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Mortgage and refinance interest rates today, September 9, 2025: Why rates are on a deep slide before the Fed meeting
Laura Grace Tarpley
Mortgage rates continue a substantial decline. According to Zillow, the current 30-year mortgage rate is 6.12%, down eight basis points since Friday. The 15-year fixed interest rate fell four basis p ...[Continue Reading]
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Debit Cards Are Taking Over
Michael Waters
Sometime around 2007, Marc Fusaro, then a professor at East Carolina University, sat in a friends kitchen and explained that he was researching the methods people use to rein in their credit-card sp ...[Continue Reading]
The Atlantic
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Jerusalem shooting escalates collective punishment acts
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Quotable Read moreMustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, says Israel is using a shooting in occupied East Jerusalem to justify greater collective punishment....[Continue Reading]
Al Jazeera English
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LeBron: Hoops can bridge U.S.-China tensions
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HONG KONG -- NBA great LeBron James wrote a rare op-ed in Chinese state media this week, pointing to basketball as an avenue for diplomacy amid tensions with the U.S. Writing in Monday's edition of ...[Continue Reading]
ESPN
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Israeli strike targets senior Hamas leadership in Qatar
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Israel has carried out a strike targeting the senior leadership of Hamas in Qatar's capital, Doha. A Hamas official told the BBC that members of the Palestinian armed group's negotiating team were t ...[Continue Reading]
BBC News
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A Psychopathic Partner Just Might Make You More Successful
Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP
In general, its not all that desirable to have a partner high in psychopathy. After all, these are individuals who will use you to their advantage, lie, cheat, andworst of allshow no remorse. Maybe e ...[Continue Reading]
Psychology Today
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