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Average US rate on a 30-year mortgage edges higher, ending a seven-week slide

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. edged higher this week, ending a seven-week slide that helped ease borrowing costs for home shoppers leading in...

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FORTUNATELY FOR CNN, NOBODY’S WATCHING: ‘Fact-Check’ Lee Zeldin’s EPA Orders, and Holy Crap, Does It

FORTUNATELY FOR CNN, NOBODY’S WATCHING: ‘Fact-Check’ Lee Zeldin’s EPA Orders, and Holy Crap, Does It End in Embarrassment. Another media “fact check” face plant where the fact checker doesn’t ha...

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Jamie Dimon sends curt 6-word response to tariff war

People have gotten uneasy about the U.S. economy. Uncertainty is building after a series of news reports concerning inflation and jobs, and after forecasts suggest U.S. economic activity is slowing...

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The Spectacle Ep. 202: It’s Getting Increasingly Weirder — Elon Musk, Canada, and Mahmoud Khalil

The attacks on Elon Musk’s businesses — from X’s cyberattack to violence on Tesla vehicles — indicate a strange feeling that is only increasing. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts...

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Man, 91, conned out of entire life savings of £32,000 by rogue traders

Allan, 91, was targeted by rogue traders at his home in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, in December (Picture: Getty Images) Imagine losing all of your life savings. This happened to a 9...

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Lexa Gates Is Ready to Fly After ‘Elite Vessel’ & Has Serious Pop Ambitions: ‘I’m Just Getting Started’

Lexa Gates is ready to leave her “normal life” behind, and the 23-year-old’s not stopping until she’s sleeping in a mansion and hitting the “Lexa jig” on private ...

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What’s Up With Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert’s Messy Divorce?

Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images The couple that caused widespread bi panic after starring in the Flashdance-themed music video for Kanye West’s 2016 song “Fade” ...

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‘These Strikes Are a Good Example of Why We Shouldn’t Just Succumb to Despair’CounterSpin interview with Eric Blanc on worker-to-worker organizing

Janine Jackson interviewed Rutgers University’s Eric Blanc about worker-to-worker organizing as a key force of resistance for the March 7, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited tra...

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Down, down

Down, down. The prime at the Big Banks is 4.95%, effective this morning. Not so long ago it stood at 7.2%. Inflation used to be 8.1%. Now it’s 1.9%. Five-year mortgages that were 6.5% are now po...

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Man Utd files: Two-horse La Liga race for Antony amid concerns Sir Jim Ratcliffe transfer rant could lead to PSR woe

MANCHESTER UNITED are once again looking to return to their former glory with a summer revamp planned. ...

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Pet whisperer blames cockapoo Ebony for getting ITSELF run over while she dog sat – as owner launches £30k legal fight

A PET whisperer has blamed a cockapoo for getting itself mown down by a car while in her care. Beloved dog Ebony suffered serious spinal injuries after being run over by ...

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One Mighty kro; One Giant Leap for Kubernetes Resource Orchestration

kro — which we spell lowercase like a Linux command-line tool and pronounce “crow” like the bird — extends Kubernetes core capabilities to simplify the management of interdependent Kubernetes res...

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The Healthcare System in Cuba

In the heart of the Cuban capital, the Dr. Cosme Ordoñez Carceller Teaching Polyclinic stands as a testament to the nation’s unique approach to healthcare: universal, free of charge, accessible, re...

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Silicon Labs Unveils the Tiny BG29 Bluetooth Low Energy Microcontrollers — for Smart Teeth and More

Silicon Labs has announced the BG29 family of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless microcontrollers — boasting of an extremely small package size suitable for wearables and even, the company says, "...

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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Management: What’s the Difference?

It’s best to have a management style in place before attempting to carve out a piece of the marketplace or execute a big project. Two of the most popular approaches are top-down and bottom-up manag...

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The Trump Administration Is Upending the AI Race. What Does That Mean for Music?

Last month, Vice President J.D. Vance represented the U.S. at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris. In a speech addressing top leaders from around t...

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Trump Loses It After Wall Street Journal Trashes His Economic Policies

Donald Trump railed against The Wall Street Journal Thursday, after the paper revealed that business leaders were being two-faced about the president’s disastrous tariffs. “The Globalist Wall Stree...

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Visualizing the Global Stock Market by Sector

See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization The Global Stock Market by Sector in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free ...

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Musk’s Madisonian Insight—And Its Troubling Consequences

Elon Musk’s assertion of power over some of the government’s largest and most sensitive data systems isn’t merely a contravention of American statutory law, administrative norms, and individual pri...

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Inflation eases in February, but Trump tariffs could derail progress

Annual inflation increased to 2.8% in February, an unexpected decline from 3.0% in January, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).Inflation in...

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Nippon Steel Could Be a Shining Legacy for Donald Trump

Modern presidents have few opportunities for signature achievements to cement their legacies. But in the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump has the opportunity to make one of...

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