After years of anticipation and over two months of airtime, House of the Dragon season …

Next year, Social Security benefits will see a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, of 8.7% — the largest since 1981, when the increase hit an all-time high of 11.2%.  “A COLA of 8.7% is extremely rare and would be the highest ever received by most Social Security beneficiaries alive today,” Senior Citizens League policy analyst Mary Johnson said in a statement earlier this year. …

You’ve put in long hours studying for your college midterms and don’t want anyone copying your answers. What do you do? You make a wacky anti-cheating hat that blocks your peers from seeing your test, of course.   Enlarge Image Mary Joy Mandane-Ortiz That’s what students at a school in the Philippines did on the prompting of their teacher, who …