely because new ones cost so much. S&P Global Mobility, which tracks state vehicle registration data nationwide, said Wednesday that the average vehicle age grew about two months from last year’s record. But the growth in average age is starting to slow as new vehicle sales start to recover from pandemic-related shortages of parts, including computer chips.

Fast food has long been a staple of American diets because it is, or was, so inexpensive. Not so much anymore. Over the past five years, prices for popular menu items at chains like McDonald’s and Taco Bell have risen dramatically. The cost of a Big Mac or a Chalupa has doubled since 2019, according to archived and current pages of the Fast Food Menu Prices online tracker. Restaurant inflation overall has been significant, though much tamer by comparison, with dining-out prices up 30% on average since 2019. “My New Year’s resolution is to start taking packed lunches instead of getting fast food every day because it’s so ridiculously expensive now,” one Reddit user proclaimed earlier this year. Between 2019 and 2024, the price of a medium fries order has more than doubled from $1.79 to $4.79, and the price of a Big Mac Meal has gone from $5.99 to $12.69, according to the tracker at Fastfoodmenuprices.com.

Donald Trump can’t stop complaining that his fans are being barred from showing their support for him outside the Manhattan courthouse where he’s on trial. On Monday, he told reporters that “they” had brought in extra police to lock down the area around the New York Supreme Court building at 111 Centre Street in Manhattan, specifically to keep his backers away. “And by the way, outside looks like it’s supposed to be Fort Knox.

The owner of Durbin’s restaurants in the southwest suburbs will pay Tinley Park more than $18,000 a month to rent space for a Teehan’s tavern and adjacent restaurant. Tom McAuliffe will lease space in a building the village will construct at Oak Park Avenue and North Street that is part of the larger Harmony Square development. It will include an outdoor music venue and nearby apartments. The building will be at the site of the former Teehan’s and designed to be a nearly identical replacement. Licensing agreements for the space were approved by the Village Board at its meeting Tuesday. Demolition of the former Teehan’s got underway in late March, and the village has estimated it will take a little over a year to have the new space operating. Parade watchers gather outside Teehan’s bar in Tinley Park on March 5, 2023, for the Tinley Park Irish Parade.

Reema Malhotra-Phillips never considered giving up her bank account when she got married last year. “As a woman I think it’s important to have financial independence,” she said, even though “I am planning on being with my husband until the day I die.” When they bought their home in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood, the Phillipses did open a joint account to pay the mortgage and bills.