Please begin your journey here & ignore all "financial news"
Bogleheads Wiki: Getting Started
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
This wiki is one of the best resources in USA for simple, straightforward, no-nonsense personal finance strategy which has been battle-tested over multiple decades.
Also, there is a very insightful and concise personal finance course at Stanford:
CS007 Personal Finance for Engineers
The course notes/slides are very recently updated (Oct 2023)