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Credit One Bank reports that a survey reveals 50% of U.S. consumers misunderstand credit scores, impacting financial decisions negatively. Skillit reports that 60% of Americans now value trade skills ...

The Trump administration's criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appeared Monday to embolden defenders of the U.S. central bank against President Donald Trump's efforts to ...

Backers of a cable transit system that would carry people from Butte to Our Lady of the Rockies hope to raise $5 million over ...

Five years ago, video images from a Minneapolis street showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd as his ...

Mattel says it developed the new Barbie in partnership with a nonprofit organization that advocates for the rights and better ...

Eakin served as economic advisor to President George W. Bush. He says the criminal investigation of Fed chair Jerome Powell ...

A group of Buddhist monks is getting viral attention with their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas, to ...

Two riders were reportedly southeast of Afton on a slope at 8,800 feet when the snowmobiler was struck and buried about 2 ...

Idris Elba in "Hijack" and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reuniting in “The Rip” are among the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

These are the Billings Gazette's top stories for January 12, 2026.

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