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The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage soared to 7.2% this week, its highest in a year and a half. Coupled with home prices near record highs, it’s putting the American dream of owning a home further out of reach for millions. “We…
Comedian Carrot Top has been hospitalized and is recovering, his representative said Saturday. “Mr. Thompson is recovering in the hospital and is receiving the care and support he needs,” his representative Jami Schlicher said in a statement using his real name, Scott Thompson. “His family…
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi announced in a Sept. 19 Instagram video that she is officially cancer-free. The good news comes after the “Jersey Shore” star told fans in February that she was diagnosed with Stage 1 cervical cancer, undergoing a hysterectomy months later to treat the…
Journalists from MS NOW, CNN and Politico were denied access to the White House grounds Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump said on social media that he had banned the news outlets over what he called their “constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS.” “The White House…
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The stabbing of a truck driver at a remote Wyoming rest stop had U.S. Sikhs on edge Friday amid rising anti-immigrant vitriol against the community and its truck drivers in particular. The Sikh victim was attacked from behind early Sunday while…
NEW YORK — The longtime chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced Friday that he is stepping down, days after he was filmed physically restraining two protesters during an altercation at a New York runway show. “I am enormously proud of…
When the Cleveland Browns, the Tennessee Titans and the Atlanta Falcons opened the new NFL season 0-1 last week, it wasn’t a surprise. Each is considered far likelier to contend for the league’s worst record than a playoff berth. Yet entering the season’s second week,…
A small but dedicated group of AI experts has been warning for years that increasingly powerful AI systems could cause catastrophic damage or even lead to human extinction. Now, an explosion of interest worldwide has magnified long-simmering questions about how exactly an AI doomsday scenario…
I’ve spent decades testing, reviewing, and (most importantly) using different to-do list applications. It’s a career, yes, but it’s also a bit of an obsession. And I think we can all admit that most of these apps are way too complicated. A to-do list is…
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. AI doomers have recently traded…