Personal Finance

It’s the first time since May 2024 that 30-year mortgage rates have hit that mark. High rates are adding to the affordability challenges many Americans are facing.

In a new memo obtained by CNBC, a top official at the U.S. Department of Education lays out ways to avoid a wave of new defaults by student loan borrowers.

Why the growing industry creates problems for patients.

For instance, if a US university charges $40,000 per year, the cost in rupees used to be Rs 32 lakh when the exchange rate was 80. However, with the rupee depreciating to 86 a dollar, the same tuition will now cost Rs 34.4 lakh.

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

On the evening of our overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Berlin and on to Dresden aboard the European Sleeper, we enjoy a restorative plate of oysters and steak tartare on the decks of Amsterdam’s BrasserieMarie overlooking the Amstel.

If you're looking for a reliable video doorbell that can help protect your home and packages and comes with the bonus of local storage, let me introduce you to the Eufy Security Video Doorbell E340.   This doorbell camera will also send real-time notifications of motion to your mobile device.

Have you noticed that there’s a lot of stuff on TV lately? I don’t mean sitcoms and dramas. I mean stuff. Matter. Material. Substances. Particularly in opening title sequences of TV series, where all manner of effluvia flows, wends and re-forms, through the magic of C.G.I.

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Delia Cai is filling in as Prudie for Jenée Desmond-Harris while she’s on parental leave. Submit questions here. I HATE my husband’s dog. I know how that sounds, so hear me out… I am a dog person! I’ve had dogs my whole life.

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